Ellen Keith
The Betrayal of the Blood Lily
Sixth in Willig’s series featuring present day academic Eloise Kelly researching the exploits of aristocratic English spies in the Napoleonic…
Prima Donna
Prima Donna is the story of 19th-century opera singer Sabine Conrad and how she went from stardom in New York…
Stardust
In 1945 Hollywood, the end of World War II, while cause for rejoicing, also ushered in the beginning of the…
Velva Jean Learns to Drive
Editors' choice
In 1933, when she is ten years old, Velva Jean Hart is saved for the first time. And she is…
Royal Flush
Third in Bowen’s highly entertaining mystery series featuring Lady Georgiana, thirty-fourth in line to the British throne in 1932,…
Winter in June
Third in Haines’s Rosie Winter mystery series, this outing finds the World War II-era actress on a steamer to the…
Angel’s Flight
Boston blueblood Mercy Alcutt returns in the second book in Duncan’s series set in 1920s Los Angeles. Mercy, a budding…
We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals
Gill, biographer of Florence Nightingale, turns her attention to one of the most famous marriages of 19th-century England, that of…
The King of Ragtime
The King of Ragtime is Karp’s second mystery featuring Scott Joplin. Following The Ragtime Kid, set in 1899 in Sedalia,…
Devil’s Garden
With the rash of mysteries featuring famous people as amateur detectives, I tend to sigh when I see another one,…
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