Gilded Age
Gilded Summers
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Morin’s Gilded Summers explores two women and their opposite worlds, detailing their unlikely friendship and growth into the people they truly want ...Read Review
What Girls Are Good For: A Novel of Nellie Bly
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Frustrated by the lack of opportunities available to a young woman of her modest standing, Elizabeth Cochrane is outraged when the Pittsburg Dispatch ...Read Review
The Flimflam Affair: A Carpenter and Quincannon Mystery
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This is the seventh installment in the Carpenter and Quincannon series by husband and wife writers Bill Pronzini and Marcia Muller, although this ...Read Review
Let the Dead Keep Their Secrets (Gilded Age Mystery)
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New York, 1889. Heiress Prudence McKenzie and ex-Pinkerton Geoffrey Hunter are hired by Claire Buchanan, who suspects her sister’s death wasn’t caused ...Read Review
The Invitation
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Writer and harpist Emma Ducasse was raised by her grandmother in Paris. Her elder sister Caroline is married to American tycoon Oliver Hopper. ...Read Review
Duchess by Design: The Gilded Age Girls Club
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Women’s lib gets sexy in this bright, saucy tale set in Gilded Age New York City. The Duke of Kingston requires an ...Read Review
That Churchill Woman
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Luminous, passionate, rebellious Jennie Churchill, Winston’s glamorous mother, has inspired many biographies and novels. The latest, by Stephanie Barron, author of the ...Read Review
Legacy of Mercy
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When I reviewed Waves of Mercy back in the February 2017 HNR issue, I mentioned the need for a sequel, and Austin has finally ...Read Review
American Duchess: A Novel of Consuelo Vanderbilt
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Before Meghan Markle, another American woman became a duchess: Consuelo Vanderbilt. Born in 1877 to Alva and William Kissam Vanderbilt, Consuelo led a life ...Read Review
A Well-Behaved Woman: A Novel of the Vanderbilts
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Alva has one duty: to secure a marriage that will save her family. Though her bloodline traces back to French royalty, her father’...Read Review