Jane Kessler

The Bone Garden

By Tess Gerritsen - Published 2007Published 2008

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

This story begins in present-day Boston, where Julia Hamill is newly divorced. While working in the overgrown garden of her new home, she ...Read Review

Blood and Circuses

By Kerry Greenwood - Published 2006

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

This is the 6th in a series of sixteen mysteries Kerry Greenwood has written featuring the Honourable Phryne Fisher, a young, beautiful, rich, ...Read Review

Kiss Me Goodbye: Finding Love Among the Ashes of the Civil War

By Bonny Barry Sanders - Published 2007

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In 1861, the author’s great-grandfather, James McCormick, is an Irish Catholic immigrant who lives in Potsdam, New York. He is a bright, mechanically-inclined ...Read Review

Red Thunder

By John P. Hunter - Published 2007

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

After British dragoons led by the notorious Colonel Banastre Tarleton destroyed his family’s farm, stole all their cows, and wounded his parents, ...Read Review

The Conjurer

By Cordelia Frances Biddle - Published 2007

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeRomance

This historical mystery is set in Philadelphia in 1842. Martha Beale is the sheltered, unmarried daughter of a wealthy financier, Lemuel Beale, who goes ...Read Review

A Tendering in the Storm

By Jane Kirkpatrick - Published 2007

Genres:

AdventureWestern

This book continues the story begun in A Clearing in the Wild. Both novels are based on the true story of the utopian ...Read Review

The Midwife of St. Petersburg

By Linda Lee Chaikin - Published 2007

Genres:

RomanceSaga

This story takes place amidst the turmoil of 1914 Czarist Russia. Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Serbia has recently been assassinated, and war is imminent. ...Read Review

Finest Kind

By Lea Wait - Published 2006

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

It’s the fall of 1838. Twelve-year-old Jake Webber and his family have arrived in Wiscasset, Maine, from Boston. Jake’s father has lost ...Read Review

Dearest Enemy

By Nan Ryan - Published 2006

Genres:

Romance

It’s 1860 and Suzanna LeGrande, a pampered Southern girl à la Scarlett O’Hara, is living happily in Virginia with her wealthy widowed mother ...Read Review

Murder On The Ballarat Train

By Kerry Greenwood - Published 2006

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

This is the third book of the adventures of the Honourable Phryne Fisher, lady detective, set in 1920s Australia. Phryne is on the ...Read Review