Victorian
Courting Shadows
One would be hard-pressed to find a more unpleasant protagonist than John Stannard. A young architect commissioned in 1881 to…
The Third Circle
In Leona Hewitt’s desperation to get back the aurora stone, a crystal that was stolen from her mother, she dresses…
The Ghost Map : A Street, A City, An Epidemic and the Hidden Power of Urban Networks
THE GHOST MAP: A Street, A City, An Epidemic and the Hidden Power of Urban In 1854 a cholera epidemic…
Private Arrangements
In 1893 London, a perfect marriage among the aristocratic elite was hard to find, with one notable exception: that…
Joe Rat
1866. Joe Rat, a ‘tosher’ who scavenges in the London sewers, is in thrall to ‘Mother’, who controls her…
Women of Pemberley
Between 1848 and 1858, the characters of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and their many descendants sort themselves out. We…
Yorkshire Rose
Presumably this will go on the romance shelves in libraries, but it is more a woman’s coming-of-age story than a…
The Dark Lantern
Editors' choice
Brightwell has fashioned a multilayered, Upstairs Downstairs-type mystery that drew me in completely. When I finally paused to reflect, I…
Cover the Mirrors
Preston, 1856, and spiritualism is very popular in Victorian England. Molly Pinner, born into the town’s slums, was orphaned at…
A Fatal Waltz
Vienna! “For the connoisseur of the waltz, there is no better place,” pens Lady Emily Ashton in the very beginning…
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