18th Century

The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home: A Welcome to Night Vale Novel

By Jeffrey Cranor - By Joseph Fink - Published 2020

Genres:

Historical FantasyThriller

This multi-genre novel opens in Night Vale, a fictional town in the American Southwest where ghosts, angels, and specters dwell. In 2011 an old ...Read Review

Dangerous Freedom

By Lawrence Scott - Published 2020

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

This isn’t a typical novel about slavery. It is a fictional portrayal of a real figure, Dido, the daughter of an African ...Read Review

First Comes Scandal: A Bridgerton Prequel

By Julia Quinn - Published 2020

Genres:

Romance

1791. Summoned home urgently from medical school in Edinburgh, Nicholas Rokesby is grateful it is not for a death in the family. He is ...Read Review

Murder in Venice

By Lucinda Byatt (trans.) - By Maria Luisa Minarelli - Published 2019

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Venice, 1752. When the body of an impoverished nobleman is discovered, Avogadore Marco Pisani is asked to investigate. He’s helped by his friend ...Read Review

The Foundling (UK) / The Lost Orphan (US)

By Stacey Halls - Published 2020

Genres:

In 1748, Bessie Bright gives birth to an illegitimate daughter, Clara. Due to her poverty-stricken circumstances, she is forced to leave the newborn at ...Read Review

A Bottle of Rum (A Spider John Mystery)

By Steve Goble - Published 2019

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In 1723, former pirates Spider John Rush and his comrade Odin are enjoying good tankards of ale at the Crosskeys Tavern in the port ...Read Review

Death and the Chevalier (A Cragg and Fidelis Mystery)

By Robin Blake - Published 2020

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Prestonians in Lancashire, England, have bitter memories of the Scottish risings of 1715 and 1719 that left much of the town in ashes. In November 1745, ...Read Review

Tsarina

By Ellen Alpsten - Published 2020

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

This is the story of Catherine I of Russia, not to be confused with Catherine the Great. This Catherine was born in 1684 to ...Read Review

Carrying Independence (A Founding-Documents Novel)

By Karen A Chase - Published 2019

Genres:

Thriller

All Nathaniel needs to collect is six signatures. If he does, he’ll have enough money to court the woman he loves and ...Read Review

The Ghosts of Saratoga

By David Dampf - By David R. Ossont - Published 2019

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

It’s 1777, and 17-year-old Roland McCaffrey is a scout for General Schuyler, who leads the American militia in upper New York. His immediate ...Read Review