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A Dangerous Affair
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A Dangerous Affair, an elegant mystery novel set in early Victorian London, is the second installment in a series involving a very unconventional ...Read Review
Where Love Dwells
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Volume 3 in the Candlewood Trilogy finds widow Emma Garrett expecting her sons and their families home for her birthday. She is apprehensive about ...Read Review
A Conspiracy of Ravens
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In this second Lady Trent novel, 1850s Victorian London finds Lady Serafina Trent working once again with Dylan Tremayne. This time, she’s ...Read Review
The Organ Grinder
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The latest book in the Dutchman Historical Mystery series by husband-and-wife team Martin and Annette Meyers (writing as Maan Meyers) is set in 1899 ...Read Review
The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet
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Whatever became of Mary Bennet, the middle sister of the five young ladies memorialized in Pride and Prejudice? Not nearly as witty as ...Read Review
The Long Knives Are Crying
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This second book in Joseph Marshall’s Lakota Westerns series tells the story of Custer’s Last Stand from the Lakota viewpoint. Opening ...Read Review
Wobble to Death
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It is a cold November morning in 1879 and a dozen ‘pedestrians’ in silk drawers and white tights gather at the Agricultural Hall in ...Read Review
The Detective Wore Silk Drawers
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The second of Peter Lovesey’s Victorian mysteries (now reissued) plunges Sergeant Cribb and Constable Thackery into the underworld of bare-knuckled pugilism. In 1880, ...Read Review
Secret Bride
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Damion Templeton, Viscount Woodhurst, is experiencing a problem all too common in Regency romance novels—to satisfy his dying grandmother he needs a ...Read Review
The Scent of Sake
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Lebra’s debut is a biographical novel of Rie, the sole heir of the House of Omura, a sake-brewing family in 19th-century Japan. ...Read Review
