18th Century
The Three Deaths of Giovanni Fumiani
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After an awkward start, this investigation of a 1706 “accidental” death develops into a true page-turner. Stefano Bigio, through no fault of his own, ...Read Review
So Close to Heaven
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This powerful novel tells the little-known story of Sister Magdalena, the cellarin of Sabiona Abbey, in the Austrian Tyrol. It is a place ...Read Review
Maddalena and the Dark
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In 1717 Venice, two girls, Maddalena and Luisa, secretly share a bed at the Ospedale della Pietà, home for foundlings and music school for ...Read Review
A Novel Disguise (A Lady Librarian Mystery)
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A clever play on Regency-style novels, this book is a murder mystery including, as the title suggests, gender disguise—in a complicated version. ...Read Review
What We Leave Behind (Sammy and Facey, 2)
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Grave robbers Sammy and Facey dig for their living amid the squalor of 18th-century London. Carrying contraband liquor into Portsmouth Harbour, Sammy and ...Read Review
Scarlet
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In 1793 England and France, vampires represent the aristocracy, but in France, peasant-trampling has led to revolution and the king’s execution. All Eleanor ...Read Review
Her Own Legacy (Château de Verzat)
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Joliette de Verzat, a young noblewoman just before the French Revolution, loves her family’s vineyard and wants to continue her late grandmother’...Read Review
The Rose and the Thistle
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The lead-up to the 1715 Jacobite Rising is the backdrop to Frantz’s latest Scottish romance. We fall easily into her 18th-century world, set ...Read Review
Her Lost Words: A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley
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While Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley each stand alone for their contributions to feminism and fiction respectively, there’s something about their being ...Read Review
Thunder of Guns (The Long Fuse)
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This is book seven in The Long Fuse series. In 1758, Pennsylvanian Ephraim Weber, 22, is an ensign in the British colonial army during the ...Read Review
