Jeanne Greene
A Lady Never Lies
Italy, 1890. When investment losses decimate her fortune, Lady Alexandra Morley rents a remote Tuscan castle to get away from…
The Loss of the Marion
The Marion is one of many Newfoundland fishing schooners bound for the Grand Banks in 1915; each bears its skipper’s…
Summerset Abbey
In the first of a series set in England before World War I, Prudence Tate, an orphan, shares the loving…
Beguiling the Beauty
Venetia is a London widow who, rumors say, caused her first husband’s death and married her second, an older man…
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…
Come the Fear
In 1733, Leeds is home to pimps, kidnappers, and thieves, apparently beneath the notice of increasingly wealthy wool merchants—but not…
Man in the Blue Moon
Man in the Blue Moon, which was inspired by a real incident, turns fact into powerful, highly original fiction. Readers…
Live by Night
Editors' choice
Live by Night is the powerful story of a kid from a good family who becomes a petty crook, goes…
The Girl on the Cliff
Riley’s second novel uses a familiar but intriguing device in which secrets of long ago impact a love story today.…
Atlantic Fever: Lindbergh, His Competitors, and the Race to Cross the Atlantic
The Orteig prize of $25,000 (approximately $330,000 today) was established in 1919 to award the first pilot to cross the…
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