Diane Scott Lewis

The American Heiress

By Daisy Goodwin - Published 2011

Genres:

Romance

Cora Cash is a beautiful and fabulously wealthy young woman in the 1890s – the decadent Gilded Age. To escape her overbearing, social-climbing mother, ...Read Review

The Chamomile

By Susan F. Craft - Published 2011

Genres:

Adventure

Lilyan Cameron runs a wallpapering and artist shop in 1780 Charlestown, South Carolina. The future “Charleston” is under siege from the British during the ...Read Review

My Wife’s Affair

By Nancy Woodruff - Published 2011

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeRomance

  Peter, a financial writer and failed novelist, takes his wife and three sons from New Jersey to modern-day London for his new ...Read Review

Behind the Palace Doors

By Michael Farquhar - Published 2011

Genres:

Nonfiction

“Five centuries of sex, adventure, vice, treachery, and folly from royal Britain.” The tribulations of the Tudors are well known, thanks to numerous ...Read Review

Anthem for Doomed Youth

By Carola Dunn - Published 2011

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In 1926, Scotland Yard’s DCI Alec Fletcher investigates three murders near London. The corpses are shot through the heart and were apparently killed ...Read Review

A Royal Likeness

By Christine Trent - Published 2011

Genres:

Adventure

Marguerite Ashby, daughter of a Frenchwoman, runs a doll shop in 1803 London. Married to her childhood sweetheart, she happily creates dolls for even ...Read Review

The Duke’s Agent

By Rebecca Jenkins - Published 2010

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Wounded in the Peninsular War, army officer Raif Jarrett returns to England in 1811 to recuperate. From his relative the Duke of Penrith, Raif ...Read Review

Killer Colt: Murder, Disgrace, and the Making of an American Legend

By Harold Schechter - Published 2010

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeNonfiction

After their father loses his wealth, brothers John and Sam Colt suffer a dissolute youth in early 19th century America. John, the more ...Read Review

The Princess of Nowhere

By Prince Lorenzo Borghese - Published 2010

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Pauline Bonaparte, younger sister of Napoleon, loses her first husband to yellow fever. She returns to Paris from Saint Dominique, spends lavishly and ...Read Review

The Countess

By Rebecca Johns - Published 2010

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Erzsébet Báthory is sent to marry Hungarian nobleman Ferenc Nádasdy in the 16th century. She suffers her husband’s indifference ...Read Review