18th Century
The Gauntlet Runner
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Jacob and Maggie Murray, young Pennsylvania pioneer farmers, are the main characters in this story set against the background of the French and ...Read Review
Vivaldi’s Muse
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The story of Annina Giro, virtuous and strong-willed young heroine of Sarah Bruce Kelly’s Vivaldi’s Muse, begins in 1719 in Mantua, where ...Read Review
Circle of Shadows
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Another instalment detailing the adventures of Harriet Westerman and Gabriel Crowther, an unlikely detective pairing which works in unusual ways, solving crimes others ...Read Review
Pure
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Pure is a novel about the clearance of the cemetery at Les Innocents in Paris in 1785 and the transportation of the human remains ...Read Review
The Académie
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Eliza Monroe, daughter of the future president of the United States, arrives at a French boarding school in 1799 ostensibly to learn conversation skills, ...Read Review
The Turning of Anne Merrick
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This sequel to The Tory Widow takes place in 1777. Widow Anne Merrick has infiltrated General Burgoyne’s British army as a peddler selling ...Read Review
The Danger of Desire
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If a reader is looking for a sexy romance that has more than a thin wash of 1799 realism in it, one needn’t ...Read Review
The Scottish Prisoner
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I admit it – I am a major Diana Gabaldon fan and a particular devotee of her Lord John Grey character. To say I ...Read Review
The Power and the Glory
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The decade between the end of the American Revolution and the War of 1812 was a crucial challenge for the United States. Lacking a ...Read Review
Sup with the Devil
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Barbara Hamilton’s third book in the Abigail Adams Mystery series is set on the cusp of the American Revolution, and her husband, ...Read Review
