19th Century
It Takes a Scandal
This enjoyable Regency romance is second in a series inspired by reader interest in Fifty Shades of Grey. Not only…
Shadow on the Mesa
In 1883 Arizona Territory, three men murder an Arapaho Indian woman named Mary Antelope. In Wyoming Territory, Wes Montana, a…
City of Dreams
City of Dreams follows Anna, a Russian who moves to Paris on the verge of the 1865 Franco-Prussian war. Early…
A Shining Light
Widow Andrea Wilson takes the settlement money from her deceased husband’s maritime job and decides to travel home to reunite…
The Convictions of John Delahunt
On a December morning in 1841, a Dublin boy has his throat cut in an apparently motiveless killing. The trial…
Baudelaire’s Revenge
“Love could be the cruelest motive, he thought. And blood the oldest messenger.” As the Prussians bear down on Paris…
Miami Gundown
In 1864, eighteen-year-old Boone McCallister and about a half dozen other cow hunters are moving a herd of cattle from…
The Baklava Club
The Baklava Club is the fifth (and purportedly the last) of the Edgar-winning Investigator Yashim stories, set in 19th-century Istanbul.…
Dappled Light
Dappled Light by Jessica Markwell is a well-written and complex novel, comprising four separate narratives that begin in Scotland and…
Inamorata
Set in 1879 Venice, this story is hard to categorize, but impossible to put down. Twins Joseph and Sophie Hannigan…
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