Jazz Age

Angel with Two Faces

By Nicola Upson - Published 2009

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

This is the second novel featuring crime writer, Josephine Tey as a sleuth. She is invited to visit the Cornish home of Inspector ...Read Review

Sheer Folly

By Carola Dunn - Published 2009

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In this latest addition to Carola Dunn’s mystery series set in 1920s England, Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, now the mother of twins, and ...Read Review

As If By Magic

By Dolores Gordon-Smith - Published 2009

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

On a stormy night in October 1923, the destitute and feverish George Lassiter breaks into a house in Mayfair to which he feels strangely ...Read Review

The Other Eden

By Sarah Bryant - Published 2006Published 2009

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Sarah Bryant is unquestionably a talented writer who deserves a wide readership. Her historical novel set during the time of the Crusades, Sand ...Read Review

Night Fires

By George Edward Stanley - Published 2009

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

In 1922, thirteen-year-old Woodrow Harper’s father dies in a car accident. His father had been a West Point career army officer. Woodrow and ...Read Review

Murder in the Dark

By Kerry Greenwood - Published 2009

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Phryne Fisher receives an invitation from the eccentric twins Gerald and Isabella Templar to the Last Best Party of 1928, to be held at ...Read Review

Murder on a Midsummer Night

By Kerry Greenwood - Published 2009

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Greenwood’s latest entry in the Phryne Fisher series, her 16th, has the unflappable Melbourne detective facing a multitude of problems: her 29th ...Read Review

Angel’s Flight

By Alice Duncan - Published 2009

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Boston blueblood Mercy Alcutt returns in the second book in Duncan’s series set in 1920s Los Angeles. Mercy, a budding novelist, has ...Read Review

The Bolter

By Frances Osborne - Published 2008Published 2009

Genres:

Nonfiction

Frances Osborne, the great-granddaughter of Idina Sackville, has written a shockingly candid biography of a brazen woman who defied the convention of upper ...Read Review

The Englishman’s Boy

By Guy Vanderhaeghe - Published 1996Published 2009

Genres:

LiteraryWestern

Two story lines present the title character, caught up in a massacre in 1870s Saskatchewan, and the machinations of 1920s Hollywood. A film ...Read Review