Victorian
The Kingdom of Bones
Tom Sayers, a former boxer and a member of a British theater troupe, is accused of the serial murders of…
Rogue Officer
This is the fifth book in the ‘Fancy Jack’ Crossman series, following the adventures of a British soldier through the…
The Pleasure Trap
From childhood, Eve Dearing has been haunted by her mother’s death. She and her mother shared the gift of “sight,”…
The Traitors’ Gate
Charles Dickens is alive and well. Well, sort of; at least his spirit lives on in bestselling author Avi’s latest…
The Coal Gatherer
Callie is one of many children born to Mary and Ebeneezer Ingram, fisher-folk who scratch a precarious and impoverished living…
The Journal of Dora Damage
Editors' choice
Dora Damage has a name straight from Dickens, and in fact her tale would not be out of place in…
Delsie
Delsie Sommers reluctantly agrees to marry a dying man at the request of his family. In exchange for a home…
The Riddle of the River
1898. Cambridge. In this, the fifth of the Vanessa Weatherburn mysteries, a beautiful young girl is discovered floating in the…
The Diamond Frontier
In 1880, in the South African province of the Transvaal, Simon Fonthill and his sidekick “352” Jenkins are on a…
The Best of Sisters
Sagas, the comfy slippers of reading matter. Nothing demanding in style or content, but a good book for bedtime or…
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