Victorian
The Doll Factory
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Iris paints porcelain faces, ‘threads hair through the holes in the scalp, sometimes curls it with irons heated in the coals,’ in Mrs ...Read Review
Soul of the Border: A Novel
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Soul of the Border is set in the late 19th century in the remote village of Nevada, Italy, near the Austrian border. Augusto ...Read Review
Anything But a Duke: The Duke’s Den
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In this second installment of Carlyle’s Duke’s Den series, which follows the fates of three men who run a gambling club ...Read Review
A Necessary Murder (Heloise Chancey Mysteries)
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London, 1863: A little girl is discovered savagely murdered in her wealthy family’s outhouse. A few days later, a grown man is similarly ...Read Review
Jack Dawkins
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In Dickens’ Oliver Twist, Jack Dawkins, a wily young pickpocket known as the Artful Dodger, ends up “doing full justice to his bringing-up, ...Read Review
Peccadillo at the Palace: An Annie Oakley Mystery
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Second in a promising new amateur sleuth series, Peccadillo at the Palace gets off to a racing start aboard ship with a series ...Read Review
What Empty Things Are These
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In this Victorian novel, there are few good men, and they barely speak. Adelaide Hadley lives an upper middle-class existence: decent food, good ...Read Review
The Unquiet Heart (Sarah Gilchrist Mysteries)
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1894, Scotland. In the gloom of an Edinburgh night, three terrified young women wait to hear their grade on a medical school examination. Women, ...Read Review
Murder at the British Museum (The Museum Mysteries)
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London 1894, and Daniel Wilson and Abigail Fenton have teamed up once again, after solving the murders in Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum (reviewed in ...Read Review
The Inventors and the Lost Island
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Children/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy
Second in a series after The Inventors at No. 8 (oddly, there’s only one inventor, and she lives at number 5), this magical Victorian ...Read Review