Gilded Age
The Body in the Ballroom
Philadelphia Rutledge’s coming-of-age ball at her uptown New York mansion ends in disaster when one of the most universally hated…
The Husband Hunters: American Heiresses Who Married Into the British Aristocracy
This non-fiction book reads more vividly than many novels. The husband hunters might appear to be wealthy American young women…
Murder at the Ochre Court
Emma Cross loves the elegant seaside resort of Newport, Rhode Island. In the summer of 1898, she returns there from…
A Scandalous Deal
Eva Hyde dreams of establishing herself as an architect and not just living under her famous father’s shadow. With three…
The Katie Dugan Case
Widower detective David Drummond has returned to his home and job in Wilmington, Delaware in October 1892, following two months…
Where We Belong
Editors' choice
Sisters Rebecca and Flora Hawes are marvelously atypical Victorian women in 1890s Chicago. They have grown up independent and thirsty…
Out of the Ordinary
In New York City in 1883, sensible but orphaned Gertrude Cadwalader and fashion-blind shipping magnate Harrison Sinclair already like each…
The Heart of an Agent
Second in Lyons’ Adirondack Pinkerton series and set in 1892, the book begins with Lily Handland turning in her resignation…
The English Wife
Willig’s clever romantic mystery opens with the death of Bayard Van Duyvil, a handsome American aristocrat, and the disappearance of…
Fanny Newcomb and the Irish Channel Ripper
Fanny Newcomb has come to New Orleans in 1889 to teach business courses at Wisdom Hall Settlement House. She has…
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