Funeral in Blue by Anne Perry
Dr. Kristian Beck is known to be a man selflessly dedicated to the healing arts, so why is he being accused of murdering his very beautiful wife? Granted it was whispered that they lived separate...
View ArticleSearch of the Moon King’s Daughter by Linda Holeman
Near Manchester, England, in 1836, Emmeline Roke finished a piece of golden embroidery on a blue silk gown. It wasn’t her gown. Had she enough money for such a dress, she would have used it to buy...
View ArticleSoulless by Gail Carriger
Alexia Tarabotti finds it terribly inconvenient to happen upon a thirsting vampire while she herself is simply starving at an ill-hosted party with few victuals. She quickly dispatches the vamp with...
View ArticleDracula’s Guest: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Vampire Stories...
The dying days of summer—hot and bright or fog-drenched and rainy—are a suitable time to escape to another century and into the Old World where vampires lurk in musty tombs and sometimes in the...
View ArticleRooftoppers by Katherine Rundell
Back in the time of horse-drawn carriages and gas-lit streets, tiny Sophie was found floating in a cello case next to a sinking ship nigh unto London.read more
View ArticleA Christmas Visitor by Anne Perry
Sherlock Holmes once remarked to Watson that “the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.”read more
View ArticleThe Solitary House by Lynn Shepherd
Charles Maddox’s client turned out his daughter years ago for having “fallen,” in the way that Victorian women were said to do. She disappeared into one of London’s many workhouses and by the time her...
View ArticleThe Bedlam Detective by Stephen Gallagher
What really happened when genius businessman Sir Owain Lancaster decided he could conquer the Amazon? In the 1800s, it was not so unusual for British gentlemen to take on this kind of task—to prove the...
View ArticleA Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn
Fritzi NewtonHistorical FictionMystery & ThrillersMy LibrarianVictorian England -- fictionWomen detectives -- fictionShelf Life BlogAfter her guardian’s burial, Veronica Speedwell returns to her...
View ArticleThe Poisoned House by Michael Ford
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View ArticleA Spy in the House by Y.S. Lee
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View ArticleA Christmas Return by Anne Perry
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