Victorian
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…
Bloody Winter
Bloody Winter has two protagonists, and each tells his story in alternating chapters. The first narrator is the series’ Detective…
The Dark Unwinding
Editors' choice
Ever since her father died at sea, Katherine Tulman has known her place in the world. She acts as account-keeper…
In Need of a Good Wife
Clara Bixby’s marriage is in ruins. Her husband left her after she had a miscarriage, leaving Clara to grieve and…
An Heiress at Heart
In 1846, siblings Lizzie and Tom Poole journey to New South Wales, fleeing scandal in England. There, they meet and…
The Newgate Jig
Set in the same era and very much in the same style as her earlier novel, Walking in Pimlico, which…
In the Land of the Long White Cloud
Editors' choice
In the Land of the Long White Cloud reminded me what it was like to get lost, really lost, in…
Between Love and Honor
The book’s prologue is written much like the opening scene of a movie. A bleak flat landscape, divided by a…
The Return of Moriarty
Considering the current popularity in historical fiction of revisiting classic stories and characters, the decision to reprint John Gardner’s 1974…
The Lost Souls of Angelkov
When Cossacks kidnap Countess Antonia Mitlovsky’s son, Misha, from the grounds of the Angelkov estate one snowy day in 1861,…
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