18th Century

The Fire Kimono

By Laura Joh Rowland - Published 2009

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Tokyo, March, 1700: a storm uproots a huge tree near a Shinto shrine, nearly injuring an elderly priest and uncovering a royal corpse. The ...Read Review

The Cemetery of Secrets

By David Hewson - Published 2009

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In the cemetery of San Michele a corpse is exhumed. Rizzo has been paid to supervise this grisly task and remove from the ...Read Review

The Fields of Fortune

By Jessica Stirling - Published 2010

Genres:

RomanceSaga

The Fields of Fortune is the latest work of the prolific Jessica Stirling. The book’s theme is not uncommon, but Ms. Stirling ...Read Review

The Demon Redcoat

By C. C. Finlay - Published 2009

Genres:

Historical Fantasy

In this third book in the Traitor to the Crown series, Proctor Brown is still fighting the Covenant, the slippery organization that is ...Read Review

The Queen’s Dollmaker

By Christine Trent - Published 2009

Genres:

Romance

Trent marries the story of a talented dollmaker to the fate of the French queen, Marie Antoinette, who will eventually lose her head ...Read Review

The Pale Assassin

By Patricia Elliott - Published 2009

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Eugenie de Boncoeur is a typical 14-year-old aristocrat in France during its Revolution: unaware and frivolous. Although her portrayal is historically accurate, modern ...Read Review

New Bern: 1710 in the Carolinas

By Jimmy C. Waters - Published 2009

Genres:

Saga

This novel, dealing with the early settlers of New Bern in the Carolinas, some of whom include the author’s ancestors, is plainly ...Read Review

I Was Jane Austen’s Best Friend

By Cora Harrison - By Susan Hellard (illus.) - Published 2010

Genres:

Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult

This is a very readable “journal” which covers the period from February to April 1791 as written by Jane Austen’s cousin, Jane Cooper. ...Read Review

The Time of Terror

By Seth Hunter - Published 2009Published 2010

Genres:

AdventureNautical

This novel opens in 1793 with Nathaniel Peake, master and commander of the British brig sloop Nereus, patrolling the sea for smugglers off the ...Read Review

Peter the Great

By Derek Wilson - Published 2009

Genres:

Nonfiction

Biographer and novelist Derek Wilson isn’t new to the game of whisking readers off to distant times to focus on famous historical ...Read Review