Nina de Angeli
The Rossetti Letter
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Contemporary Harvard grad student Claire Donovan and Venetian courtesan Alessandra Rossetti are heroines of parallel tales told in alternating chapters. The stunning beauty ...Read Review
A Dead Man in Athens
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Athens in 1912 combines goat herds parading through dusty streets, Balkan political tensions, threats of war with Turkey, Bleriot flying machines in the air, ...Read Review
Black Arrow
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Imperial official Sugawara Akitada is recently assigned as deputy governor of Eichigo (now Niigata province) on the rough, snow-bound northern frontier of Heian ...Read Review
Ways to Be Wicked
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Sylvie Lamoureux, prima ballerina of the Paris ballet, takes a daring leap and finds herself penniless in a generically described Regency-era London. Luckily ...Read Review
Murder In Little Italy
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In the turbulent immigrant neighborhoods of late 1890s New York, Tammany Hall ward heelers juggle political power while other ethnic groups protect their ...Read Review
Flying Too High
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Sprightly, witty, fast-moving – all describe both this mystery and its heroine. Phryne (pronounced fry-nee) Fisher is named for an Athenian courtesan of legendary ...Read Review
Face Down Beside St. Anne’s Well
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In 1575 Susanna Appleton, gentlewoman and herbalist, visits the Buxton spa, Derbyshire, one sometimes frequented by Mary, Queen of Scots. Ostensibly there for the ...Read Review
The Tale of Holly How
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Running commentary from badgers, dogs, sheep, and other creatures of farm and field give a suitably Peter Rabbitish flavor to this tale of ...Read Review
Sex Wars
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In post-Civil War America, early feminists ran into a backlash worse than today’s attacks on second wave feminism. Crusaders for women’s ...Read Review
It Sleeps In Me
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Is it witchcraft or delusional sexual obsession? Set in about 1400 CE, in a pre-Columbian Mississippian culture on Lake Jackson in present-day northern Florida, ...Read Review
