Sarah Johnson
The Blue Maiden
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For the residents of Sweden’s Berggrund Island in 1825, the Blue Maiden is a fearful place. An uninhabited neighboring isle, its appearance shifts ...Read Review
Murder in Rose Hill (A Gaslight Mystery)
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Anyone conducting research in Gilded Age news archives will note the proliferation of ads for patent medicines: concoctions promoted as cure-alls for myriad ...Read Review
All the World Beside
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Conley’s debut novel brings us to a small Massachusetts town—the symbolically-named Cana—while dramatizing an affair between two married Puritan men ...Read Review
We Were the Bullfighters
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In her leanly written debut, Miller dramatizes the pivotal months Ernest Hemingway spent in Canada as a reporter for the Toronto Star, imagining ...Read Review
All We Were Promised
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Lattimore’s debut exudes originality in its characters, plot situations, and especially in its well-chosen setting of 1830s Philadelphia, “the self-proclaimed cradle of ...Read Review
The House on Biscayne Bay
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Cleeton’s dual-period mystery intermixes tropical heat and gothic chills in a satisfying way as two women, decades apart, face up to shocking ...Read Review
A Home for Friendless Women
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Kelly E. Hill’s debut reads like a living, breathing scrapbook about the women from the titular Home, a religious organization from late 19...Read Review
The Other Gwyn Girl
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Raise your hand if you realized royal mistress Nell Gwyn had an older sister. If not, you’re not alone. Nicola Cornick has ...Read Review
A Body at the Dance Hall (London Ladies’ Murder Club)
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Kudos to Marty Wingate for writing an engaging cozy mystery whose solution is a clever and unpredictable puzzle. A Body at the Dance ...Read Review
A Nest of Vipers: A Bangalore Detectives Club Mystery
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Offering an even twistier and broader-scope plot than the first two books in Nagendra’s series, A Nest of Vipers is dominated by ...Read Review