Victorian
Victorian Tales: The Twisted Tunnels
London, March 1843. Jenny and her Granddad are toshers, that is, scavengers in the sewers, a dangerous and smelly job,…
A Lady Never Lies
Italy, 1890. When investment losses decimate her fortune, Lady Alexandra Morley rents a remote Tuscan castle to get away from…
Victorian Tales: The Fabulous Flyer
Paris, 1852. Henri Giffard, who works in a railway workshop, has invented an incredible new machine. It’s a hydrogen balloon…
The Missing Italian Girl
Although the book is billed as third in the Bernard Martin mystery series, the lead character is Bernard’s wife, Clarie.…
Twice a Bride
Willow Peterson is a young, attractive, kind-hearted, and devout widow making a life for herself in 1898 Cripple Creek, Colorado.…
Dark Passage
During the 1890s Depression in Australia, Nicola Redmond’s father commits suicide, unable to face financial ruin, leaving her and her…
The Balloonist
It’s seldom you read a book that’s both funny and terrifying, deeply unsettling and deeply satisfying, all at once. The…
The Exhibitionists
The Exhibitionists is an interesting fictional account of the lives of several famous Victorian artists: Turner, Holman Hunt, Rossetti, Millais…
The Lost Casebooks of Sherlock Holmes: Three Volumes of Detection and Suspense
Few fictional characters continue to populate new novels after the demise of their creator-authors. Arthur Conan Doyle attempted (twice) to…
The Typewriter Girl
Betsey Dobson is a vibrant, unconventional flower in a garden of hothouse heroines. The cover of this book, which depicts…
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