Trudi E. Jacobson
Not Yet Drown’d
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Catherine MacDonald, a young Scottish widow who has temporarily settled into the Edinburgh home of her older brother, finds her…
The Serpent’s Tale
Adelia Aguilar is still in England after her detecting adventures as chronicled in Mistress of the Art of Death. King…
Remembered
Véronique Girard’s mother has recently died, and it transpires that Lord Marchand, both her and her mother’s employer, has arranged…
Voyage
This young adult novel, first published in 1983, follows the lives of a number of mostly Jewish immigrants who are…
Death of a Dutch Uncle
When Laurens de Noyes dies on Boston Common, right at the feet of Increase “Creasy” Cotton, a minister and cousin…
Rashi’s Daughters, Book II: Miriam
Rashi, living in Troyes, France, in the latter half of the 11th century, was one of Judaism’s greatest scholars.Troyes at…
A Wicked Gentleman
This is the first book in Feather’s new Cavendish Square trilogy, which features three friends who come to London to…
Woman of Ill Fame
Nora Simms, a prostitute, sails to San Francisco in 1849, hoping to do well for herself during the gold rush.…
Afternoons with Emily
This novel, which echoes of the style of some novels of the 19th century, immediately enveloped me, and it has…
A Needle in the Right Hand of God
This book is subtitled The Norman Conquest of 1066 and the Making and Meaning of the Bayeux Tapestry. While the…
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