Gilded Age
Murder in Chinatown: A Gaslight Mystery
The murder of a lovely young Chinese-Irish-American girl from an affluent Chinatown family, shortly after her elopement with a handsome…
Every Past Thing
When Pamela Thompson saw Edwin Romanzo Elmer’s painting, Mourning Picture, she saw “worlds that want telling.” This book is her…
Cold Cache
Kent Rasmussen, an officer of the North West Mounted Police, is leaving the force to return home to his mother…
Canaan
The American Civil War has ended, and the nation begins to heal itself from four torturous years. Canaan is about…
Afternoons with Emily
This novel, which echoes of the style of some novels of the 19th century, immediately enveloped me, and it has…
Revealed
Just past Denver at the foot of the Rocky Mountains in 1870, Annabelle Grayson’s husband died, leaving her once more…
Murder in the North End
In this fifth mystery featuring Nell Sweeney, Detective Colin Cook is wanted for the murder of a man in the…
A Dead Language
Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton is the naval lieutenant who abandons Madam Butterfly in Puccini’s famous opera. A Dead Language, sequel to…
Hawk’s Pursuit
The third volume of O’Banyon’s Hawk Crest saga finds the youngest of four children, eleven-year-old Jena Leigh, in mortal danger…
The Gods of Newport
In Gilded Age Newport, wealth and social status are all; wars are fought on tennis courts and in ballrooms; and…
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