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The Innocents (Variety Palace Mysteries, 2)

By Bridget Walsh - Published 2024

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The Innocents is the second in a mystery series set in Victorian London in the 1870s. Its main protagonists are Minnie Ward, a ...Read Review

Edith Holler

By Edward Carey - Published 2023

Genres:

Literary

This fascinating, dreamlike novel is hard to categorize. Set in 1901 Norwich, England, this penny-dreadful-inspired tale of haunted theaters, murderous stepmothers, cannibalism, ghosts, and ...Read Review

The Tumbling Girl (Variety Palace Mysteries)

By Bridget Walsh - Published 2023

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Mystery/Crime

London, 1876: in the first of Walsh’s Variety Palace mysteries, Minnie Ward, a plainspoken magician’s assistant turned music hall scriptwriter, vows to ...Read Review

The Bone Flower

By Charles Lambert - Published 2022

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Our Victorian hero is the young Edward Monteith, only son of his isolated and wealthy father. An indolent innocent, Edward is spending his ...Read Review

Vintage 1954

By Antoine Laurain - Published 2019

Genres:

Time-slip

Four acquaintances share a bottle of vintage 1954 Beaujolais wine. The next day when they step onto the streets of Paris, it’s obvious ...Read Review

Wolf Hunt: The Napoleonic Murders

By Armand Cabasson - By Isabel Reid (trans.) - Published 2014 Published 2014-06-26

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

During the Napoleonic Wars in 1809, Napoleon’s army is camped outside Vienna awaiting reinforcements. Captain Quentin Margont of the 18th Infantry Regiment of ...Read Review

The Man with the Lead Stomach: The Nicolas Le Floch Investigations 2: A Nicholas Le Floch Investigation

By Jean-Francois Parot - By Michael Glencross (Translator) - Published 2009-01-15 Published 2014

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In 1761, Paris police commissioner Nicholas Le Floch rushes to investigate the apparent suicide of a young aristocrat. Nicholas immediately deduces that the young ...Read Review

Memory of Flames

By Armand Cabasson - By Isabel Reid (trans.) - Published 2009

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

When Lieutenant Colonel Margont is ordered by Joseph Bonaparte to investigate the murder of a colonel charged with drawing up plans to defend ...Read Review

Murder on the Eiffel Tower

By Claud Izner - Published 2007

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

June 1889. The Eiffel Tower is the most popular exhibit of the Paris Exposition and thousands flock each day to climb it. These include ...Read Review

The Chatelet Apprentice

By Jean-Francois Parot - By Michael Glencross (trans.) - Published 2007 Published 2013

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Mystery/Crime

Paris, 1761. A senior police officer disappears and raw recruit, Nicolas Le Floch, is instructed to find him. When unidentified human remains come to ...Read Review