Victorian
Until We Reach Home
Life’s vicissitudes have conspired to force Elin, Sofia and Kirsten Carlson to do the unimaginable, to leave the land they…
The Scandalous Life Of The Lawless Sisters: Criminally Illustrated With What Was To Hand
Using cartoon illustrations from Punch, January-December 1880, Philip Ardagh has concocted a rollicking tale involving a group of Victorian ladies…
The Long Walk Home
Not being a fan of Catherine Cookson, I was a little dismayed when the publisher’s details proclaimed this book to…
Murder Most Welcome
Charlotte Richmond is an outwardly grieving Victorian widow who comes to live with her husband’s family. Her husband’s apparent death…
A Dangerous Affair
A Dangerous Affair, an elegant mystery novel set in early Victorian London, is the second installment in a series involving…
A Conspiracy of Ravens
In this second Lady Trent novel, 1850s Victorian London finds Lady Serafina Trent working once again with Dylan Tremayne. This…
Wobble to Death
It is a cold November morning in 1879 and a dozen ‘pedestrians’ in silk drawers and white tights gather at…
The Detective Wore Silk Drawers
The second of Peter Lovesey’s Victorian mysteries (now reissued) plunges Sergeant Cribb and Constable Thackery into the underworld of bare-knuckled…
The DeVere Papers
The De Vere Papers is set in 1868, at a fictional college in Cambridge. The papers in question throw doubt…
The Empty Mirror: A Viennese Mystery
A young country girl, model and lover of painter Gustav Klimt, is viciously murdered in 1898 Vienna. Klimt, the bête…
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