Gilded Age
Opulence and Ashes (A Gilded Gotham Mystery)
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In the fourth book in her Gilded Gotham Mystery series, Kate Belli resumes the story of journalist Genevieve Stewart, well-ensconced into New York ...Read Review
The Cash Countess
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1893 New York. Cordelia Jones is a carefree heiress, living a life of luxury and basking in the attentions of her best friend and ...Read Review
Nothing Left But Dust
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San Francisco’s earthquake of April 1906 is the setting for fictional characters Josephine, “Jo,” and Otto. Jo, age sixteen, is an unpaid worker ...Read Review
The Winthrop Agreement
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New York, 1893. Lithuanian immigrant Rivkah Milmanovitch debarks on Ellis Island, expecting to join her husband and start a new life, but instead, she ...Read Review
Murder Wears a Hidden Face (A Gilded Age Mystery)
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Simpson asserts in her author’s note that in each book she writes “the setting…[is] another character.” Certainly, the setting in this ...Read Review
Murder by Degrees
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In 1875 Philadelphia, at the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, Dr. Lydia Weston is busy as a doctor, professor, and anatomist. She learns ...Read Review
A Lady’s Promise
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Prince Baxter returns from Paris to 1895 New York to woo socialite Miss Darlington, much to the disgust of his elder brother Preston, whose ...Read Review
The Literary Undoing of Victoria Swann
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Victoria Swann is a wildly successful romance novelist in Gilded Age Boston. She singlehandedly dispenses firm advice to starry-eyed girls (via her assistant), ...Read Review
The Wings of Poppy Pendleton
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One awful morning in 1907, young Poppy Pendleton goes missing, apparently taken from her bed in her wealthy parents’ castle on Koster Isle in ...Read Review
The Shanghai Secret: A Gilded Age Mystery (The Tidewater Chronicles)
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1888 Astoria, Oregon. The intrigue begins when seventeen-year-old Josephine Felch, the daughter of a salmon cannery magnate, is hired to assist Cecil Wisener, the ...Read Review