19th Century
Mami of the Mountain
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Joy Fowler’s enormous, sprawling epic Mami of the Mountain mostly takes place in the backwoods and poor but picturesque hollers of the 19...Read Review
Treading Softly, Breaking Shells
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The complicated world of the Seychelles in 1878 comes vividly to life in Kim Balette’s Treading Softly, Breaking Shells when Peter, a plantation ...Read Review
The Last Legionnaire (Jack Lark, Book 5): A dark military adventure of strength and survival on the battlefields of Europe (Jack Lark 5)
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In the first book in the series Jack Lark began his Army career in Aldershot Barracks as an orderly to one of the ...Read Review
Temptations of a Wallflower
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To a modern reader, marriage between a duke’s daughter and an earl’s son would seem unremarkable, other than as a parade ...Read Review
Murder in Morningside Heights: A Gaslight Mystery
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After years on the New York City police force, Frank Malloy has inherited money and set himself up as a private investigator. His ...Read Review
A Spy’s Devotion
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In Book One of the Regency Spies of London Series, Julia Grey has problems. First of all, she is struggling to resist pressure ...Read Review
Seventeen Minutes to Baker Street
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Doctor Watson is anxious to set the matter straight regarding the true facts of the solving of the recent murder of Maria Gibson ...Read Review
Alligator Creek
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The home front experience of the South in the final years of the American Civil War takes center stage in Lottie Guttry’s ...Read Review
Helena Landless
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Charles Dickens’s last and famously unfinished novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood receives a very smart and entertaining pastiche treatment in Deanna ...Read Review
A Fever of the Blood
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Frey and McGray return for a second outing in de Muriel’s new novel. The story opens in January 1889 with a brutal killing ...Read Review
