Victorian
A Gentleman Never Tells
The hero and heroine of this jauntily-paced, romantic novel set in 1890 have a history. Elizabeth Harewood and Lord Roland…
A Christmas Garland
This year’s holiday mystery from Anne Perry takes place in mid-nineteenth century India. A desperate and bloody rebellion has just…
The Pigeon Pie Mystery
Princess “Mink” is left destitute after the sudden death of her father — a displaced Maharaja — in a scandalous…
Philida
Philida is a knitting girl, a slave in the household of Cornelis Brink whose job is to knit clothes for…
Light Falling on Bamboo
My mother-in-law asked me recently what to call fictionalized biographies of famous historical figures. Historical novels, I said, thinking of…
The Silver Thread
Inspired by a real historical artefact, The Rajan Quilt, sewn by women convicts on their way to Australia, this novel…
Charles Dickens in Love
Garnett’s aim is to put the women Charles Dickens loved—Maria Beadnell, two Hogarth sisters (neither of them his wife), and…
Two Sinful Secrets
Lady Sophia Huntington has been ostracized by her family and widowed after a brief marriage. Forced to fend for herself,…
Death in the Floating City
In Tasha Alexander’s most recent addition to her Lady Emily mystery series, we find the delightful Lady Emily Hargreaves accompanied…
A Death in the Small Hours
In Finch’s sixth Victorian mystery involving gentleman sleuth Charles Lenox (after A Burial at Sea, 2011), the former private investigator…
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