Jane Kessler
Foxfire
This novel, first published in 1951, is set in New York City and the Arizona in the 1930s. Amanda Lawrence,…
A Mending at the Edge
This is the final installment in a trilogy about the life of Emma Wagner Giesy, the first woman of the…
The Darcy Connection
Elizabeth Aston is the author of four previous novels about the daughters and other relations of Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth…
Shadow Waltz
This is the third in a series featuring mystery writer and amateur sleuth Marjorie McClelland. It’s 1935 in Ridgebury,…
Cotillion
This story, by the woman credited with establishing the Regency romance subgenre, was originally published in 1953. Young Kitty Charing…
Blood and Circuses
This is the 6th in a series of sixteen mysteries Kerry Greenwood has written featuring the Honourable Phryne Fisher, a…
The Bone Garden
This story begins in present-day Boston, where Julia Hamill is newly divorced. While working in the overgrown garden of her…
Red Thunder
After British dragoons led by the notorious Colonel Banastre Tarleton destroyed his family’s farm, stole all their cows, and wounded…
Kiss Me Goodbye: Finding Love Among the Ashes of the Civil War
In 1861, the author’s great-grandfather, James McCormick, is an Irish Catholic immigrant who lives in Potsdam, New York. He is…
The Conjurer
This historical mystery is set in Philadelphia in 1842. Martha Beale is the sheltered, unmarried daughter of a wealthy financier,…
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