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Paula Martinac

The American Daughters

By Maurice Carlos Ruffin - Published 2024

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Enslaved on John du Marche’s plantation in the years before the Civil War, Ady and her mother, Sanite, survive inhumane treatment through ...Read Review

Murder at an English Séance (A Beryl and Edwina Mystery)

By Jessica Ellicott - Published 2024

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Mystery/Crime

“Private enquiry” agents Edwina Davenport and her American friend, Beryl Helliwell, return in this historical mystery set in the quaint English village of ...Read Review

To Slip the Bonds of Earth (A Katharine Wright Mystery)

By Amanda Flower - Published 2024

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Mystery/Crime

Everyone knows about the Wright Brothers who pioneered flight, but Amanda Flower’s latest historical mystery brings to life their hidden-from-history sister—real-life ...Read Review

I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died (An Emily Dickinson Mystery)

By Amanda Flower - Published 2023

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Mystery/Crime

Intrepid poet Emily Dickinson and her maid, Willa Noble, return as a pair of amateur sleuths in this delightful and well-researched historical mystery. ...Read Review

Murder at a London Finishing School (A Beryl and Edwina Mystery)

By Jessica Ellicott - Published 2023

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Mystery/Crime

In the tranquil village of Warmsley Parva in post-World War I Britain, Edwina Davenport and her American friend and former classmate, Beryl Helliwell, ...Read Review

Lost in Paris

By Betty Webb - Published 2023

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Mystery/Crime

In this first in a series set in the early 1920s, Zoe Barlow’s wealthy Alabama family casts her out, viewing her forbidden ...Read Review

A Taste of Betrayal: A Faith Clarke Mystery

By Julie Bates - Published 2022

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Mystery/Crime

In 1775 Williamsburg, the colonial capital of Virginia, tempers flare between loyalists to King George III and patriots craving independence. Tavern keeper Faith Clarke, ...Read Review

A Twist of Murder (A Dickens of a Crime)

By Heather Redmond - Published 2022

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Mystery/Crime

This is the fifth in a series featuring the youthful Charles Dickens as an amateur sleuth investigating a rot at a private school ...Read Review

A Trace of Poison (A Phyllida Bright Mystery)

By Colleen Cambridge - Published 2022

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Mystery/Crime

A Trace of Poison is second in a historical mystery series featuring Phyllida Bright, fictional housekeeper at Mallowan Hall in Devon, England—estate ...Read Review