Victorian
Love in Disguise
Carol Cox has once again crafted a delightful story with elements of adventure, romance, and humor. In Chicago, 1881, Ellie…
The Broken Lands
Walker and Bones arrive on Coney Island to subvert both New York City and Brooklyn to their evil purposes. Few…
The Brontës: Wild Genius on the Moors: The Story of a Literary Family
Juliet Barker has impeccable credentials to write a definitive history of the Brontës. As curator to the Brontë Parsonage Museum…
The Bride Wore Pearls
The St. James Society, a gentleman’s club in mid-19th-century London, is in reality a cover for the Fraternitas Aureae Crucis…
A Sunless Sea
Early on a November morning in 1864, while rowing from his duties on the Thames, William Monk of the River…
Elijah’s Mermaid
Editors' choice
There is always a fear that an author’s second novel will not live up to the first. I was very…
The Secret Archives of Sherlock Holmes
June Thomson has published a number of these pastiches of the famous stories of Arthur Conan Doyle. They all consist…
Ripper
With a mother as a governess, Abbie moved between Dublin’s good society and its poorer residents, learning how to make…
Moments Captured
Nineteenth-century photographer Edward Muybridge, whose mentor was Civil War photographer Mathew Brady, set up a traveling studio in a Conestoga…
Incarnation
Lucy Weston wakes up from a compelling dream – to find herself in a coffin with a stake through her…
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