19th Century
Lost in Tanganyika
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Thomas Thorpe continues his breezy, immensely enjoyable series of Victorian murder mysteries starring English married couple William and Elizabeth Darmon with this latest ...Read Review
Killer of Witches
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Killer of Witches begins in November 1865, when hundreds of Mescalero Apache disappear from the New Mexico concentration camp where they’re guarded by “...Read Review
Gathered Waters
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Brianna is an ordinary Swedish wife and mother in her strongly Lutheran country in the late 1800s. The Church is so strong that ...Read Review
Amy Snow
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Last year, Tracy Rees’ debut novel won Richard and Judy’s “search for a bestseller” competition. Completely engrossing, it was a worthy selection. ...Read Review
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
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Natasha Pulley’s debut is part steampunk (with the obligatory octopus featured as a clockwork character, and other steampunk elements such as gaslights), ...Read Review
Scandalously Yours / Sinfully Yours / Passionately Yours
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The Hellions of High Street Regency series follows the adventures of the three Sloane sisters, who find true love despite serious disadvantages: not ...Read Review
The Hanged Man
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Historical FantasyMystery/Crime
It is Christmas Eve, 1879, and a man is found hanged in his home. A knock on Alex Pendlebury’s door, and she knows ...Read Review
Rose Glace, Confectioner to a Duke
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I read this particular novel within a twenty-four hour period. Having read another of Ms Fisher’s novels I knew I was in ...Read Review
1884: No Boundaries
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As A. E. Wasserman’s richly atmospheric novel 1884: No Boundaries opens in the London of that year, married and somewhat bored aristocrat Lord ...Read Review
The Fatal Flame
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Manhattan, 1848: Copper Timothy Wilde hates fires. His parents died in one, and a second conflagration, in 1845, scarred his face and burned his life ...Read Review
