Victorian
Voices of the Night
Former pickpocket and secret murderess Maggie King has run afoul of London’s most notorious criminal. She and her “chavies,” the…
Companions of Paradise
Continuing the saga of A Singular Hostage and A Beggar at the Gate, Englishwoman Mariana Givens has been separated from…
Death Called to the Bar
In February 1902, during a feast at the Inns of Court, a senior barrister mysteriously dies. When a second man…
Vashti
When two assistant curators die unexpectedly of gastric influenza, Tansy Clark’s retired policeman father asks her to investigate, and she…
Angelica
Nothing is as it seems in internationally bestselling author Phillips’ third novel. Set in Victorian England, this tale of the…
The Mesmerist
Editors' choice
As Queen Victoria comes to the throne, the mysterious Mrs. Cordelia du Pont begins her meteoric rise to fame and…
The Wayward Muse
In every era, artists have naturally banded together—the Bloomsbury Group in the 1920s, the Rat Pack in the 1960s, and…
Nobody’s Child
Valerie Wood is very good at what she does, with a specific style which permeates all her books. Nobody’s Child…
Last Stand at Majuba Hill
Inside John Wilcox is there a factual historian struggling to get out? In their fourth outing, Simon Fonthill and 352…
The Limehouse Text
Thomas Llewelyn works for the Victorian enquiry agent Cyrus Baker, a mysterious man versed in the Oriental arts, with links…
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