Edwardian
A Shadow on the Lens
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Thomas Bexley is a forensic photographer (one of the first in the country) working for the Metropolitan Police. It is June 1904, and he ...Read Review
Sons of the Soil
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In 1902, Jon Ahmeti is an Albanian living in the Ottoman province of Macedonia, where he works for James MacGregor, the head of the ...Read Review
Reinhardt’s Garden
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In 1907, Jacov Reinhardt is obsessed with melancholy and its effect on mankind. In an attempt to complete his treatise on the subject, Reinhardt ...Read Review
The Titanic Secret (An Isaac Bell Adventure)
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Though this Cussler story begins with Dirk Pitt—of the National Underwater and Marine Agency—in the present, this is really an Isaac ...Read Review
The Animal Gazer
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This is a prize-winning fictionalised biography of the sculptor Rembrandt Bugatti (1884-1916). In his brief life Bugatti created over 300 bronzes, nearly all animal ...Read Review
A Merry Murder (A Special Pennyfoot Hotel Mystery)
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It is Christmastime at the Pennyfoot, a hotel in the English countryside not far from London. Its owner, Cecily Baxter, is enjoying making ...Read Review
All the Forgivenesses
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All the Forgivenesses is a wrenching read. It begins in dirt-poor Kentucky in 1906 and concludes in the oil boom in Kansas, a few ...Read Review
Barefoot on the Cobbles: A Devon Tragedy
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I had misgivings reading the list of dramatis personae, several pages long, that the author provides at the start of her book. Whose ...Read Review
The Women of the Copper Country
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In 1913, the seeds for the copper mine union are sown by the death of a Finnish drill operator. Led by the intrepid Anna ...Read Review
The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols
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As in 1974 when he uncovered an unpublished manuscript by John H. Watson and presented it in The Seven Percent Solution, author Nicholas Meyer ...Read Review