Jane Kessler
The Bone Garden
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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
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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
Red Thunder
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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
Kiss Me Goodbye: Finding Love Among the Ashes of the Civil War
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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
The Conjurer
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
On Agate Hill
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Lee Smith is a talented novelist who has written an absorbing novel of the post-Civil War South. Molly Petree is an orphan living ...Read Review
