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Nineteenth century Europe featured the English Regency period, which gave rise to the "Regency romance" genre. Jane Austen wrote during this time, and a number of modern authors have borrowed her characters to create a distinct new Jane-Austen-inspired genre of historical fiction. From 1837-1901, England's Queen Victoria presided over an era known for the expansion of the British Empire and rigid social rules that masked a surge in poverty and crime. In both the British Isles and the European Continent, the Industrial Revolution brought impressive advances in technology, made fortunes for many, and trapped others in lives of oppressive drudgery. The 1845 Irish Potato Famine (not limited to Ireland) caused enormous suffering and a surge in emigration. George MacDonald Fraser's popular Flashman series about a British soldier is set in the British Empire period. For novels set during the time of Napoleon, see the Napoleonic Era page. The Jane Austen genre and some classic Regency romance novels (specifically Georgette Heyer's) are listed below; for a more complete listing of Regency romances, consult a website devoted to historical romance.
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Peter Ackroyd, The Case Book of Victor Frankenstein (2009), a literary novel which imagines that the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and Victor Frankenstein, creator of the Frankenstein monster, were students together at Oxford.
Louise Allen, The Outrageous Lady Felsham (2008), historical romance about a young widow who has an affair with a viscount who turns up in her bedroom in the wee hours of the morning; #2 in the Those Scandalous Ravenhursts series. Louise Allen, The Shocking Lord Standon (2008), historical romance about a respectable man who discovers the solution to his own difficulty when he assists a naked woman out of hers; #3 in the Those Scandalous Ravenhursts series. Louise Allen, The Disgraceful Mr. Ravenhurst (2009), historical romance about a reckless man who falls in love with his bluestocking cousin, whose drab exterior conceals a passionate nature; #4 in the Those Scandalous Ravenhursts series. Louise Allen, The Notorious Mr. Hurst (2009), historical romance about an aristocratic young woman who falls in love with a theatre owner who doesn't believe in love; #5 in the Those Scandalous Ravenhursts series. Louise Allen, The Piratical Miss Ravenhurst (2009), historical romance about a young woman from Jamaica who is kidnapped by pirates; #6 in the Those Scandalous Ravenhursts series.
Lyn Andrews, Maggie May (2009), about a young woman who grew up in the slums of Liverpool burdened with the name her father gave her, that of a notorious prostitute. Evelyn Anthony, Victoria and Albert (1958; also titled Victoria), about the young Queen Victoria and her marriage to Prince Albert. Aileen Armitage, Conflict of Interest (2005 reissue; originally published 1972 as Shadow of Dungeon Wood under the name Aileen Quigley), about a mill town in Yorkshire in 1812 during the Industrial Revolution. Gaynor Arnold, Girl in a Blue Dress (2008), about the widow of a famous writer (a fictionalized version of Charles Dickens) and her memories of their troubled marriage. Alison Atlee, The Typewriter Girl (2013), about a down-on-her-luck typist in Victorian London who seizes her opportunity for a job at a seaside resort, offered to her by the builder of the resort's pleasure fair. Review Jane Ashford, Married to a Perfect Stranger (2015), a Regency romance about a couple reunited two years after their honeymoon is disrupted when the husband is sent on a secret two-year government mission. Carmel McMurdo Audsley, Ours, Yours and Mines Martine Bailey, The Penny Heart (2015; titled A Taste for Nightshade in the U.S.), about a young wife whose husband married her for her money, and a slum girl who has vowed revenge after being deported to Australia for swindling the young wife's husband. Beryl Bainbridge, Master Georgie (1998), about a homosexual British physician who volunteers to serve as a medical officer in the Crimean War. Lori Baker, The Glass Ocean (2013), about a glassmaker and the daughter of a seaman who meet aboard ship on her naturalist father's expedition to the New World.
Mary Balogh, Then Comes Seduction (2009), Regency romance about a young baron who makes a wager while in his cups that he will succeed in seducing a wealthy and exceptionally virtuous young woman; #2 in the Huxtable series. Mary Balogh, At Last Comes Love (2009), Regency romance about a woman tricked into a betrothal who gives her fiancé an ultimatum; #3 in the Huxtable series. Mary Balogh, Seducing an Angel (2009), Regency romance about a young woman wrongly branded a murderess and driven into destitution who comes to London to find a wealthy man she can tempt into taking her as his mistress; #4 in the Huxtable series. Review Mary Balogh, The Arrangement (2013), a Regency romance about a gentleman and a young woman who agree to a marrage of convenience.
Jonathan Barnes, The Somnambulist (2008), a darkly comic literary satire of nineteenth century detective novels, about a stage magician investigating a plot to destroy London. Julian Barnes, Arthur and George, nineteenth century author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle uses his insights as a writer of detective stories to help a man wrongly convicted of a crime. Andrea Barrett, Servants of the Map, a collection of short stories set mostly in the early nineteenth century. Review Andrea Barrett, Voyage of the Narwhal (1998), about an 1855 expedition to the Arctic in search of a lost ship. Susan Barrett, Fixing Shadows Kate Beaufoy, Another Heartbeat in the House Peter Behrens, The Law of Dreams, a young Irishman journeys from famine-stricken Ireland to England, Wales and across the ocean to America. Melanie Benjamin, Alice I Have Been (2010), a biographical novel about Alice Liddell, the real girl who inspired Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Review James Benmore, Dodger (2013), about Charles Dickens' character The Artful Dodger, who returns to London from an Australian penal colony in search of treasure. M.M. Bennetts, May 1812 A.L. Berridge, Into the Valley of Death (2012), about a British soldier who clashes with his incompetent superiors, who may be under an evil influence, during the Crimean War. Rachel Billington, Maria and the Admiral (2012), about the widowed travel writer Maria Graham, living in Chile in 1822 when Admiral Thomas Cochrane arrives there on his way to a military campaign in Brazil. Review at The Independent Carol Birch, Jamrach’s Menagerie (2011), about a street urchin recruited to join a whaling ship's voyage in search of a dragon. Review Jessica Blair, Stay With Me (2009), about a young woman who expected to inherit a share of her father's shipping business, only to see the entire business go to her stepbrother after her parents die in the 1879 collapse of the Tay Rail Bridge. Jill Blee, Brigid, set during the nineteenth century Irish potato famine. Faye L. Booth, Trades of the Flesh (2009), about a young prostitute in 1888 London who wishes to change her trade after she meets a surgeon and begins helping him find corpses for dissection, an activity as dangerous as prostitution. William Boyd, Love Is Blind (2018), about a young Scottish musician who travels to Paris to escape his tyrranical father and falls in love with a beautiful Russian soprano. Clare Boylan, Emma Brown: A Novel From the Unfinished Manuscript by Charlotte Brontë, about a plain young woman enrolled at a ladies' boarding school who turns out not to be the heiress she claimed to be; based on a fragment by Charlotte Brontë. John Boyne, This House is Haunted (2013), a Dickensian ghost story about a young woman who takes a job as governess in 1867 and discovers that her charges are two children living alone in a manor in a remote part of Norfolk. Paula Brackston, The Winter Witch (2013), a paranormal romance about a mute woman with mysterious abilities who marries a drover in a Welsh village. Barbara Taylor Bradford, Master Of His Fate (2018), about a self-made-man in Victorian England who has the opportunity to rebuild his fortune after tragedy strikes his family. James Bradley, The Resurrectionist (2007), about the grave robbers who supplied cadavers for nineteenth century medical students. Melvyn Bragg, Maid of Buttermere (1988), about John Hatfield, a bigamist, and the lovely and unsuspecting shepherdess, Mary Robinson, whom he married in England's Lake District in 1802. Anne Brear, The Day Embroidered (2013), about a Yorkshire woman who agrees to marry an old flame who offers to help her reconcile with her family. Wallace Breem, The Leopard and the Cliff (1978), about a quietly heroic British officer during the 1919 war between India and Afghanistan. Review Gerri Brightwell, The Dark Lantern (2008), about a late nineteenth century housemaid who must conceal the fact that her mother was hanged as a murderess when she takes a job with a forensic scientist and his wife, who has secrets of her own. Debra Brown, The Companion of Lady Holmeshire Eli Brown, Cinnamon and Gunpowder (2013), a humorous romance about a chef kidnapped by a female pirate in 1819. Sian Busby, McNaughten (2009), about a despairing Scotsman who shoots at the Prime Minister's private secretary on a London Street in 1843, and his trial, the outcome of which will have a permanent effect on English law. A.S. Byatt, Possession, a literary novel about two young scholars in contemporary Britain researching a pair of Victorian writers and their love affair. Elizabeth Byrd, The Famished Land: A Novel of the Irish Potato Famine, about a young woman’s struggle to survive during the nineteenth century potato famine. Sandra Byrd, Mist of Midnight (2015), about a young woman who returns to her family estate in Hampshire after the rest of her family is killed during the Indian Mutiny, to discover that a distant relative has taken possession of the house after an imposter tried to claim it. Rita Cameron, Ophelia's Muse (2015), about Lizzie Siddal, who modeled for several Pre-Raphaelite artists, especially Dante Gabriel Rossetti, whom she married. Peter Carey, Jack Maggs, about an outlaw recently returned to London from an Australian prison colony. Peter Carey, The Chemistry of Tears (2012), about a present-day woman working to restore a nineteenth-century automaton, and the story of the Englishman who originally commissioned the automaton to entertain his consumptive son. Jamie Carie, The Duchess and the Dragon, a Regency romance about a woman torn between two men; Christian message. Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus, about a trapeze artist. Alison Case, Nelly Dean (2016), a reimagining of Emily Brontë's novel Wuthering Heights from the viewpoint of the family servant. Jonatha Ceely, Mina, about a young woman who loses her family during the Irish potato famine and goes to work on an English estate after her attempt to emigrate to America fails. Jonatha Ceely, Bread and Dreams, about a young Irish woman who dresses as a boy and takes a job on a ship so she can emigrate to America after losing her family in the potato famine; sequel to Mina. Loretta Chase, Don't Tempt Me (2009), a Regency romance about a woman whose travels in the East have taught her more about the sensual arts than is proper for a young Englishwoman to know.
Marion Chesney, Perfecting Fiona Marion Chesney, Enlightening Delilah Marion Chesney, Finessing Clarissa Marion Chesney, Animating Maria Marion Chesney, Marrying Harriet
Clare Clark, The Great Stink (2005), about an engineer building a new system to replace the overwhelmed London sewers in the mid-nineteenth century. Clare Clark, Beautiful Lies (2012), about the wife of a liberal Scottish MP and the secrets of her past that endanger her husband's career. Review Lindsay Clarke, The Chymical Wedding (1989), a literary novel about a contemporary poet and a nineteenth century alchemist, united across time by mysterious dreams. Anne Cleeland, Daughter of the God-King
Paul Fraser Collard, The Maharajah's General (2013), about a British soldier who impersonates a dead officer and goes to India to take command of the officer's regiment; #2 in the Jack Lark series. Paul Fraser Collard, Rogue (2014), a novella and prequel to The Scarlet Thief, about a pot boy at his mother's London gin shop and his struggle to rise in society; #3 in the Jack Lark series. Paul Fraser Collard, The Devil's Assassin (2015), about a British soldier in 1857 Bombay who must find and unmask a spy; #4 in the Jack Lark series. Paul Fraser Collard, The Lone Warrior (2015), about a British soldier who, while on his way home, becomes caught in the Delhi mutiny; #5 in the Jack Lark series. Paul Fraser Collard, The Last Legionnaire (2016; also titled The Forgotten Son), about a British soldier who a returns to a London now strange to him and, in a desperate moment, makes a mistake that leads him back to the battlefield; #6 in the Jack Lark series.
Gloria Cook, Out of Shadows (2007), about the young widow of a tyrannical husband whose stepson creates problems for her and her village; #2 in the Meryen Saga. Gloria Cook, All in a Day (2008), about the women in a poor copper-mining village and their struggles to survive and find love; #3 in the Meryen Saga. Gloria Cook, Holding the Light (2008), about a sixteen-year-old girl whose bullying father takes over the farm she has inherited; #4 in the Meryen Saga. Gloria Cook, Dream Chasers (2009), about a young woman in a poor copper-mining village who is unaware of the squire's love for her; #5 and last in the Meryen Saga.
Catherine Cookson, The Black Velvet Gown (1984), about a working-class widow in the 1830s whose ability to read and write is both a gift and a problem. Catherine Cookson, The Harrogate Secret (1988), about a young smuggler in Tyneside. Catherine Cookson, The Gillyvors (1990, also titled The Love Child), about the six children of an unmarried couple and their efforts to rise above the shame of being born gillyvors, bastards. Catherine Cookson, The Rag Nymph (1991), about a woman who works as a rag trader in the 1850s and the seven-year-old girl who transforms her life. Catherine Cookson, The Maltese Angel (1992), about a man condemned by his rural community for marrying a beautiful dancer from outside the village instead of his childhood sweetheart. Catherine Cookson, The Golden Straw (1993), about a young woman whose life is changed by the gift of an exceptional straw hat when she wears it on a holiday trip in Nice. Catherine Cookson, The Desert Crop (1997), a coming-of-age story about a boy in a farming family whose widowed father marries in the hope of receiving his new wife's expected inheritance. Review
Thomas B. Costain, The Tontine Dilly Court, A Loving Family Michael Crichton, The Great Train Robbery (1973), about an audaciously clever plot in Victorian London to rob a train carrying a fortune in gold. Elaine Crowley, Kilgoran John Crowley, Lord Byron's Novel (2005), about Lord Byron's daughter Ada and a novel Byron might have written. John Crowley, Little, Big (2002), literary historical fantasy about a man who marries a woman living in a nineteenth century mansion designed by a visionary architect and becomes acquainted with other dimensions of time and possibility. Jeanine Cummins, The Crooked Branch (2013), about a present-day New York mother who discovers her Irish great-grandmother's diary from the time of the Great Famine. Catherine Czerkawska, The Physic Garden Stevie Davies, Awakening (2013), a literary novel about two sisters in 1860 Wiltshire a year after the publication of Darwin's The Origin of Species. Katy Darby, The Whores' Asylum Saul David, Zulu Hart (2009), about the bastard son of an English general and a Zulu mother who grows up in England, but then becomes a soldier in South Africa just before the Zulu War begins; #1 in the Zulu Hart series. Saul David, Hart of Empire (2010), about a British officer, the bastard son of an English general and a Zulu mother, who is sent on a secret mission to Afghanistan; #2 in the Zulu Hart series.
Gideon Defoe, The Pirates! In an Adventure with Ahab (2005; also titled The Pirates! In an Adventure with Moby Dick), the humorous tale of a pirate captain who buys a new ship on credit and decides to capture the notorious White Whale for the reward offered by Ahab; #2 in the Pirates! series. Gideon Defoe, The Pirates! In an Adventure with Communists (2006), the humorous tale of a pirate captain who is imprisoned in 1840 because he is mistaken for Karl Marx; #3 in the Pirates! series. Gideon Defoe, The Pirates! In an Adventure with Napoleon (2008), the humorous tale of a pirate captain passed over for a "Pirate of the Year" award who decides to raise bees on the Isle of St. Helena instead, just as the defeated Napoleon Bonaparte is sent there; #4 in the Pirates! series. Gideon Defoe, The Pirates! In an Adventure with the Romantics (2012), the humorous tale of a pirate captain who goes with his crew on vacation at Lake Geneva, where they encounter Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and Shelley's fiancée, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin; #5 in the Pirates! series.
R.F. Delderfield, Theirs Was the Kingdom, #2 in the Swann Family Saga. R.F. Delderfield, Give Us This Day, #3 in the Swann Family Saga. Leslie Dicken, A Tarnished Heart, about a pastor's daughter in Victorian England who is in love with her father's curate, but instead is forced into an unhappy marriage with an aristocrat. Michelle Diener, Banquet of Lies (2013), about a young woman working as a spy who poses as a cook in an aristocratic household. E.A. Dinely, The Death of Lyndon Wilder and the Consequences Thereof Elaine diRollo, A Proper Education for Girls (forthcoming in April 2009), a comic novel set in 1857 about twin sisters in England who are separated when their father marries one to a missionary in India and makes the other curator of his artifact collection. Julianne Donaldson, Edenbrooke (2012), Regency romance about a "dull" young woman sent to Bath while her elegant twin is treated to a season in London. Julianne Donaldson, Blackmoore: A Proper Romance (2013), Regency romance about a woman determined to remain unwed after her mother and sisters have scandalized society.
Jennifer Donnelly, The Winter Rose, about a woman doctor in London who becomes involved with a gangster; #2 in the Tea Rose trilogy. Jennifer Donnelly, The Wild Rose (2011), about a group of young people in London on the eve of World War I; #3 in the Tea Rose trilogy.
Emma Donoghue, The Wonder (2016), about a pious eleven-year-old Irish girl who remains healthy despite refusing food, and the journalist sent to cover her story; based on the history of the "Fasting Girls" who claimed to live on air. Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn, a young woman faces danger in nineteenth century Cornwall. Daphne du Maurier, Julius, about an ambitious French peasant who builds a fortune in nineteenth century England. Daphne du Maurier, My Cousin Rachel, a novel of suspense set in nineteenth century Cornwall. Daphne du Maurier, The Loving Spirit, a family saga set in nineteenth century Cornwall. Brian Duncan, The Settler Catherine Dunne, Another Kind of Life, about three middle class Dublin sisters and two working class sisters in Belfast in late nineteenth century Ireland. Lynn D'Urso, Heartbroke Bay (2010), about a young Englishwoman who elopes in 1898 and travels to Alaska where she and her husband struggle for survival during a bitterly harsh winter. Arabella Edge, Fields of Ice (2011), about the cook for Sir John Franklin’s doomed final expedition in search of the Northwest Passage and Franklin's wife's efforts to find her husband. Robert Edric, Gathering the Water (2006), a literary novel about a man charged with the task of overseeing the flooding of a valley in northern England in 1847. Robert Edric, The Broken Lands: A Novel of Arctic Disaster (1992), a literary novel about an 1845 British expedition to find "the Northwest Passage" which became trapped in Arctic ice. Erica Eisdorfer, The Wet Nurse's Tale (2009), about a working-class mother in 1847 England who becomes a wet-nurse after becoming pregnant and losing her job, and must leave her own baby to nurse those of other women. Review or Author Interview Charles Elford, Black Mahler (2011), about Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, a London man of mixed white and black African parentage who struggles for acceptance in Victorian England and becomes a composer; self-published. Erastes, Standish (2006), gay historical erotica about two men and their love affair in Georgian England. Erastes, Frost Fair Barbara Erskine, Whispers in the Sand (2011), about a present-day woman who retraces her great-grandmother's nineteenth-century cruise on the Nile and discovers, while reading her diary, the mysterious dangers posed by an ancient scent bottle she has brought along. Karen Essex, Dracula in Love: The Private Diary of Mina Harker (2010), a retelling of Bram Stoker's Dracula story as a darkly passionate romance. Bernardine Evaristo, Blonde Roots (2008), alternative history about a white European child kidnapped and sent into slavery on a Caribbean island controlled by black overlords. Barbara Ewing, Rosetta (2006), about a nineteenth century English woman interested in heiroglyphics. Barbara Ewing, The Mesmerist (2007), about a nineteenth century English actress who becomes a phreno-mesmerist when she is unable to find work on the stage. Barbara Ewing, The Petticoat Men Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White (2002), a bestselling literary novel about a prostitute striving for a better life in Victorian London. Sebastian Faulks, Human Traces, about the fledgling years of psychiatry during the late nineteenth century. Lyndsay Faye, Jane Steele (2016), a reimagining of the Jane Eyre story, portraying Jane as a gutsy, heroic serial killer. Julian Fellowes, Belgravia (2016), about a ball given on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo and one of the women at the ball, the daughter of Wellington's chief supplier, whose life will be changed that night. Sherry Lynn Ferguson, Merely a Mister Max Fincher, The Pretty Gentleman Laura Fish, Strange Music Valerie Fitzgerald, Zemindar Richard Flanagan, Wanting (2009), about Charles Dickens and his efforts to assist the widow of Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin in clearing his name from accusations of cannibalism. James Fleming, Thomas Gage Ken Follett, A Dangerous Fortune (1993), about a banking family in Victorian England whose fortunes are built on a foundation of corruption and murder. Margaret Forster, Lady's Maid (1991), about "Wilson," the lady's maid of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Adam Foulds, The Quickening Maze (2009), about British nature poet John Clare in 1840 when his struggles with alcohol and depression brought him to an asylum in Epping Forest. Review at the Boston Globe John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman, a literary novel about a love affair in Victorian England, with alternative endings. Essie Fox, The Somnambulist (2011), about a young woman in Victorian England who begins exploring dark family secrets after the death of her beautiful aunt, a singer in a music hall. Essie Fox, The Goddess and the Thief Ronald Frame, Havisham (2012), a novel which imagines the life as a young woman of Miss Havisham from Dickens' novel Great Expectations.
George MacDonald Fraser, Royal Flash (1970), a humorous novel about a charming scoundrel and his adventures as a British soldier during the 1848 Revolutions in Europe; #2 in the Flashman series. George MacDonald Fraser, Flash for Freedom! (1971), a humorous novel about a charming scoundrel and his adventures as a British soldier after being captured by the U.S. Navy; #3 in the Flashman series. George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman at the Charge (1973), a humorous novel about a charming scoundrel and his adventures as a British soldier during the Crimean War; #4 in the Flashman series. George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman in the Great Game (1975), a humorous novel about a charming scoundrel and his adventures as a British soldier in India during the Sepoy Mutiny; #5 in the Flashman series. George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman's Lady (1977), a humorous novel about a charming scoundrel in the British army who must rescue his wife when she is kidnapped in Singapore; #6 in the Flashman series. George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman and the Redskins (1982), a humorous novel about a charming scoundrel in the British army and his adventures when he flees across the American West with a New Orleans madam; #7 in the Flashman series. George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman and the Dragon (1985), a humorous novel about a charming scoundrel in the British army who discovers he is carrying guns to the Taiping Rebels in China rather than the opium he thought he was smuggling; #8 in the Flashman series. George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman and the Mountain of Light (1990), a humorous novel about a charming scoundrel and his adventures as a British soldier in India, where he acquired the Koh-i-Noor Diamond; #9 in the Flashman series. George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman and the Angel of the Lord (1994), a humorous novel about a charming scoundrel in the British army and his adventures in the U.S. where he becomes involved in John Brown's Harper's Ferry Raid; #10 in the Flashman series. George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman and the Tiger (1999), a collection of three stories about a charming scoundrel in the British army; #11 in the Flashman series. George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman on the March (2005), a humorous novel about a charming scoundrel and his adventures as a British soldier in Abyssinia; #12 in the Flashman series.
Joanna Fulford, The Wayward Governess Jean Fullerton, Hold on to Hope, (2012), historical romance about a woman in London's East End whose husband returns from prison shortly before she meets a man for whom she feels a strong attraction. Damon Galgut, Arctic Summer (2014), about the years English author E.M. Forster spent in India, which inspired his novel A Passage to India. (1920s) Matthew Gallaway, The Metropolis Case (2010), about an opera singer in nineteenth-century Paris and three people involved with music in 1960s New York whose lives are all touched by Wagner's Tristan and Isolde. Rosie Garland, The Palace of Curiosities Elizabeth Garner, The Ingenious Edgar Jones (2009), about a clever boy who declines a university education and goes to work for a blacksmith instead, where an Oxford professor finds him and recognizes his unique gifts. Catherine Gaskin, Falcon for a Queen, about a young woman raised in China who returns to her grandfather's estate in Scotland, where he runs a whiskey distillery. Hazel Gaynor, A Memory of Violets (2015), about two orphaned Irish sisters who become separated in 1870s London, and the young woman in 1912 who discovers the notebook of one of the sisters. Hazel Gaynor, The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter (2018), about two women living in lighthouses, one in Northumberland, England, in 1838, and one in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1938. Sue Gee, The Mysteries of Glass Denise Giardina, Emily's Ghost (2009), about Emily Brontë and the idealistic clergyman William Weightman, a champion of rights for mill workers. Elisabeth Gifford, The Sea House (2014), about a couple who buy a house in Scotland's Outer Hebrides in the 1990s, and a previous resident in the 1860s, a newly ordained vicar and amateur scientist who hopes to uncover the truth behind the legend of the selkies. Daisy Goodwin, The Fortune Hunter (2014), about an heiress in love with a horseman who becomes infatuated with Empress Elisabeth of Austria. Elizabeth Goudge, Green Dolphin Street, about a pair of sisters from the Channel Islands and the man they both love, who emigrates to New Zealand and sends for one sister to become his wife, but absent-mindedly writes the other sister's name in his letter. Posie Graeme-Evans, The Dressmaker (2010), about a girl who grows up poor in rural Norfolk, and later makes her living as a dress designer to the "Great Six Hundred," the aristocrats of England. Brendan Graham, The Whitest Flower Laurie Graham, The Night In Question (2015), about two childhood friends who rediscover each other in Victorian London, one a success on the stage, the other poor, in the time of Jack the Ripper. Christina Green, The Far Land (2009 in the U.K.), historical romance about a young woman in a seaside village in Devon in 1888 who longs to travel, but is not sure who would make the best companion for her travels or her life. Julia Gregson, The Water Horse T.D. Griggs, Distant Thunder, (2012), about the son of British colonials in India who goes to England determined to get revenge on the man who assaulted and killed his mother, but whose plans are disrupted by falling in love. Romesh Gunesekera, The Prisoners of Paradise, (2012), about a young Englishwoman who goes to live with family on their plantation in Mauritius in 1825, where she becomes attracted to a Ceylonese translator amid growing protests against slavery. George Hagen, Tom Bedlam (2007), a sprawling novel about a boy born into poverty in Victorian London who emigrates to South Africa after his education is sponsored by a wealthy relative and he becomes a physician. Helen Halstead, The Imaginary Gentleman: A Regency Intrigue, about a woman who encounters a mysterious gentleman as a storm is brewing in 1806 Lyme Regis; not readily available outside the U.K. Darci Hannah, The Exile of Sara Stevenson (2010), about a young Scottish woman sent to a remote lighthouse in 1814 after her lover mysteriously vanishes, leaving her pregnant. Charlotte Hardy, The Road Home Charlotte Hardy, Sarah Bruno Hare, The Lost Kings (2010), about a watchmaker who sets out to find treasure along the border between Indian and Afghanistan after a criminal's watch comes into his possession in 1893. Jane Harris, The Observations (2006), about a young woman hired as a servant for an odd employer in nineteenth-century Scotland. Review Jane Harris, Gillespie and I (2011), about an elderly spinster who recalls the story of a talented artist friend and the mysterious and disturbing events behind a criminal trial. Review at the Guardian William Harrison, Burton and Speke
Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, The Devil’s Horse, a family saga set in 1820 England; #16 in the Morland Dynasty series. Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, The Poison Tree, a family saga set in 1831 England; #17 in the Morland Dynasty series. Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, The Abyss, a family saga set in 1833 England; #18 in the Morland Dynasty series. Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, The Hidden Shore, a family saga set in 1843 England; #19 in the Morland Dynasty series. Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, The Winter Journey, a family saga set in 1851 England; #20 in the Morland Dynasty series. Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, The Outcast, a family saga set in 1857 England and America; #21 in the Morland Dynasty series. Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, The Mirage, a family saga set in 1870 England; #22 in the Morland Dynasty series. Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, The Cause, a family saga set in 1874 England; #23 in the Morland Dynasty series. Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, The Homecoming, a family saga set in 1885 England; #24 in the Morland Dynasty series. Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, The Question, a family saga set in 1898 England; #25 in the Morland Dynasty series.
Philip Hensher, The Mulberry Empire, about the British invasion of Afghanistan in the 1830s. Review Kate Hewitt, Far Horizons Kate Hewitt, Another Country
Georgette Heyer, An Infamous Army (1937), classic Regency romance from the queen of the genre, about a beautiful young widow whose behavior leaves much to be desired amid the social whirl in Brussels as the Battle of Waterloo rages nearby; a sequel to Regency Buck that can be read as a stand-alone. Georgette Heyer, The Corinthian (1938; also titled Beau Wyndham), classic Regency romance from the queen of the genre, about two young people who meet by chance while both are fleeing from the prospect of unwanted marriages. Georgette Heyer, Faro's Daughter (1941), classic Regency romance from the queen of the genre, about a young woman who manages a gaming house for her aunt but hopes to repair their reputations while fending off unwanted marriage proposals. Georgette Heyer, Friday's Child (1944), classic Regency romance from the queen of the genre, about an impetuous young man who, on being rejected by the woman he proposes to, vows to marry the next woman who crosses his path, who happens to be the impoverished girl who has adored him all her life. Georgette Heyer, The Reluctant Widow (1946), classic Regency romance from the queen of the genre, about a woman who boards the wrong stagecoach and lands on the doorstep of a ruined estate, where she is persuaded to marry the dying heir. Georgette Heyer, The Foundling (1948), a less romance-driven Regency about a wealthy young aristocrat about to dutifully enter an arranged marriage when he jumps at an unexpected chance to masquerade as a man without title or fortune. Georgette Heyer, Arabella (1949), classic Regency romance from the queen of the genre, about a parson's daughter who, in a fit of pique, pretends to be an heiress who has no interest in the season's most eligible bachelor. Review Georgette Heyer, The Grand Sophy (1950), classic Regency romance from the queen of the genre, about an independent young woman who returns from her tour of the Continent and begins managing her relatives' lives, inspiring a plan to find her a husband. Georgette Heyer, The Quiet Gentleman (1951), classic Regency romance from the queen of the genre, about a war hero and heir who returns home to his resentful stepmother and half-brother and faces as much peril at home as he did fighting in the Napoleonic Wars. Georgette Heyer, Cotillion (1953), classic Regency romance from the queen of the genre, about a young woman whose miserly guardian tells her she must wed one of her cousins to inherit his fortune, or be left destitute. Review Georgette Heyer, The Toll-Gate (1954), a Regency romance that is also a mystery, about a military officer who stumbles across a case of murder when he takes pity on a boy collecting tolls on a rainy night. Georgette Heyer, Bath Tangle (1955), about the romantic dilemmas of two young woman, the spinster daughter and the young widow of a wealthy man whose estate is inherited by a nephew. Review Georgette Heyer, Sprig Muslin (1956), classic Regency romance from the queen of the genre, about a long-bereaved bachelor who finally decides to marry out of duty and chooses an apparently unremarkable spinster. Georgette Heyer, April Lady (1957), classic Regency romance from the queen of the genre, about an inexperienced young wife who conceals her money-management problems from her husband. Georgette Heyer, Sylvester; or the Wicked Uncle (1957), classic Regency romance from the queen of the genre, about a aristocrat looking for a wife who is startled when a young woman he assumed would be overjoyed by his interest reacts coolly. Georgette Heyer, Venetia (1958), classic Regency romance from the queen of the genre, about a woman on the verge of spinsterhood who resolves never to marry except for love, despite the responsibilities she has taken on after her parents die. Georgette Heyer, The Unknown Ajax (1959), classic Regency romance from the queen of the genre, about a young man spurned by his father's relatives because his mother is a commoner, who is suddenly accepted as heir when the previous heir dies. Georgette Heyer, A Civil Contract (1961), classic Regency romance from the queen of the genre, about a plain heiress in love with an impoverished aristocrat who loves someone else. Georgette Heyer, The Nonesuch (1962), classic Regency romance from the queen of the genre, about a governess struggling to restrain her beautiful but badly behaved charge as a pair of wealthy and eligible men arrive in their country village. Georgette Heyer, False Colours (1963), classic Regency romance from the queen of the genre, about a man who impersonates his missing twin brother in order to please his mother by proposing to a young woman on his brother's behalf. Georgette Heyer, Frederica (1965), classic Regency romance from the queen of the genre, about a young woman who sets out to persuade a titled distant cousin to sponsor her beautiful younger sister's debutante season in London. Georgette Heyer, The Black Sheep (1966), classic Regency romance from the queen of the genre, a 28-year-old spinster who is impatient with the proprieties finds herself responsible for instilling them in her impetuous niece. Georgette Heyer, Cousin Kate (1968), classic Regency romance from the queen of the genre, about an innocent young woman who accepts an invitation to stay with an aunt who pressures her to marry her mentally disturbed cousin. Georgette Heyer, Charity Girl (1970), classic Regency romance from the queen of the genre, about a viscount who encounters a naive young woman running away to find her grandfather, feels honor-bound to protect her from harm, and then must go to great lengths to protect both her and himself from social ruin. Georgette Heyer, Lady of Quality (1972), classic Regency romance from the queen of the genre, about a spinster who enjoys her independence and a man with a notorious reputation.
Jack Higgins, Pay the Devil, about a Confederate colonel who migrates to Ireland and becomes involved in the Fenian Rising. Susan Hill, The Woman in Black (1983), a ghost story about a young solicitor who travels to an isolated house on a moor to settle an estate during the Christmas season and encounters sinister, supernatural events. Pauline Holdstock, The Turning Linda Holeman, The Linnet Bird, about the respectable wife of a British colonial officer in India haunted by her past as a London prostitute. Sheri Holman, The Dress Lodger, a poor young woman struggles to keep a son with a birth defect alive in nineteenth century England. Emma Hornby, A Shilling for a Wife (2017), about a new mother in 1860s England who flees the brutal husband who "bought" her from a workhouse. Audrey Howard, The Flight of Swallows (2009), historical romance about a sixteen-year-old Yorkshire girl who marries a man she does not love in order to escape her cruel father. Victor Hugo, The Toilers of the Sea, set on Guernsey Island in the nineteenth century. Aislinn Hunter, The World Before Us (2015), about a present-day woman haunted by the disappearance of a girl she was babysitting from a woods near an abandoned asylum, and a woman who disappeared in the same woods 125 years earlier. Lindsey Hutchinson, The Lost Sisters (2017), about two sisters in the "Black Country" of Victorian England, both rejected by their mother, one growing up amid riches and the other a poor foundling. Jane Jackson, Heart of Stone
Anna Jacobs, The Trader's Sister (2012), about a young Irishwoman whose dream is to escape her brutal father by joining her brother in Australia; #2 in the Trader series. Anna Jacobs, The Trader's Dream (2013), about an Irishwoman who brings three orphaned children to Australia in the hope that a relative will adopt them; #3 in the Trader series.
Brenda Jagger, Flint and Roses Brenda Jagger, The Sleeping Sword Brenda Jagger, A Song Twice Over Brenda Jagger, Distant Choices
Syrie James, The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Brontë (2009), about the novelist Charlotte Brontë and her romance with Arthur Bell Nichols. Syrie James, Dracula, My Love (2010), a reimagining of the Dracula story in the form of Mina Harker's secret journals about her love affair with the count. Stephen Jarvis, Death and Mr. Pickwick (2015), about Robert Seymour, the illustrator of Dickens' Pickwick Papers. Dinah Jefferies, The Tea Planter's Wife Janette Jenkins, Little Bones (2012), about a young crippled girl, abandoned by her family, who becomes the assistant to an unlicensed doctor whose clientele are actresses. Maggie Joel, Half the World in Winter Ken Kalfus, Equilateral (2013), about a British astronomer and his disaster-plagued effort to dig a huge perfect triangle in the Egyptian desert in order to communicate with the planet Mars in the late nineteenth century. Mary Pat Kelly, Galway Bay (2009), about an Irish family who decide to emigrate to America during the potato famine. Sean Kenny, The Hungry Earth
Garry Douglas Kilworth, The Valley of Death Garry Douglas Kilworth, Soldiers in the Mist Garry Douglas Kilworth, The Winter Soldiers Garry Douglas Kilworth, Attack on the Redan Garry Douglas Kilworth, Brothers of the Blade Garry Douglas Kilworth, Rogue Officer (2007), about a British soldier abducted and accused of desertion before he can get back to his unit, just as the Indian Mutiny is coming to an end; #7 in the "Fancy Jack" Crossman series. Garry Douglas Kilworth, Kiwi Wars (2008), about a British officer sent to New Zealand in 1860 to set up a spy network among the Maori, who are in revolt; #8 in the "Fancy Jack" Crossman series.
Peg Kingman, Not Yet Drown'd, about a Scottish woman who travels to India in search of her twin brother in 1822. Rudyard Kipling, Kim (1901), about the orphaned son of an Irish soldier who grows up as a street urchin in India and is recruited as a spy in the "Great Game" of the British to control central Asia. Rudyard Kipling, The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories (1888 for The Man Who Would Be King), a collection of short stories; the title story is about a pair of nineteenth century British adventurers who scheme to become kings in Afghanistan.
Lisa Kleypas, It Happened One Autumn (2005), historical romance about a young American heiress whose independent ways are disapproved in Victorian England, especially by the man she falls for; #2 in the Wallflower series. Lisa Kleypas, The Devil in Winter (2006), historical romanceabout a shy young woman due to receive a large inheritance who marries a rake on the condition they remain celibate, in order to foil her scheming relatives; #3 in the Wallflower series. Lisa Kleypas, Scandal in Spring (2006), historical romance about a young woman who fails to snare a husband three years in a row and is given an ultimatum by her father; #4 in the Wallflower series. Lisa Kleypas, A Wallflower Christmas (2008), about a good-looking American man who comes to London to court a bride from an aristocratic family but needs help adjusting to English manners; #5 in the Wallflower series.
Sheila Kohler, Becoming Jane Eyre (2009), a biographical novel about Charlotte Brontë, the author of Jane Eyre, and her family.
Mary Robinette Kowal, Glamour in Glass (2012), Regency romance fantasy about a young bride honeymooning in Belgium when Napoleon's escape from exile puts them in peril, and she must use her magical skills to get her husband out of prison; #2 in the Glamourist Histories series. Mary Robinette Kowal, Without a Summer (2013), Regency romance fantasy about a young couple in London, where they must find a husband for a debutante and solve an international crisis; #3 in the Glamourist Histories series. Mary Robinette Kowal, Valour and Vanity (2014), Regency romance fantasy about a young couple attacked by pirates while on their way to Murano to study glassblowing; #4 in the Glamourist Histories series.
Emery Lee, Fortune’s Son (2011), historical romance about a gambler whose effort at reform is thwarted and a woman who has renounced love but wants him to teach her how to win at cards. Jacqueline Lepore, Descent Into Dust (2010), a gothic fantasy novel about a young woman who visits a remote manor house on the moors and discovers she is destined to be a vampire hunter. Nell Leyshon, The Colour of Milk
Johanna Lindsey, The Devil Who Tamed Her (2007), historical romance about a beautiful woman who, having spurned the man she was engaged to marry, finds that her parents have arranged her (carefully chaperoned) kidnapping by a man who vows he can tame her sharp tongue and make her marriageable; #2 in the Reid Family series. Johanna Lindsey, A Rogue of My Own (2009), historical romance about a woman appointed a maid of honor in Queen Victoria's court who is forced into marriage with a reluctant suitor after he seduces her and she becomes pregnant; #3 in the Reid Family series. David Liss, The Twelfth Enchantment (2011), historical fantasy about a young woman whose father's death forces her to live with her tyrannical uncle until the notorious poet Lord Byron arrives with a cryptic message for her. David Lodge, A Man of Parts (2011), about the aging author H.G. Wells looking back on his life and his relationships.
Norah Lofts, Jassy Norah Lofts, To See a Fine Lady Norah Lofts, A Calf for Venus (1949; also titled Letty Norah Lofts, Lovers All Untrue Norah Lofts, Charlotte Norah Lofts, Gad's Hall (1977), about a modern-day woman who moves into an old house with her family and begins to have supernatural experiences that hearken back to the terrible secret of the people who lived there in the 1840s; available with The Haunting of Gad's Hall in a single edition Norah Lofts, The Haunting of Gad's Hall (1978; also titled Haunted House Norah Lofts, The Day of the Butterfly (1979), a Regency romance about a young woman who seems doomed to the life of a prostitute after being fired from her nursemaid job, until an artist asks her to model for him.
Claire Lorrimer, The Wilderling Claire Lorrimer, Fool's Curtain
Elizabeth Lowry, Dark Water (2018), about a ship's doctor and the hero who saved men from a mutiny, and the bond formed between them during a terrifying 1833 voyage around Cape Horn that drives one of them insane. Elizabeth Ludwig, No Safe Harbor (2012), about an Irish woman who travels to America in 1896 in search of her brother and falls in love with a man who may be dangerous; Christian message; #1 in the planned Edge of Freedom series.
Jonathan Lunn, Killigrew and the Golden Dragon, about an officer in the British Royal Navy on a mission against Chinese pirates; #2 in the Killigrew series. Jonathan Lunn, Killigrew and the Incorrigibles, about an officer in the British Royal Navy on a mission in the Pacific Ocean; #3 in the Killigrew series. Jonathan Lunn, Killigrew and the Northwest Passage, about an officer in the British Royal Navy on a mission to find a sea passage through the Arctic from the Atlantic to the Pacific; #4 in the Killigrew series. Jonathan Lunn, Killigrew's Run, about an officer in the British Royal Navy on the eve of the nineteenth century Crimean War; #5 in the Killigrew series. Jonathan Lunn, Killigrew and the Sea Devil, about an officer in the British Royal Navy on a mission involving espionage in nineteenth century Russia; #6 in the Killigrew series.
Rose Macaulay, Told by an Idiot (1923), about the family of a British clergyman whose faith is perpetually in crisis and their lives from the late 1870s into the 1920s. R.A. MacAvoy, The Grey Horse, historical fantasy about a horse who becomes a man; set in late nineteenth century Ireland during the risings against the English.
Malcolm MacDonald, The Rich Are with You Always (1976), about a couple whose climb toward wealth is threatened by the behavior of their friends, a pious woman and her sex-crazed husband; #2 in the Stevenson Family Saga. Malcolm MacDonald, Sons of Fortune (1978), about the four eldest children in a wealthy family, who rebel against their father's strict approach to life; #4 in the Stevenson Family Saga. Malcolm MacDonald, Abigail (1979), about a wealthy young woman and her discovery of sex during the outwardly repressed Victorian era; #4 in the Stevenson Family Saga. Malcolm MacDonald, Rose of Nancemellin
Sarah MacLean, Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake (2010), historical romance about a 28-year-old spinster heiress who decides to recklessly break society's rules and flings herself at the man to whom she has long been attracted. Verna MacLean, Farewell Rhilochan Anne Mallory, Three Nights of Sin (2008), historical romance about a young woman who, to save her brother from the gallows, agrees to do three favors for a mysterious stranger. Mathias Malzieu, The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart (2009), whimsical historical fantasy set in 1874 Edinburgh about a young man with a clock for a heart; written by a French rock star.
Benjamin Markovits, A Quiet Adjustment (2008), about the romantic triangle among Lord Byron, his sister and Lady Annabella Milbanke; #2 in the Byron trilogy. Benjamin Markovits, Childish Loves (2011), about a man who inherits unpublished manuscripts about Lord Byron from a friend and tries to revive his literary career by writing about his friend; #3 in the Byron trilogy.
Beatrice Masini, The Watercolourist (2016), about a young woman staying with a famous poet and his family while she makes watercolor illustratations of the plants in their villa garden near Milan, who becomes curious about the family's many secrets, some potentially dangerous. Daniel Mason, The Piano Tuner (2002), a London piano tuner travels to Burma in 1886. Beryl Matthews, When Midnight Comes (2018), about a strong-willed young woman who in 1856, after her father's death, finds work at a New Forest estate that breeds war horses. Liam McAuley, The Musicians Eugene McCabe, Death and Nightingales, about a Protestant landlord and his Catholic stepdaughter during the strife in Ireland in 1883 after the murder of the British Chief Secretary for Ireland. Roger McDonald, Mr Darwin's Shooter (1999), about Syms Covington, the young sailor befriended by Charles Darwin when they meet aboard the Beagle, who assists in shooting animal specimens in the Galapagos Islands, and is later troubled by the implications of Darwin's theory of evolution. Bernie McGill, The Butterfly Cabinet (2010), about the mistress of an Irish manor house, imprisoned in 1892 after her only daughter dies, and the servant woman who many years later tells her story to a young woman. Betty McInnes, The Longest Journey (2010), about a Scottish woman in 1848 whose son is sentenced to exile in Australia while she tries to hide a secret about her past. Katharine McMahon, The Rose of Sebastopol (2007), about two young Englishwomen who take separate paths from Victorian London to the ravaged battlefields of the Crimean War, one dedicated to nursing the wounded, the other to finding and caring for her army surgeon fiance after she learns he has fallen ill. Elisabeth McNeill, The Storm Elisabeth McNeill, Turn of the Tide Doreen McNicol, Rachel Wicks Jean Mead, The Widow Makers Jean Mead, Strife Valerie Mendes, Larkswood Patrick Mercer, To Do and Die (2009), about a British officer fighting in the Crimean War. Patrick Mercer, Red Runs the Helmand James A. Michener, The Journey, about four English aristocrats and their Irish servant who cope with disaster as they search for gold in 1897 Canada. Jean Jardine Miller, The Family History Susanna Moore, One Last Look, about the experiences of two English sisters and their brother in 1836 Calcutta, where he is serving as governor-general. Jude Morgan, Indiscretion (2006), a romantic comedy about a young woman whose well-meaning but hapless father arranges for her to become the companion of a wealthy widow after he loses all their money. Jude Morgan, Charlotte and Emily (2009; titled The Taste of Sorrow Jude Morgan, A Little Folly (2010), a Regency romance about a brother and sister who finally escape their father's stifling influence when he dies, when the brother embarks on an affair with a married woman, and the sister rejects the man her father wanted her to marry. Kate Morton, The Clockmaker’s Daughter (2018), about a young artist who spends the summer of 1862 in a country house with his friends, where a young woman is killed and a priceless heirloom is stolen, and a present-day archivist who comes across clues to the 150-year-old mystery. Nancy Moser, How Do I Love Thee? (2009), about poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, who was an invalid and recluse oppressed by her controlling father until her future husband Robert came into her life. Margaret Muir, Floating Gold Margaret Muir, The Condor's Feather (2010), about a young Englishwoman who travels to Patagonia in 1885 and embarks on a riding expedition across the Pampas, where her party struggles to survive threats from escaped prisoners, hostile Indians and dangerous wildlife. Janet Mullany, A Most Lamentable Comedy (2009), a Regency romance about a young widow who sets her sights on a handsome gentleman without realizing he is as penniless as she is. Lilian Nattel, Singing Fire (2005), a novel with a touch of magical realism about two immigrant women in London, one in the East End Jewish ghetto and the other in the wealthy West End, and the child who brings them together. Marina Julia Neary, Wynfield's Kingdom Marina Julia Neary, Wynfield's War Sheila Newberry, The Nursemaid's Secret (2018), about a young maid sent from her London home at Christmastime to care for the sick child of a family in the Isle of Sheppey. Elizabeth Newark, Jane Eyre's Daughter (2008), about the daughter of Jane Eyre; a sequel to Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre. Elle Newmark, The Sandalwood Tree (2011), about a historian who travels to Delhi with his wife and son in 1947 as British rule in India comes to an end, where his wife finds 90-year-old letters in a wall of their house and decides to unravel the story behind them. Kate Noble, Compromised (2008), a Regency romance about the less beautiful of two sisters whose wit and spirit nevertheless attract the viscount engaged to marry her sister. Kate Noble, Revealed (2009), a Regency romance about a beauty whose rivalry with another woman over the attentions of a marquis causes her to stumble upon the identity of a famous spy. Joseph O’Connor, The Star of the Sea (2002), about the conflicts among the passengers on a ship sailing from Ireland to New York during the Potato Famine years; a sequel, Redemption Falls, is listed in the Civil War section of the 19th Century America page. Liam O’Flaherty, Famine, about tenant farmers in County Galway, Ireland, during the nineteenth century potato famine. Jean-Pierre Ohl, Mr. Dick; Or, The Tenth Book (2008), about a modern French journalist who discovers a memoir describing the final days of English novelist Charles Dickens. Pamela Oldfield, The Birthday Present (2010), about a London singer offered an unusually large sum to perform at a private birthday party in 1890. Patricia O'Reilly, A Type of Beauty: The Story of Kathleen Newton Lauren Owen, The Quick (2014), historical fantasy about a poet and his sister and a mysterious society of wealthy men in a London stalked by vampires in 1892. Jeremy Page, The Collector of Lost Things (2013), about a naturalist who joins an 1845 Arctic expedition in search of the Great Auk, a bird which may already have been hunted to extinction. Charles Palliser, Rustication (2013), about a Cambridge student sent home to the run-down mansion where his recently impoverished mother and sister live, when a series of disturbing crimes begin in the area. Review David Park, The Poets' Wives (2014), about the wives of nineteenth-century English poet William Blake, early twentieth-century Russian poet Osip Mandelstam, and a fictional Irish poet of the present, and the sacrifices they make for their husbands. Una-Mary Parker, The Fairbairn Girls (2013), about an aristocratic family in Argyllshire that in 1891 falls victim to a curse. Glenn Patterson, The Mill For Grinding Old People Young (2012), about an elderly man recalling his life in Belfast, Ireland, in 1830s and beyond, and his love affair with a Polish exile. Matthew Pearl, The Last Dickens (2009), a thriller about Charles Dickens's American publisher's efforts to find and publish the end of his unfinished last novel, despite murderous opposition. Matthew Pearl, The Last Bookaneer (2015), about a man who steals manuscripts for a living in the late nineteenth century, when loose copyright laws made it possible to publish books without the author’s permission, and sets out to steal the dying Robert Louis Stevenson's last novel. Nicky Penttila, An Untitled Lady Mary Hart Perry, The Wild Princess (2012), about Queen Victoria's free-spirited daughter Princess Louise. Sarah Perry, The Essex Serpent (2016), about a young London widow who visits Essex in the late 1800s with her eleven-year-old son, where she and the village parson are drawn together by rumors of a mysterious serpent. Arthur Phillips, Angelica, in 1880s London, a mother consults a spiritualist after seeing a spectral figure attack her daughter. Caryl Phillips, The Lost Child (2015), about a modern woman who goes to live in the moors of northern England with her children, and the childhood of Heathcliff from Emily Brontë's novel Wuthering Heights. John Pipkin, The Blind Astronomer’s Daughter (2016), about a young Irish woman who discovers that her father, driven to madness and suicide by his envy of a more famous astronomer, left behind an atlas containing important information. Jill Pitkeathley, Dearest Cousin Jane (2010), about the flirtatious and free-spirited Countess Eliza de Feuillide, a cousin of Jane Austen, who comes to England after her husband is guillotined during the French Revolution. Matthew Plampin, The Street Philosopher (2009), about a journalist who becomes a gossip columnist ("street philosopher") on his return from the Crimean War in an unsuccessful effort to forget the horrors he saw there. Jem Poster, Courting Shadows (2008), about a young architect and his conflicts with the villagers when he takes on a restoration job for a neglected country church and decides to clear out elements he considers superstitious and unsound. Christopher Priest, The Prestige, magical realism about a stage magician in the late nineteenth century. Natasha Pulley, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street (2015), about a London man who finds a watch which mysteriously saves his life, and who then goes to Japan in search of its maker. Kate Pullinger, The Mistress of Nothing (2009), about Sally Naldrett, the lady's maid who accompanied Lucie Duff Gordon to Egypt. Review Laura Purcell, The Corset (2018), about a teenaged seamstress awaiting her trial for murder who tells a woman phrenologist she can kill with her stitching. Arthur Quiller-Couch and Daphne du Maurier, Castle Dor (1976), about a Breton onion-seller and a recently wed woman in nineteenth-century Cornwall who are compelled to relive the experiences of their past lives as Tristan and Isolde; begun by Arthur Quiller-Couch and completed by Daphne du Maurier after his death. Julia Quinn, A Night Like This (2012), historical romance about a governess who knows she should not flirt with the nobleman who attracts her. Julian Rathbone, A Very English Agent, about a man who has been a police spy for the past 40 years and wants a pension badly enough to use blackmail; #1 in the Charlie Boylan series. Julian Rathbone, Birth of a Nation, a man who has been a police spy for the past 40 years tells about his adventures in the Galapagos and America; #2 in the Charlie Boylan series. Julian Rathbone, The Mutiny, about a British spy who becomes personally involved in a conspiracy in India; #3 in the Charlie Boylan series. Kalyan Ray, No Country (2014), about Irish emigrants who in 1843, fleeing the potato famine, end up in opposite parts of the world, America and India, and their descendants. Deanna Raybourn, The Dead Travel Fast (2010), historical fantasy about a free-spirited Scottish spinster who goes to stay in a decrepit castle in Transylvania in 1858 and becomes involved with its disturbingly magnetic owner, Count Andrei Dragulescu. Douglas Reeman, Badge of Glory, about a young man serving in the Royal Marines in 1850, in Africa and then the Crimean War; #1 in the Royal Marines Saga. Douglas Reeman, The Horizon, about a young man serving in the Royal Marines during the Boxer Rebellion; #2 in the Royal Marines Saga; for later novels in this series, see the WWI and WWII pages. Tracy Rees, Florence Grace (2016), about a Cornish orphan who, at fifteen, discovers she is related to a wealthy and notorious London family. Rachel Florence Roberts, The Medea Complex Katie Roiphe, Still She Haunts Me (2001), about Charles Dodgson, who wrote Alice in Wonderland and published it under the pen name Lewis Carroll, and his relationship with his young muse Alice Liddell and her family. Meg Rosoff, The Bride's Farewell (2009), about a young woman in rural England during the 1850s who understands horses better than people and flees to the Salisbury Fair instead of marrying her childhood sweetheart. Frances Sands, Daughters of Hunger (2008), about a woman who dies of malnutrition during the Irish Potato Famine and her daughters and granddaughters over the course of 150 years. Anthony Sattin, Winter on the Nile (2010), a novel about 29-year-old Florence Nightingale's 1849 trip to Egypt, which portrays her meeting the young future author Gustave Flaubert and finding the courage to decide on a career in nursing. Graham Sclater, Hatred is the Key Gavin Scott, The Adventures of Toby Wey Susan Sellers, Vanessa and Virginia (2009), about the relationship between novelist Virginia Woolf and her sister Vanessa Bell from Vanessa's perspective. Diane Setterfield, Bellman and Black (2013), about a man whose childhood killing of a rook begins to haunt him after tragedy strikes his family and he makes a bargain with a stranger. Diane Setterfield, Once Upon A River (2018), about a mute girl rescued from drowning in the Thames in the late 1800s and the three different families who want to claim her as their own lost relative. Miranda Seymour, Count Manfred Jacqueline Sheehan, Now and Then (2009), about a modern woman who wakes up one morning to find herself among her ancestors in 1844 Ireland. Sara Sheridan, The Secret Mandarin (forthcoming in Sept. 2009 in the U.K. only), about Robert Fortune, a British botanist who brought tea plants from China to India in the course of his work as a spy for the British in China. George Shipway, The Chilian Club George Shipway, Free Lance George Shipway, Strangers in the Land Enid Shomer, The Twelve Rooms of the Nile (2012), a novel which imagines that on her trip to Egypt in 1850, twenty-nine-year-old Florence Nightingale met Gustave Flaubert and shared a passionate friendship with him that changed both their lives. Review Samantha Silva, Mr Dickens And His Carol (2018), about the author Charles Dickens, and the muse who inspires him when his publishers insist he write a Christmas story. Eve Silver, Dark Desires, gothic romance set in London during the 1820s. Eve Silver, His Dark Kiss, gothic romance set in Wales during the 1820s. Eve Silver, Dark Prince, gothic romance set on the coast of Cornwall during the 1820s. Eve Silver, His Wicked Sins, gothic romance set in Yorkshire during the 1820s. Cheryl Simani, The Cornerstone of Deception Dan Simmons, Drood (2009), a horror novel about the final years of author Charles Dickens. Review Gillian Slovo, An Honourable Man (2011), about a British doctor and his wife who are separated when he volunteers for an 1884 expedition to Khartoum to rescue General Gordon. Anna Small, In the Arms of an Earl Diana Souhami, Gwendolen (2015), about a beautiful young aristocrat who marries a wealthy man after she learns of the loss of her family fortune; a retelling of George Eliot's novel Daniel Deronda from the perspective of Daniel's wife. Susan Squires, The Burning (2006), a vampire romance set in 1821 England. Wesley Stace, Misfortune (2005), about an orphaned boy raised as a girl by a befuddled lord in nineteenth century England. Charlotte St. George, The Wheel of Fortune Sara Stockbridge, Cross My Palm (2011), about a shy young girl in high society London and the fortune-teller who reads her palm but keeps a secret of the ill-fortune she sees in it. Dacre Stoker and Christofer Cook, Dracula of Transylvania (2017), a three-act play based on Bram Stoker's novel Dracula; co-written by Stoker's great-grandnephew. Dacre Stoker and J.D. Barker, Dracul (2018), a novel which imagines the young Bram Stoker spending the night in a desolate tower as he awaits a manifestation of evil, and writing about the events that have brought him there; prequel to Bram Stoker's Dracula, co-written by Stoker's great-grandnephew. Irving Stone, The Origin (1980), a biographical novel about Charles Darwin, who pioneered the concept of evolution after his voyage of discovery on The Beagle. Rebecca Stott, The Coral Thief (2008), about a Scottish medical student and the beautiful young woman who steals from him when they share a stagecoach while traveling to Paris in 1815 in the wake of Napoleoon's defeat.
V.A. Stuart, Brave Captains V.A. Stuart, Hazard's Command, about a British naval officer during the Crimean War; #3 in the Phillip Hazard series. V.A. Stuart, Hazard of Huntress, about a newly promoted ship captain in the British navy sent to spy on the Russians during the Crimean War; #4 in the Phillip Hazard series. V.A. Stuart, Hazard in Circassia V.A. Stuart, Victory at Sebastopol, about a British naval officer during the Crimean War who faces court martial after making a difficult choice during the press of warfare; #6 in the Phillip Hazard series. V.A. Stuart, Guns to the Far East, about a British naval officer in China after the Crimean War who learns his sisters may be in danger during the Sepoy Mutiny; #7 in the Phillip Hazard series. V.A. Stuart, Escape from Hell, about a British naval officer who volunteers to help rescue a besieged British garrison during the Sepoy Mutiny; #8 in the Phillip Hazard series. V.A. Stuart, Victors and Lords, about a British captain in the East India Company during the Crimean War; #1 in the Alexander Sheridan series. V.A. Stuart, The Sepoy Mutiny, about a British officer in India during the Sepoy Mutiny; #2 in the Alexander Sheridan series.
Debbie Taylor, Herring Girl (2014), about a twelve-year-old boy who under hypnosis recalls a past life in a coastal town in 1898 as a herring girl who may have been murdered. Rosie Thomas, The Illusionists (2014), about a woman working as an artist's model who becomes involved with a stage illusionist in 1870. Harry Thompson, This Thing of Darkness (2005; titled To the Edge of the World in the U.S. and published as a trilogy), about the manic-depressive, devoutly Christian captain of the Beagle, the ship that brought Charles Darwin to the Galapagos. Sandi Toksvig, Valentine Grey Christine Trent, By the King’s Design, (2012), historical romance about a woman who travels from Yorkshire to London to ask Parliament's help after Luddites destroy her cloth milling machine, and meets a young cabinet maker there. Carrie Turansky, The Governess of Highland Hall (2013), about the daughter of missionaries who must return from India to England, where she becomes governess on an estate in financial trouble; Christian message. Leon Uris, Trinity (1976), a saga of four families beginning in the time of the Irish Potato Famine. Wendy Wallace, The Painted Bridge (2012), about a sane woman whose husband has her committed to an insane asylum near London in 1859. Wendy Wallace, The Sacred River Sarah Waters, Affinity, about a women’s prison in Victorian London. Sarah Waters, Fingersmith, an orphan girl grows up among a family of petty thieves in nineteenth century London. Review Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet, about a woman who impersonates men on the stage in Victorian London. Katherine Webb, The Misbegotten (2013), about a governess who marries a wine merchant and moves to Bath, where she meets a former soldier haunted by his memories of the Napoleonic Wars whose childhood sweetheart disappeared and was never found. Ian Weir, Will Starling (2014), about a surgeon's assistant in 1816 London who becomes concerned about a successful surgeon's involvement with grave-robbers. Review at the Globe and Mail Deborah Weisgall, The World Before Her (2008), about the nineteenth century British novelist Marian Evans, who wrote under the pen name George Eliot, and a twentieth century woman sculptor, both of whom spend their honeymoons in Venice.
Fay Weldon, Long Live the King (2013), about the family and servants of an English earl at the close of 1901; #2 in the Habits of the House trilogy. Fay Weldon, The New Countess (2013), about the masters and servants on a grand estate as they prepare for a visit from King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra; #3 in the Habits of the House trilogy. Review
Charles Gidley Wheeler, The Believer (1985), about a nineteenth-century man's journey from legal scholar to businessman to grimly rigid adherent of a Christian sect, the Plymouth Brethren. Anne Whitfield, The House of Women (2011), about a young woman who sacrifices her own possibility of happiness so she can protect her six younger sisters from her violent, tyrannical father. Anne Whitfield, Her Shadowed Heart
John Wilcox, The Road to Kandahar (2005), about a young British officer during the 1880 Afghanistan campaign; #2 in the Simon Fonthill series. John Wilcox, The Diamond Frontier (2006), about a young British officer in South Africa during the late nineteenth century; #3 in the Simon Fonthill series. John Wilcox, Last Stand at Majuba Hill (2007), about a young British officer in Africa during the late nineteenth century; #4 in the Simon Fonthill series. John Wilcox, The Guns of El Kebir (2008), about a young British officer in Egypt during the late nineteenth century; #5 in the Simon Fonthill series. John Wilcox, Siege at Khartoum (2009), about a young British officer on an urgent mission to Khartoum to rescue a general besieged by a band of religious warriors; #6 in the Simon Fonthill series. John Wilcox, The Shangani Patrol (2010), about a British officer who, while held captive by an African tribal leader in 1893, discovers a Portuguese plot to undermine the treaty between the tribe and Cecil Rhodes, Africa's richest man; #7 in the Simon Fonthill series. John Wilcox, The War of the Dragon Lady (2012), about a former British officer and his wife caught up in the Boxer Rebellion when they visit her missionary uncle in China; #8 in the Simon Fonthill series. John Wilcox, Fire Across The Veldt (2013), about a former British officer reinstated as the colonel of a cavalry unit as the Boer conflict continues in 1900; #9 in the Simon Fonthill series. John Wilcox, Bayonets along the Border (2014), about a former Army scout who, while traveling in India, is asked to deliver an important letter, amid dangerous unrest; #10 in the Simon Fonthill series. John Wilcox, The Black Rocks of Morwenstow (2016), about a young man shipwrecked off the Cornish coast in 1842 while returning to marry his fiancée.
Lauren Willig, That Summer (2014), about a woman of the present who inherits an old house outside London and begins uncovering its history when she finds a pre-Raphaelite painting of the woman who lived there in 1849. Geoffrey Wilson, Land of Hope and Glory (2011), alternative history/fantasy about a man who becomes the leader of a rebellion against the Indian rulers of England; #1 in the Land of Hope and Glory series. Geoffrey Wilson, The Place of Dead Kings (2013), alternative history/fantasy about a man's quest for a weapon that will free England from rule by India; #2 in the Land of Hope and Glory series. James Wilson, Consolation (2008), about an Edwardian author of children's books whose life and marriage begin to fall apart after the death of his baby daughter. Sandra Wilson, Lady Jane's Ribbons Val Wood, The Harbour Girl (2011), about a sixteen-year-old Scarborough girl in the 1880s who mends fishing nets and must marry her lover after she becomes pregnant, but soon discovers she has made a serious mistake. Val Wood, His Brother’s Wife (2013), about a woman who in 1860 accepts a marriage proposal from a stranger in order to stay out of the workhouse. Geoff Woodland, The Triangle Trade (2013), about a Liverpool slave trader's son who speaks out against the slave trade in 1804, as momentum builds toward the British Trade Act of 1807 which would end it. Janet Woods, The Coal Gatherer Janet Woods, Lady Lightfingers (2011), historical romance about an educated girl from the London slums who must survive as a pickpocket and steals from a man who becomes intrigued by her. Sally Zigmond, Hope Against Hope Mysteries and Thrillers: 19th Century Britain
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse, Mycroft and Sherlock (2018), about the fictional Sherlock Holmes's older brother investigating the killings of Chinese immigrants, with the help of his best friend and his teenaged brother Sherlock; sequel to Mycroft Holmes.
Tasha Alexander, A Poisoned Season (2007), about a young widow being stalked by a cat-burglar who has been stealing treasures that once belonged to Marie Antoinette; #2 in the Lady Emily Ashton mystery series. Tasha Alexander, A Fatal Waltz (2008), about a young widow whose friend's husband is arrested on the accusation of murdering a nobleman during a party; #3 in the Lady Emily Ashton mystery series. Tasha Alexander, Tears of Pearl (2009), about a bride who, during her honeymoon in the Ottoman Empire, is asked to help investigate the murder of one of the Sultan's numerous wives; #4 in the Lady Emily Ashton mystery series. Review Tasha Alexander, Dangerous to Know (2010), about a young wife traumatized by an encounter with a murderer, who when sent to recuperate at her mother-in-law's estate in Normandy encounters a killer who resembles Jack the Ripper; #5 in the Lady Emily Ashton mystery series. Tasha Alexander, A Crimson Warning (2011), about about a young wife who, with her husband's assistance, tries to find out who is terrorizing London's upper crust by revealing their scandalous secrets; #6 in the Lady Emily Ashton mystery series. Tasha Alexander, Death in the Floating City (2012), about about a young wife who rushes to Venice with her husband to help out a former schoolmate she heartily disliked when the woman's husband is murdered; #7 in the Lady Emily Ashton mystery series. Tasha Alexander, Behind the Shattered Glass (2013), about a woman who investigates the murder of the man who lives next to the Darbyshire estate where she and her husband live; #8 in the Lady Emily Ashton mystery series. Tasha Alexander, The Counterfeit Heiress (2014), about a woman and her husband who travel to Paris on the trail of someone who tried to murder a guest at a masquerade ball; #9 in the Lady Emily Ashton mystery series. Tasha Alexander, The Adventuress (2015), about a woman and her husband in Cannes to celebrate an old friend's engagement, when a guest is found dead in the friend's hotel suite; #10 in the Lady Emily Ashton mystery series. Tasha Alexander, A Terrible Beauty (2016), about a woman whose holiday in Greece is interrupted by the arrival of man who claims to be her first husband, believed dead for many years; #11 in the Lady Emily Ashton mystery series. Tasha Alexander, Death in St. Petersburg (2017), about a woman traveling with her diplomat husband in Russia, and her investigation of a famous ballerina's murder; #12 in the Lady Emily Ashton mystery series. Tasha Alexander, Uneasy Lies the Crown (2018), about a woman and her husband, a royal agent, who in 1901 investigate the deaths of men posed to resemble the murdered kings Henry VI and Edward II; #13 in the Lady Emily Ashton mystery series.
Malcolm Archibald, Pryde and the Infernal Device (2008), about an engineer sent to France as a spy to find out whether the French are digging a tunnel under the English Channel, as rumors suggest; #2 in the Matthew Pryde series.
David Ashton, Fall From Grace (2007), about a police inspector in Victorian Edinburgh who investigates a murder at the home of the man who built the ill-fated Tay Bridge; #2 in the Inspector McLevy mystery series. David Ashton, A Trick of the Light (2009), about a police inspector in Victorian Edinburgh who gets help from Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, as he tries to solve the murder of a Confederate officer in 1860 Edinburgh; #3 in the Inspector McLevy mystery series.
Elizabeth Bailey, The Deathly Portent (2012), about a new bride who investigates the murder of a blacksmith after she and her husband are stranded near a small village when their coach's axle breaks; #2 in the Lady Fan mystery series.
T.F. Banks, The Emperor's Assassin (2003), a mystery about a Bow Street Runner investigating the murder of a count's French mistress amid impassioned controversies over the fate of the defeated Napoleon; #2 in the Memoirs of a Bow Street Runner series. Stephanie Barron, A Flaw in the Blood (2008), a stand-alone mystery exploring the possibility that Queen Victoria's husband, Prince Albert, may have committed suicide or been murdered. Michelle Birkby, The House at Baker Street (2016), a Sherlock Holmes pastiche in which Holmes's housekeeper and Dr. Watson's wife investigate a case declined by Holmes, in which the lives of many women are in danger. Conor Brady, A June of Ordinary Murders (2015), about a Dublin police detective investigating a series of murders in the hot summer of 1887 as the celebration of Queen Victoria's Jubilee threatens to provoke nationalist violence; #1 in the Joe Swallow mystery series. Conor Brady, The Eloquence of the Dead (2016), about a Dublin police detective investigating the murder of a pawnbroker; #2 in the Joe Swallow mystery series.
Gyles Brandreth, Oscar Wilde and a Game Called Murder (2008; titled Oscar Wilde and the Ring of Death in the U.K.), a mystery in which the famous London playwright and witty man-about-town plays a game of "Who would you kill if you had no chance of being caught?" and discovers to his horror that the suggested victims are beginning to turn up dead; #2 in the Oscar Wilde mystery series. Gyles Brandreth, Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man's Smile (2009), famous London playwright and witty man-about-town encounters a series of suspicious deaths after he finishes a lecture tour to the U.S. and takes an ocean liner to France; #3 in the Oscar Wilde mystery series. Gyles Brandreth, Oscar Wilde and the Vampire Murders (2011), a mystery in which the famous London playwright and witty man-about-town investigates the mysterious death of a duchess following a party at which one of the guests claims to be a vampire; #4 in the Oscar Wilde mystery series. Gyles Brandreth, Oscar Wilde and the Vatican Murders (2011), a mystery featuring Sir Arthur Conan Doyle happening upon Oscar Wilde in Germany and teaming up with him to solve a mystery involving gruesome objects among the fan mail addressed to Doyle's creation Sherlock Holmes; #5 in the Oscar Wilde mystery series. Gyles Brandreth, Oscar Wilde and the Murders at Reading Gaol (2013), a novel in which Oscar Wilde is called back after his release from Reading Gaol to solve the murders of the prison's warder and chaplain; #6 in the Oscar Wilde mystery series.
Diana Bretherick, The Devil’s Daughters (2016), about a Scottish scientist who returns to Turin in 1888 when a woman he once loved asks for his help in finding her cousin, who has vanished, one of several young women to disappear mysteriously; #2 in the City of Devils mystery series.
Emily Brightwell, The Inspector and Mrs. Jeffries Emily Brightwell, Mrs. Jeffries Dusts for Clues Emily Brightwell, The Ghost and Mrs. Jeffries Emily Brightwell, Mrs. Jeffries on the Ball Emily Brightwell, Mrs. Jeffries Takes Stock Emily Brightwell, Mrs. Jeffries on the Trail Emily Brightwell, Mrs. Jeffries Plays the Cook Emily Brightwell, Mrs. Jeffries and the Missing Alibi Emily Brightwell, Mrs. Jeffries Stands Corrected Emily Brightwell, Mrs. Jeffries Takes the Stage Emily Brightwell, Mrs. Jeffries Questions the Answer Emily Brightwell, Mrs. Jeffries Reveals Her Art Emily Brightwell, Mrs. Jeffries Takes the Cake Emily Brightwell, Mrs. Jeffries Rocks the Boat Emily Brightwell, Mrs. Jeffries Weeds the Plot Emily Brightwell, Mrs. Jeffries Pinches the Post Emily Brightwell, Mrs. Jeffries Pleads Her Case (2003), about a Victorian police inspector whose housekeeper is the genius behind his crime-solving success, when a man's death is ruled a suicide after a less-than-rigorous investigation; #17 in the Mrs. Jeffries series. Emily Brightwell, Mrs. Jeffries Sweeps the Chimney (2004), about a Victorian police inspector whose housekeeper is the genius behind his crime-solving success, when a corpse dressed as a vicar perplexes the police; #18 in the Mrs. Jeffries series. Emily Brightwell, Mrs. Jeffries Stalks the Hunter (2004), about a Victorian police inspector whose housekeeper is the genius behind his crime-solving success, when a man is murdered and a young lady is accused of the crime; #19 in the Mrs. Jeffries series. Emily Brightwell, Mrs. Jeffries and the Silent Knight (2005), about a Victorian police inspector whose housekeeper is the genius behind his crime-solving success, when a man's head is bashed in during a family Christmas holiday distinctly lacking in cheer; #20 in the Mrs. Jeffries series. Emily Brightwell, Mrs. Jeffries Appeals the Verdict (2006), about a Victorian police inspector whose housekeeper is the genius behind his crime-solving success, when an innocent man is convicted of murder; #21 in the Mrs. Jeffries series. Emily Brightwell, Mrs. Jeffries and the Best Laid Plans (2007), about a Victorian police inspector whose housekeeper is the genius behind his crime-solving success, when a reclusive miser is found dead; #22 in the Mrs. Jeffries series. Emily Brightwell, Mrs. Jeffries and the Feast of St. Stephen (2007), about a Victorian police inspector whose housekeeper is the genius behind his crime-solving success, when the host of a Christmas dinner dies during the meal; #23 in the Mrs. Jeffries series. Emily Brightwell, Mrs. Jeffries Holds the Trump (2008), about a Victorian police inspector whose housekeeper is the genius behind his crime-solving success, when a much-loved businessman is found drowned; #24 in the Mrs. Jeffries series. Emily Brightwell, Mrs. Jeffries in the Nick of Time (2009), about a Victorian police inspector whose housekeeper is the genius behind his crime-solving success, when a train enthusiast is murdered; #25 in the Mrs. Jeffries series. Emily Brightwell, Mrs. Jeffries and the Yuletide Weddings (2009), about a Victorian police inspector whose housekeeper is the genius behind his crime-solving success, when a murder occurs amid preparations for a long-awaited wedding; #26 in the Mrs. Jeffries series. Emily Brightwell, Mrs. Jeffries Speaks Her Mind (2010), about a housekeeper who assists her employer, a police inspector, in investigating the case of a friendless woman whose insistence that someone is trying to kill her is ignored until too late; #27 in the Mrs. Jeffries series. Emily Brightwell, Mrs. Jeffries Forges Ahead (2011), about a housekeeper who assists her employer, a police inspector, in investigating the case of a beautiful woman poisoned at her own dinner party; #28 in the Mrs. Jeffries series. Emily Brightwell, Mrs. Jeffries and the Mistletoe Mix-Up (2011), about a housekeeper who assists her employer, a police inspector, in solving the case of an art collector murdered during the Christmas season; #29 in the Mrs. Jeffries series.
Raymond Buckland, Dead for a Spell (2014), a mystery in which future author Bram Stoker, business manager of the Lyceum Theatre, investigates the disappearance of an actress; #2 in the Bram Stoker mystery series.
Kenneth Cameron, The Bohemian Girl (2009), about an American novelist and former lawman living in London whose search for a woman in trouble takes him to the Bohemian quarter where artists and their models live; #2 in the Denton series. Kenneth Cameron, The Second Woman (2010), about an American novelist and former lawman living in London who is drawn into the investigation of a Polish immigrant murdered in the house adjoining his own; #3 in the Denton mystery series. Kenneth Cameron, Winter at Death's Hotel (2012), a mystery featuring Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's wife Louisa as sleuth when a woman is murdered in New York during Doyle's American tour in 1896.
Carol K. Carr, India Black and the Widow of Windsor (2011), about a woman who manages a London brothel and takes on a spying mission in Scotland at Christmastime when Prime Minister Disraeli suspects a plot to assassinate Queen Victoria; #2 in the Madam of Espionage series. Carol K. Carr, India Black and the Rajah's Ruby Carol K. Carr, India Black and the Shadows of Anarchy (2013), about a woman who manages a London brothel and is asked by the prime minister to spy on an anarchist group which has been assassinating aristocrats; #4 in the Madam of Espionage series. Carol K. Carr, India Black and the Gentleman Thief (2014), about the madam of a high-class London brothel who spies for the the Crown and investigates the murder of a military officer; #5 in the Madam of Espionage series.
John Dickson Carr, Fire, Burn! John Dickson Carr, The Scandal at High Chimneys (1959), about a ghostly apparition and a murder in a London mansion in 1865. John Dickson Carr, The Demoniacs (1962), about a member of the Bow Street Runners, London's first police force, whose rescue of a naive young woman from a school for prostitutes leads to his investigation of the mysterious murder of an old woman with a scandalous past. John Dickson Carr, Papa La-Bas (1968), about a senator who investigates a murder in 1858 New Orleans. John Dickson Carr, Deadly Hall (1971), about a novelist who returns to his boyhood home, New Orleans, in 1927 to investigate a murder connected with a friend's inheritance. John Dickson Carr, The Hungry Goblin
M.J. Carter, The Infidel Stain Joanna Challis, Eye of the Serpent, romantic suspense about a nineteenth-century Englishwoman in Austria. Karen Charlton, Catching the Eagle (2011), about an innocent Northumberland farm laborer accused of stealing a vast sum from a manor house in 1809 and his younger brother, whose efforts to clear his name are complicated when he falls in love with his brother's wife; #1 in the planned Regency Reivers series. Pamela Christie, Death and the Courtesan (2013), about a courtesan in Regency England who must find the real killer after she is framed for murder. Paula Marantz Cohen, What Alice Knew (2010), a standalone mystery featuring psychologist William James, novelist Henry James and their invalid sister Alice James collaborating with the London police to solve the Jack the Ripper killings. Review or Author Interview Bernard Cornwell, Gallows Thief (2001), a standalone mystery novel about a hero of Waterloo who returns to London in 1820 to find himself destitute in a country where poverty and injustice are rife, and takes a job as a private investigator both for the money and for the chance to free an innocent man convicted of murder. Michael Cox, The Meaning of Night: A Confession (2006), a dark thriller about an educated man who is also a brutal, amoral killer seeking to reclaim his usurped inheritance. Michael Cox, The Glass of Time (2008), a dark thriller about an orphaned young woman who takes a job as lady's maid in 1876 in order to spy on her employer.
G.W. Dahlquist, The Dark Volume (2008; also titled The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters, Volume Two), a historical fantasy thriller about a woman trying to defeat a plot for world domination; #2 in the Glass Books of the Dream Eaters trilogy. G.W. Dahlquist, The Chemickal Marriage
David Stuart Davies, The Tangled Skein David Stuart Davies, The Scroll of the Dead David Stuart Davies, The Shadow of the Rat David Stuart Davies, The Veiled Detective (2004), a prequel to the Sherlock Holmes stories imagining how Holmes, Watson, and their nemesis Professor Moriarty might have met; #5 in the Sherlock Holmes Adventures series.
Anna Dean, A Gentleman of Fortune: Or, The Suspicions of Miss Dido Kent (2009), a humorous mystery about an inquisitive spinster who spices up a visit to her cousin in 1806 by pursuing her suspicion that a neighbor's sudden death may have been murder; #2 in the Dido Kent mystery series. Anna Dean, A Woman of Consequence, (2012), a humorous mystery about an inquisitive spinster who refuses to believe that a ghost known as the Grey Nun is haunting a ruined abbey; #3 in the Dido Kent mystery series.
David Dickinson, Death and the Jubilee (2002), an Irish investigator discovers the royal family is in danger during the Jubilee celebration as he tracks down who killed the corpse found in the Thames; #2 in the Lord Powerscourt series. David Dickinson, Death of an Old Master (2004), an Irish investigator tracks down a master forger; #3 in the Lord Powerscourt series. David Dickinson, Death of a Chancellor (2004), an Irish investigator tries to discreetly find out who killed the Chancellor of Compton Cathedral during the preparations for its millennium celebration in 1901; #4 in the Lord Powerscourt series. David Dickinson, Death Called to the Bar (2006), an Irish investigator tries to find out who is killing barristers and why; #5 in the Lord Powerscourt series. David Dickinson, Death on the Nevskii Prospect (2006), a retired Irish investigator travels to Russia on the eve of the Revolution to find out who cut the throat of a British diplomat; #6 in the Lord Powerscourt series. David Dickinson, Death on the Holy Mountain (2007), an Irish investigator is looking into a series of art thefts from wealthy Protestant homes in Ireland when people begin disappearing too; #7 in the Lord Powerscourt series. David Dickinson, Death of a Pilgrim (2009), an Irish investigator goes to France in 1905 to find out who is killing pilgrims on their way to the shrine at Santiago de Compostela, Spain; #8 in the Lord Powerscourt series. David Dickinson, Death of a Wine Merchant (2010), about an Irish investigator the case of a murder apparently committed by the uncle of a bridegroom immediately after a wedding uniting two wealthy families; #9 in the Lord Francis Powerscourt series. David Dickinson, Death in a Scarlet Coat (2011), about an Irish investigator stranded in a small town in 1909, where he discovers a recent death may have been a case of murder; #10 in the Lord Francis Powerscourt series.
Vaughn Entwistle, The Dead Assassin (2015), a mystery which imagines author Arthur Conan Doyle teaming up with Oscar Wilde to investigate the murder of a government official and a pickpocket whose body was found nearby; #2 in the Paranormal Casebooks of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle mystery series. Laurie Alice Eakes, A Necessary Deception (2011), historical romance about a young widow in 1812 London whose assistance to a French prisoner could lead her into danger; #1 in the planned Daughters of Bainbridge House series. Lyndsay Faye, Dust and Shadow (2009), a thriller which pits Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional creation Sherlock Holmes against the historical killer Jack the Ripper. Review at the LA Times
Charles Finch, The September Society (2009), about a Victorian gentleman who agrees to help a widow find her son, who has disappeared from his room at Oxford; #2 in the Charles Lenox mystery series. Charles Finch, The Fleet Street Murders (2010), about a recently engaged Victorian gentleman who becomes involved in investigating the murders of two journalists and discovers the case may interfere with his wedding; #3 in the Charles Lenox mystery series. Charles Finch, A Stranger in Mayfair (2010), about a Victorian gentleman who helps investigate the murder of a footman who led a double life; #4 in the Charles Lenox mystery series. Charles Finch, An East End Murder Charles Finch, A Death in the Small Hours Charles Finch, An Old Betrayal (2013), about a Victorian gentleman who investigates the murder of a country squire which could be part of a plot to strike at the monarchy; #7 in the Charles Lenox series. Charles Finch, The Laws of Murder (2014), about a Victorian gentleman who appears to be the weakest partner in his new detective agency until he is hired to investigate the shooting death of a friend who worked at Scotland Yard; #8 in the Charles Lenox series. Charles Finch, Home by Nightfall (2015), about a gentleman detective just beginning to investigate the disappearance of a famous pianist when he must return to his boyhood village to help his brother, where a rash of small crimes threatens to turn deadly; #9 in the Charles Lenox series.
Sara Fraser, The Resurrection Men (2008), about a parish constable in 1826 who must deal with a gang of body-snatchers that also robs and murders; #2 in the Thomas Potts Victorian mystery series. Sara Fraser, The Drowned Ones (2009), about a parish constable in 1827 who thinks the local barge-workers may know something they aren't telling him about the serving girl found drowned in a canal; #3 in the Thomas Potts Victorian mystery series. Sara Fraser, Suffer the Children (2011), about a parish constable who thinks the cases of a mad girl and a dead boy may both be connected to the abduction of a wagon full of children from the poorhouse; #4 in the Thomas Potts Victorian mystery series. Sara Fraser, Till Death Do Us Part (2013), about a parish constable who, while dealing with a series of dog thefts, suspects two apparently charming men may have deadly plans for a spinster who answered their newpaper ad; #4 in the Thomas Potts Victorian mystery series.
Leonard Goldberg, The Daughter of Sherlock Holmes (2018), about a daughter of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's character Sherlock Holmes, recruited by Dr. and Mrs. Watson to help them catch a murderer after she and her young son see a man fall to his death; #1 in the Daughter of Sherlock Holmes mystery series. Leonard Goldberg, A Study in Treason (2018), about a daughter of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's character Sherlock Holmes, and her efforts to recover a stolen treaty, assisted by Dr. and Mrs. Watson; #2 in the Daughter of Sherlock Holmes mystery series.
Philip Gooden, The Durham Disappearance Rebecca Gowers, The Twisted Heart (2009), about a modern literature student immersed in research for her thesis which attempts to establish a link between a murder in a Dickens novel and the unsolved murder of a prostitute in 1838.
Ann Granger, A Mortal Curiosity (2008), about a woman working as a lady's companion who takes a job comforting a mother whose baby has died; #2 in the Lizzie Martin mystery series. Ann Granger, A Better Quality of Murder (2010), about a woman who is married to a Scotland Yard inspector and assists his investigation into the murder of an art dealer's beautiful Italian wife; #3 in the Lizzie Martin mystery series. Ann Granger, A Particular Eye for Villainy (2012), about a woman who is married to a Scotland Yard inspector and assists his investigation into the death of a man bludgeoned in his living room; #4 in the Lizzie Martin mystery series.
Alex Grecian, The Black Country (2013), about the newest detective in Scotland Yard's Murder Squad, and his investigation of the disappearance of a prominent family from a village in the English Midlands which is slowly sinking into the coal mines beneath it; #2 in the Murder Squad series. Alex Grecian, The Devil’s Workshop (2014), a thriller about a member of the Scotland Yard murder squad who must hunt down four killers in 1890; #3 in the Murder Squad series.
Kate Griffin, Kitty Peck and the Child of Ill-Fortune
Michael Hardwick, Sherlock Holmes: My Life and Crimes Michael Hardwick, The Private Life of Dr. Watson Michael Hardwick, The Revenge of the Hound Michael Hardwick, Nightbone
C.S. Harris, When Gods Die (2006), about a young English nobleman drawn into a murder investigation when a necklace that once belonged to his mother is found around the dead woman's neck; #2 in the Sebastian St. Cyr mystery series. C.S. Harris, Why Mermaids Sing (2007), about a young English nobleman who becomes obsessed with solving a series of strange murders of young men of prominent families in 1811 Georgian England; #3 in the Sebastian St. Cyr mystery series. C.S. Harris, Where Serpents Sleep (2008), about a young English nobleman who teams up with the daughter of a cousin of the Prince Regent in 1812 London to bring to justice the murderer of eight prostitutes; #4 in the Sebastian St. Cyr mystery series. C.S. Harris, What Remains of Heaven (2009), about a young English nobleman who must investigate the deaths of two men whose bodies are discovered in an ancient crypt, with a suspect list that includes the son of Benjamin Franklin; #5 in the Sebastian St. Cyr mystery series. C. S. Harris, Where Shadows Dance (2011), about a young English nobleman who who investigates the murder of a man who worked in the Foreign Office; #6 in the Sebastian St. Cyr mystery series. Review C.S. Harris, When Maidens Mourn, (2012), about a young English nobleman and his independent new bride who investigate the murder of an antiquarian who had been studying a moat reputed to be connected with King Arthur; #7 in the Sebastian St. Cyr mystery series. C.S. Harris, What Darkness Brings (2013), about an English nobleman who, while investigating the murder of a diplomat, finds that his bride-to-be seems to know more that she ought to about the man's death; #8 in the Sebastian St. Cyr mystery series. C.S. Harris, Why Kings Confess (2014), about an English nobleman who investigates the murder and mutilation in 1813 of a physician which may be connected with the disappearance eighteen years previously of the former dauphin during the French Revolution; #9 in the Sebastian St. Cyr mystery series. C. S. Harris, Who Buries the Dead (2015), about an English nobleman and his wife who investigate the decapitation murder of a slave owner from the West Indies; #10 in the Sebastian St. Cyr mystery series. C.S. Harris, When Falcons Fall (2016), about an English nobleman and his wife who investigate the apparent suicide of a young widow in a Shropshire village; #11 in the Sebastian St. Cyr mystery series.
Gregory Harris, The Bellingham Bloodbath (2014), about a homosexual aristocrat in Victorian England who investigates the murder of an officer of the Queen's Life Guard and, in a separate case, the disappearance of a prizewinning dog; #2 in the Colin Pendragon mystery series. Gregory Harris, The Connicle Curse (2015), about a aristocrat and his partner who investigate the murder of a wealthy financier whose West African scullery maid is the chief suspect; #3 in the Colin Pendragon mystery series. Gregory Harris, The Dalwich Desecration (2016), about a aristocrat and his partner who investigate a murder in an abbey; #4 in the Colin Pendragon mystery series.
Elizabeth Haynes, The Murder of Harriet Monckton (2018), about a respectable young woman found murdered in a privy behind a dissenting chapel in Bromley, Kent, in 1843; based on a true story.
Anna Lee Huber, Mortal Arts (2013), about an anatomist's widow who travels to Edinburgh in 1830 where she investigates a murder her former art tutor has been accused of; #2 in the Lady Darby mystery series. Anna Lee Huber, A Grave Matter (2014), about an anatomist's widow who would like to set aside her past but is asked to use her knowledge of anatomy to help solve the murder of the caretaker on a nearby estate; #3 in the Lady Darby mystery series. Anna Lee Huber, A Study in Death (2015), about a woman who believes the baroness whose portrait she has been commissioned to paint is being badly treated by her husband, when the baroness suddenly dies; #4 in the Lady Kiera Darby mystery series. Anna Lee Huber, A Pressing Engagement (2016), a mystery novella about a woman who feels compelled to investigate the mysterious reappearance of a gold necklace while she is planning her wedding; #4.5 in the Lady Kiera Darby mystery series. Anna Lee Huber, As Death Draws Near (2016), about a woman who must break off her honeymoon to help her husband investigate a murder in an Irish nunnery as political tensions rise between the Irish and the English in 1831; #5 in the Lady Kiera Darby mystery series.
D.E. Ireland, Move Your Blooming Corpse (2015), a mystery in which Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins investigate a murder at a horse race; #2 in the Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins mystery series.
Jane Jakeman, The Egyptian Coffin (1997), about a reclusive aristocrat who travels to Egypt to protect an heiress after he learns of a young girl's death; #2 in the Lord Ambrose Malfine mystery series. Jane Jakeman, Fool's Gold (1998), about a reclusive aristocrat who investigates the murder of a physician by poisoning; #3 in the Lord Ambrose Malfine mystery series.
M.R.C. Kasasian, The Curse of the House of Foskett (2015), about a London private detective demoralized from lack of work when an eccentric man drops dead in his study; #2 in the Gower Street Detective series. M.R.C. Kasasian, Death Descends on Saturn Villa (2015), about a London private detective whose ward is framed for murder while he is away in Yorkshire; #3 in the Gower Street Detective series. M.R.C. Kasasian, The Secrets of Gaslight Lane (2017), about a London private detective who investigates the locked-room mystery of a man found in his bed with his throat cut; #4 in the Gower Street Detectives mystery series.
Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger, editors, A Study in Sherlock (2011), a collection of short stories, some historical, some set in the present day, inspired in various ways by Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories. Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger, editors, In the Company of Sherlock Holmes (2014), a collection of short stories inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories; about half of the stories in the collection have historical settings. Review
Alanna Knight, Blood Line (1989), about an Edinburgh police inspector who investigates a murder case, unsolved for thirty years, which may relate to the remains of an infant found entombed in a wall in Mary Queen of Scots' apartments; #2 in the Inspector Faro mystery series. Alanna Knight, Deadly Beloved (1989), about an Edinburgh police inspector who investigates the disappearance of a police surgeon's wife; #3 in the Inspector Faro mystery series. Alanna Knight, Killing Cousins (1990), about an Edinburgh police inspector who investigates the murder by poisoning of a laird's wife; #4 in the Inspector Faro mystery series. Alanna Knight, A Quiet Death (1991), about an Edinburgh police inspector who investigates a series of crimes following the suicide of a man who leaped from the unfinished Tay railroad bridge; #5 in the Inspector Faro mystery series. Alanna Knight, To Kill a Queen (1992), about an Edinburgh police inspector asked to investigate the killing of two of Queen Victoria's spaniels; #6 in the Inspector Faro mystery series. Alanna Knight, The Evil That Men Do (1993), about an Edinburgh police inspector who investigates the murder of tbe father of his stepson's fiancée; #7 in the Inspector Faro mystery series. Alanna Knight, The Missing Duchess (1994), about an Edinburgh police inspector who investigates the disappearance and possible murder of Queen Victoria's favorite goddaughter; #8 in the Inspector Faro mystery series. Alanna Knight, The Bull Slayers (1995), about an Edinburgh police inspector on an incognito mission to clear the name of the Prince of Wales from an impending scandal; #9 in the Inspector Faro mystery series. Alanna Knight, Murder by Appointment (1996), about an Edinburgh police inspector who investigates the murders of an unknown man and woman who resemble each other; #10 in the Inspector Faro mystery series. Alanna Knight, The Coffin Lane Murders (1998), about an Edinburgh police inspector who investigates the murder of a woman knifed in snowy Coffin Lane; #11 in the Inspector Faro mystery series. Alanna Knight, The Final Enemy (2002), about an Edinburgh police inspector who must interrupt his vacation in Germany to protect a boy who is heir to a throne; #12 in the Inspector Faro mystery series; included in #14, Faro and the Royals. Alanna Knight, Death at Carasheen (2004; also titled Unholy Trinity), about an Edinburgh police inspector whose vacation in Ireland is interrupted by a murder which the village simpleton claims to have witnessed; #13 in the Inspector Faro mystery series. Alanna Knight, Faro and the Royals (2005), a trilogy containing three short Inspector Faro mysteries: The Bull Slayers, The Missing Duchess and The Final Enemy; #14 in the Inspector Faro mystery series. Alanna Knight, Murder in Paradise (2008), about an Edinburgh police inspector whose investigation of jewel theft leads him to Kent, where he discovers an old friend may be about to marry a murderess; #15 in the Inspector Faro mystery series. Alanna Knight, The Seal King Murders (2011), about an Edinburgh police inspector investigation the suspicious death of a champion swimmer; #16 in the Inspector Faro mystery series. Alanna Knight, Murders Most Foul (2013), about an Edinburgh police inspector on the trail of a serial killer who leaves a playing card with the bodies of his victims; #17 in the Inspector Faro mystery series. Alanna Knight, Akin to Murder (2016), about an Edinburgh police inspector who must track down an escaped convicted murderer; #18 in the Inspector Faro mystery series.
Alanna Knight, Dangerous Pursuits (2002), about an Edinburgh woman who, while walking above the city on Arthur's Seat, discovers a corpse which later disappears; #2 in the Rose McQuinn mystery series. Alanna Knight, An Orkney Murder (2003), about an Edinburgh woman on holiday in Bute in 1906, where her investigation of a twenty-year-old murder case unleashes fresh danger; #3 in the Rose McQuinn mystery series. Alanna Knight, Ghost Walk (2004), about an Edinburgh woman who, as her wedding day approaches, hears from a nun who claims to have received a letter from her deceased husband; #4 in the Rose McQuinn mystery series. Alanna Knight, Destroying Angel (2007), about an Edinburgh woman asked to track down the identity of a blackmailer and thief; #5 in the Rose McQuinn mystery series. Alanna Knight, Quest for a Killer (2010), about an Edinburgh woman investigating a series of crimes which may be linked to a traveling circus; #6 in the Rose McQuinn mystery series. Alanna Knight, Deadly Legacy (2012), about an Edinburgh woman who is attacked on a train while on her way to deliver a family legacy to her neighbor's relative; #7 in the Rose McQuinn mystery series. Alanna Knight, The Balmoral Incident (2014), about an Edinburgh woman who is visiting a friend of hers in a cottage on the Balmoral Estate, when a murder occurs in the castle; #8 in the Rose McQuinn mystery series. Alanna Knight, Murder Lies Waiting (2018), about an Edinburgh woman on holiday in Bute in 1906, where her investigation of a twenty-year-old murder case unleashes fresh danger; #9 in the Rose McQuinn mystery series.
Michael Kurland, Victorian Villainy (2011), a collection of mystery stories based on Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, in which Holmes's rival, Professor Moriarty, solves four mysteries; plus four mystery stories set in ancient Rome during Emperor Vespasian's rule; #3 in the Professor Moriarty mystery series. Michael Kurland, The Great Game (2014), a mystery based on Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, in which Holmes and his rival Professor Moriarty travel separately to Vienna, as anarchists plot to topple the governments of Europe; #3 and the first full-length novel in the Professor Moriarty mystery series. Michael Kurland, The Empress of India Michael Kurland, Who Thinks Evil (2014), a mystery based on Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, in which the evil Professor Moriarty is asked, in the absence of Holmes, to find out who is attempting to frame Queen Victoria's grandson for murder; #5 in the Professor Moriarty mystery series.
Catherine Lloyd, Death Comes to London (2014), about a rector's daughter who goes to London with her sister for the social season and, after a countess is murdered, must find the real killer to protect her sister from a murder charge; #2 in the Kurland St. Mary mystery series. Catherine Lloyd, Death Comes to Kurland Hall (2015), about a rector's daughter who returns home to help with a friend's wedding, and investigates the dead of a widow who seemed to have marital designs on her father; #3 in the Kurland St. Mary mystery series. Catherine Lloyd, Death Comes to the Fair (2016), about a rector's daughter whose wedding is delayed when the church verger is found crushed to death by a gargoyle; #4 in the Kurland St. Mary mystery series. Catherine Lloyd, Death Comes to the School (2017), about a rector's daughter who receives an anonymous letter accusing her of witchcraft, shortly before the village schoolteacher is found murdered in her classroom; #5 in the Kurland St. Mary mystery series.
Edward Marston, The Excursion Train (2005), about a railway detective in Victorian England who investigates the murder of a passenger who once worked as a public executioner; #2 in the Railway Detective series. Edward Marston, The Railway Viaduct (2006), about a railway detective in Victorian England who investigates the murder of an unidentified passenger whose clothes suggest he is from the Continent; #3 in the Railway Detective series. Edward Marston, The Iron Horse (2007), about a railway detective in Victorian England who must find out why a decapitated head was left on a train and who was responsible; #4 in the Railway Detective series. Edward Marston, Murder on the Brighton Express (2008), about a railway detective in Victorian England who suspects that a devastating train derailment was not the result of driver error; #5 in the Railway Detective series. Edward Marston, The Silver Locomotive Mystery (2009), about a railway detective in Victorian England who must solve a gruesome murder and the theft of a silver coffeepot; #6 in the Railway Detective series. Edward Marston, Railway to the Grave (2010), about a railway detective in Victorian England who wonders whether an old army friend, killed by a speeding train, really intended suicide; #7 in the Railway Detective series. Edward Marston, Blood on the Line (2011), about a railway detective in Victorian England who must track down an escaped convict who murdered two policemen; #8 in the Railway Detective series. Edward Marston, Peril on the Royal Train (2013), about a team of railway detectives investigating a fatal crash on the Caledonian line shortly before the royal family is due to travel to Balmoral; #10 in the Railway Detective series. Edward Marston, A Ticket to Oblivion (2014), about a railway detective investigating the disappearance of two first class passengers related to a Member of Parliament; #11 in the Railway Detective series. Edward Marston, Timetable of Death (2015), about a railway detective investigating the death of a railway director whose body was found in a freshly dug grave; #12 in the Railway Detective series. Edward Marston, Signal for Vengeance (2016), about a railway detective under pressure to solve the murder of a railway officer as quickly as possible, while his wife is due to give birth any day; #13 in the Railway Detective series. Edward Marston, The Circus Train Conspiracy (2017), about a railway detective the death of an unidentified woman found alongside the tracks after the derailment of a train carrying a circus; #14 in the Railway Detective series. Edward Marston, A Christmas Railway Mystery (2017), about a railway detective investigating the murder of a worker in a locomotive manufacturer's planned community during an especially cold and unfestive holiday season; #15 in the Railway Detective series. Edward Marston, Points Of Danger (2018), about a railway detective trying to track down the train robber who murdered the man working to unify railway networks in East Anglia; #16 in the Railway Detective series.
Edward Marston, Steps to the Gallows (2016), about twin detectives investigating the murder of the editor of a newspaper that specializes in reporting scandals; #2 in the Bow Street Rivals mystery series.
D.E. Meredith, Devoured (2010), about a professor skilled in criminal investigation and his morgue assistant who help Scotland Yard investigate the murder of a woman fossil collector; #1 in the Hatton and Roumande mystery series. D.E. Meredith, The Devil’s Ribbon (2013), about a forensic scientist and his assistant in 1858 London who, during a cholera epidemic among the city's poor Irish, must investigate a series of murders in which the killer leaves a green ribbon with the victim, a Fenian warning; #2 in the Hatton and Roumande mystery series. Nicholas Meyer, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution Graham Moore, The Sherlockian (2010), about a present-day Sherlock Holmes scholar whose murder is linked to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's hunt for a serial killer in 1890s London.
David Morrell, Inspector of the Dead (2015), about an opium user who, with his daughter's assistance, investigates a series of murders that appear to target Queen Victoria; #2 in the Thomas De Quincey mystery series. David Morrell, Ruler of the Night (2016), about a recovering opium addict and his daughter who investigate a locked-room murder of a man stabbed to death in the train compartment next to their own; #3 in the Thomas De Quincey mystery series.
Vasudev Murthy, Sherlock Holmes, The Missing Years: Timbuktu (2016), a Sherlock Holmes adventure in northern Africa during the years between his supposed death at Reichenbach Falls and his reappearance in London. Review Sena Jeter Naslund, Sherlock in Love (1993), about Dr. Watson's investigations into a previously unreported adventure of the recently deceased Sherlock Holmes. John O’Connell, Baskerville (2013), about Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, and a newspaperman, formerly Doyle's friend, who may have collaborated with him in writing The Hound of the Baskervilles. Karen Odden, A Dangerous Duet (2018), about a young women who lives with her brother, a Scotland Yard inspector, who disguises herself as a man in order to pursue a career as a pianist and, in the course of her work, stumbles across a dangerous crime ring. Paraic O’Donnell, The House on Vesper Sands (2018), about a man in 1893 London who finds his former love near death in a church in Soho, only to disappear the following morning, and a society columnist searching for answers to a similar disappearance.
Robin Paige, Death at Gallow's Green, an American writer, an amateur scientist and Beatrix Potter collaborate to investigate the murder of a constable; #2 in the Sir Charles Sheridan mystery series. Robin Paige, Death at Daisy's Folly, an American writer and an amateur scientist team up to investigate two murders at an aristocratic woman's weekend party; #3 in the Sir Charles Sheridan mystery series. Robin Paige, Death at Devil's Bridge, after their wedding, an American writer and an amateur scientist host an automobile exhibition that turns deadly; #4 in the Sir Charles Sheridan mystery series. Robin Paige, Death at Rottingdean, on holiday, a pair of amateur sleuths collaborate with Rudyard Kipling to find out who murdered the coast guard whose body turned up on the beach; #5 in the Sir Charles Sheridan mystery series. Robin Paige, Death at Whitechapel, a pair of amateur sleuths come to the aid of Jennie Churchill when someone claims the father of her son, Winston, was Jack the Ripper; #6 in the Sir Charles Sheridan mystery series. Robin Paige, Death at Epsom Downs, a pair of amateur sleuths are asked to investigate murder and jewel theft at the races; #7 in the Sir Charles Sheridan mystery series. Robin Paige, Death at Dartmoor, a pair of amateur sleuths collaborate with Arthur Conan Doyle when a body is found on the moor; #8 in the Sir Charles Sheridan mystery series. Robin Paige, Death at Glamis Castle, a pair of amateur sleuths discover that a prince believed to have been dead for years is actually alive and suspected of a grisly murder; #9 in the Sir Charles Sheridan mystery series. Review Robin Paige, Death in Hyde Park, a pair of amateur sleuths are called to investigate after a bomb goes off at King Edward's coronation ceremony; #10 in the Sir Charles Sheridan mystery series. Robin Paige, Death at Blenheim Palace, a pair of amateur sleuths discover there may be a link between a recent kidnapping and the 700-year-old unsolved murder of the mistress of Henry II; #11 in the Sir Charles Sheridan mystery series. Robin Paige, Death on the Lizard, a pair of amateur sleuths investigate murder connected to the latest in modern technology, the wireless telegraph; #12 in the Sir Charles Sheridan mystery series.
Kate Parker, The Vanishing Thief (2013), about a woman who supplements her regular job as an antiquarian bookseller with work for a secret society of private investigators; #1 in the Victorian Bookshop mystery series. Kate Parker, The Counterfeit Lady (2014), about an antiquarian bookseller, secretly a private investigator, who poses as a titled lady in order to catch a dangerous spy; #2 in the Victorian Bookshop mystery series. Ambrose Parry, The Way Of All Flesh (2018), about a Edinburgh medical student and the housemaid of the physician to whom he is apprenticed, who rise above their dislike for each other to investigate a series of murders of young women. Caro Peacock, The Foreign Affair, about a young woman who poses as a governess in 1837 England in order to spy on a man believed to be involved in a treasonous plot; #1 in the Liberty Lane mystery series. Caro Peacock, A Dangerous Affair (2009), a young woman on her own in London after her father's death becomes involved in a murder investigation after a handsome young politician named Benjamin Disraeli asks her to find out more about a notorious prima ballerina; #2 in the Liberty Lane mystery series. Iain Pears, Stone's Fall (2009), about a wealthy industrialist whose widow hires a journalist to find the child, unknown to her, who is named in his will. Review
Andrew Pepper, The Revenge of Captain Paine (2007), about a former Bow Street Runner asked to unofficially investigate a decapitation in 1834 as the Industrial Revolution brings railways and oppressive conditions for workers to England; #2 in the Pyke Mystery series. Andrew Pepper, Kill-Devil and Water (2008), about a former Bow Street Runner down on his luck who is freed from debtor's prison so he can investigate the murder of a poor Jamaican immigrant while the rest of the force concentrates on the suspicious death of an important aristocrat; #3 in the Pyke Mystery series. Andrew Pepper, The Detective Branch (2010, also titled The Detective Bureau), about a member of London's new "Detective Bureau" who investigates the death of a policeman and finds it is linked to a tavern landlord's murder; #4 in the Pyke Mystery series.
Anne Perry, A Dangerous Mourning, a Victorian police officer with amnesia must investigate his own past as, with the help of a nurse who once worked with Florence Nightingale, he tries to find out who murdered an aristocrat's daughter; #2 in the William Monk mystery series. Anne Perry, Defend and Betray, when a general's wife confesses to his murder, a detective with amnesia must find out who really killed her husband; #3 in the William Monk mystery series. Anne Perry, A Sudden, Fearful Death, a private investigator with amnesia discovers frightening clues about his own past as he investigates the strangling death of a nurse; #4 in the William Monk mystery series. Anne Perry, The Sins of the Wolf, a private investigator with amnesia must find the real killer when a nurse who has assisted him in several previous investigations is charged with murder; #5 in the William Monk mystery series. Anne Perry, Cain His Brother, a private investigator with amnesia tries to find a missing man who may have been murdered by his twin brother; #6 in the William Monk mystery series. Anne Perry, Weighed in the Balance, a private investigator with amnesia is hired to find evidence for a countess's claim that the prince of a small German principality was murdered by his wife; #7 in the William Monk mystery series. Anne Perry, The Silent Cry, a private investigator with amnesia discovers that the murder of a solicitor is connected with a series of brutal attacks on local prostitutes; #8 in the William Monk mystery series. Anne Perry, The Whited Sepulchres Anne Perry, The Twisted Root, a private investigator is hired to find a man's missing fiancé; #10 in the William Monk mystery series. Anne Perry, Slaves of Obsession, a private investigator and his wife travel to America on the trail of a murderer and a missing cache of weapons during the Civil War; #11 in the William Monk mystery series. Anne Perry, A Funeral in Blue, a private investigator with amnesia tries to find out who murdered two women in an artist's studio, one of them the wife of a surgeon who is his wife's colleague; #12 in the William Monk mystery series. Anne Perry, Death of a Stranger, a private investigator with amnesia is hired to look into the background of a woman's fiancé, a railway executive, and rediscovers traumatic lost memories of his own; #13 in the William Monk mystery series. Anne Perry, The Shifting Tide, a private investigator tries to find out who murdered a ship's watchman and stole a cargo of African ivory; #14 in the William Monk mystery series. Anne Perry, Dark Assassin, a Thames River Police superintendent tries to find out whether a couple's death by drowning was a tragic accident, suicide or murder; #15 in the William Monk mystery series. Anne Perry, Execution Dock (2009), about a detective with the Thames River Police who, after the man he arrested is freed from prison, discovers murkier depths in a case he thought he had solved; #16 in the William Monk mystery series. Anne Perry, Acceptable Loss (2011), about a detective with the Thames River Police who wonders why a petty thief was strangled with a silk cravat before being thrown into the Thames; #17 in the William Monk mystery series. Anne Perry, A Sunless Sea (2012), about a Thames River policeman and his wife who investigate the murder of a quiet woman, apparently a prostitute, whose mutilated body was found on a pier; #18 in the William Monk mystery series. Anne Perry, Blind Justice (2013), about a Thames River policeman and his wife who suspect that the minister of a London church is swindling its members; #19 in the William Monk mystery series. Anne Perry, Blood on the Water (2014), about the head of London's River Police and his wife, who suspect the Egyptian sentenced to hang for blowing up a pleasure boat may be innocent; #20 in the William Monk mystery series. Anne Perry, Corridors of the Night (2015), about the head of London's River Police and his wife, who try to protect two children from a doctor obsessed with finding a cure for a fatal disease; #21 in the William Monk mystery series. Anne Perry, Revenge in a Cold River (2016), about a Commander of the River Police who, while investigating the murder of a master forger, discovers that an enemy of his is out for revenge because of past acts he no longer remembers; #22 in the William Monk mystery series. Anne Perry, An Echo of Murder (2017), about a Commander of the River Police who investigates the apparently ritualistic murder of a Hungarian immigrant, while his wife helps an old friend from her service during the Crimean War who has been accused of the murder; #23 in the William Monk mystery series. Anne Perry, Dark Tide Rising (2018), about a Commander of the River Police who, while trying to solve a case of kidnapping, realizes one of his own men is betraying him; #24 in the William Monk mystery series.
Anne Perry, Callander Square (1980), about a Victorian police inspector with a lower-class background who with the help of his upper-class wife investigates the murder of two babies; #2 in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt mystery series. Anne Perry, Paragon Walk (1981), about a Victorian police inspector with a lower-class background who with the help of his upper-class wife investigates the murder of a young woman; #3 in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt mystery series. Anne Perry, Resurrection Row (1981), about a Victorian police inspector with a lower-class background who with the help of his upper-class wife investigates the strange case of a dead and buried gentleman whose corpse turns up in a hansom cab; #4 in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt mystery series. Anne Perry, Rutland Place (1983), about a Victorian police inspector and his wife who look into the disappearance of her mother's locket, a compromising memento, and find they have embarked on a search leading to far more terrible secrets; #5 in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt mystery series. Anne Perry, Bluegate Fields (1984), about a Victorian police inspector and his wife who investigate the death of an upper-class boy whose body was found in the slums; #6 in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt mystery series. Anne Perry, Death in the Devil's Acre (1985), about a Victorian police inspector and his wife who investigate the brutal murder of a doctor; #7 in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt mystery series. Anne Perry, Cardington Crescent (1987), about a Victorian police inspector and his wife who attempt to clear her sister of a murder charge after the sister's philandering husband is murdered; #8 in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt mystery series. Anne Perry, Silence in Hanover Close (1988), about a Victorian police inspector and his wife who investigate an unsolved case from three years earlier, which the authorities want handled in a quiet, diplomatic way; #9 in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt mystery series. Anne Perry, Bethlehem Road (1990), about a Victorian police inspector and his wife who investigate a series of murders of Members of Parliament who voted against women's suffrage; #10 in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt mystery series. Anne Perry, Highgate Rise (1991), about a Victorian police inspector and his wife who investigate a case of arson; #11 in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt mystery series. Anne Perry, Belgrave Square (1992), about a Victorian police inspector and his wife who investigate the murder of a seedy money-lender with a list of distinguished aristocrats in his office; #12 in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt mystery series. Anne Perry, Farriers' Lane (1993), about a Victorian police inspector and his wife who investigate the murder of a judge about to reopen an old case; #13 in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt mystery series. Anne Perry, The Hyde Park Headsman (1994), about a Victorian police inspector and his wife who investigate a series of beheadings, with a strange lack of support from his superiors; #14 in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt mystery series. Anne Perry, Traitors Gate (1995), about a Victorian police inspector and his wife who investigate a death that may be linked to a spy operating in the government's Colonial Office; #15 in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt mystery series. Anne Perry, Pentecost Alley (1996), about a Victorian police inspector and his wife who investigate the murder of a prostitute under whose body was found a badge from the Hellfire Club; #16 in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt mystery series. Anne Perry, Ashworth Hall (1997), about a Victorian police inspector and his wife who investigate the murder of a government official in charge of negotiations over the prospect of Irish home rule; #17 in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt mystery series. Anne Perry, Brunswick Gardens (1998), about a Victorian police inspector and his wife who investigate the death of an outspoken women who championed feminism and Darwin's theory of evolution; #18 in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt mystery series. Anne Perry, Bedford Square (1999), about a Victorian police inspector and his wife who investigate why a dead body was found on the doorstep of a general's home; #19 in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt mystery series. Anne Perry, Half Moon Street (2000), about a Victorian police inspector who tries to uncover the identity of a dead man discovered floating down the Thames in a punt; #20 in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt mystery series. Anne Perry, The Whitechapel Conspiracy (2001), about a Victorian police inspector transferred to a Special Branch investigation while Jack the Ripper remains at large; #21 in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt mystery series. Anne Perry, Southampton Row (2002), about a Victorian police inspector who investigates the murder of a clairvoyant whose seances are attended by London's fashionable aristocrats; #22 in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt mystery series. Anne Perry, Seven Dials (2003), about a Victorian police inspector who investigates the murder of a junior diplomat found in the garden of a mansion where a beautiful Egyptian woman lives; #23 in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt mystery series. Anne Perry, Long Spoon Lane (2005), about a Victorian police inspector who discovers police corruption when he investigates an anarchist bombing and, with his wife's assistance, sets out to thwart a dangerous conspiracy; #24 in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt mystery series. Anne Perry, Buckingham Palace Gardens (2008), about a Victorian police inspector who must investigate the murder of a prostitute whose body was discovered during a party given by the Prince of Wales; #25 in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt mystery series. Anne Perry, Treason at Lisson Grove (2011), about a Special Branch police officer investigating the death of a government informant who died before he could reveal details about an international plot with the potential to destroy the British Empire; #26 in the Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mystery series. Anne Perry, Dorchester Terrace (2011), about the head of Britain's Special Branch, who worries that he may have been promoted beyond his abilities as rumors suggest a Habsburg duke will be assassinated during his imminent visit to England; #27 in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series. Anne Perry, Midnight at Marble Arch (2013), about a Special Branch investigator who quietly assists an investigation of the baffling rape and apparent suicide of a wealthy merchant's wife when offensive rumors begin to circulate; #28 in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt mystery series. Anne Perry, Death on Blackheath (2014), about a newly promoted head of Special Branch, who with his wife's help, investigates the disappearance of a maid who worked for a naval weapons expert; #29 in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt mystery series. Anne Perry, The Angel Court Affair (2015), about a Special Branch detective given the job of protecting a young Spanish woman with controversial views while she is on a speaking tour of England in April 1898; #30 in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt mystery series.
Anne Perry, A Christmas Visitor (2004), about an aristocrat (the father of barrister Oliver Rathbone of the William Monk series) who arrives to spend Christmas at a manor house to find its master is dead and family members are being slandered; #2 in the Christmas series. Anne Perry, A Christmas Guest (2005), about an elderly London aristocrat (Grandmama of the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series) who regrets her chilly behavior toward a fellow Christmas guest after the woman dies suddenly, and decides to investigate; #3 in the Christmas series. Anne Perry, A Christmas Secret (2006), about a substitute vicar and his wife who arrive at a village parish before Christmas to find that the regular vicar is not, as they were led to believe, on holiday; #4 in the Christmas series. Anne Perry, A Christmas Beginning (2007), about a Scotland Yard inspector who is on holiday on the Welsh Isle of Anglesey when he finds the dead body of the vicar's sister in a churchyard; #5 in the Christmas series. Anne Perry, A Christmas Grace (2008), about a woman who goes to visit her aunt in the western Irish county of Connemara and decides to solve an old murder case so the villagers will no longer have to worry about a killer in their midst; #6 in the Christmas series. Anne Perry, A Christmas Promise (2009), about a thirteen-year-old girl who decides to help an eight-year-old girl find the donkey cart that belonged to her murdered uncle, a rag-and-bones man; #7 in the Christmas series. Review Anne Perry, A Christmas Odyssey (2010), about a aristocrat (the father of barrister Oliver Rathbone of the William Monk series) asked to help find an old friend's missing son, who has fallen prey to opium abuse; #8 in the Christmas series.
Elizabeth Peters, The Curse of the Pharaohs (1981), about a husband-and-wife archaeology team who take over another archaeologist's excavation after his sudden death, and then begin to suspect murder; #2 in the Amelia Peabody mystery series. Elizabeth Peters, The Mummy Case (1985), about a woman archaeologist who tries to find out who murdered a dealer in Egyptian antiquities; #3 in the Amelia Peabody mystery series. Elizabeth Peters, Lion in the Valley (1986), about a woman archaeologist whose exciting new dig is delayed when her eight-year-old son is abducted; #4 in the Amelia Peabody mystery series. Elizabeth Peters, The Deeds of the Disturber (1988), about a woman archaeologist who is skeptical of the theory that a night watchman in the British museum died as the result of an Egyptian mummy's curse; #5 in the Amelia Peabody mystery series. Elizabeth Peters, The Last Camel Died at Noon (1991), about a woman archaeologist and her family who travel to the Sudan, hoping an ancient map will lead them to a secret oasis; #6 in the Amelia Peabody mystery series. Elizabeth Peters, The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog (1992), about an amateur sleuth who must rescue her archeologist husband when he is kidnapped after they return to Amarna, where they fell in love; #7 in the Amelia Peabody mystery series. Elizabeth Peters, The Hippopotamus Pool (1996), about a woman archaeologist and her family menaced by a resourceful villain as they begin to excavate an undisturbed royal tomb in Egypt; #8 in the Amelia Peabody mystery series. Elizabeth Peters, Seeing a Large Cat (1997), about a woman archaeologist who stumbles across a case of modern murder when she and her family excavate an ancient Egyptian tomb; #9 in the Amelia Peabody mystery series. Elizabeth Peters, The Ape Who Guards the Balance (1998), about a woman archaeologist whose son obtains a rare papyrus copy of the Egyptian Book of the Dead, a harbinger of trouble; #10 in the Amelia Peabody mystery series. Elizabeth Peters, The Falcon at the Portal (1999), about a woman archaeologist who lands in the middle of a murder mystery as she attempts to clear her son of the accusation of stealing artifacts; #11 in the Amelia Peabody mystery series. Elizabeth Peters, He Shall Thunder in the Sky (2000), about a woman archaeologist and her family whose Egyptian dig is complicated by WWI, the threat of a Turkish invasion, and spies; #12 in the Amelia Peabody mystery series. Elizabeth Peters, Lord of the Silent (2001), about a woman archaeologist who discovers a recently murdered corpse in an ancient tomb as her son and his bride cope with treachery; #13 in the Amelia Peabody mystery series. Elizabeth Peters, The Golden One (2002), about a woman archaeologist who must solve the modern murder of a tomb robber as her son undertakes a mission for British intelligence amid the First World War; #14 in the Amelia Peabody mystery series. Elizabeth Peters, Children of the Storm (2003), about a woman archaeologist who must face her most formidable adversary at the end of World War I; #15 in the Amelia Peabody mystery series. Elizabeth Peters, Guardian of the Horizon (2004), about a woman archaeologist and her family who travel to a lost oasis; #16 in the Amelia Peabody mystery series. Elizabeth Peters, The Serpent on the Crown (2005), about a woman archaeologist who agrees to help a widow identify and return to its tomb a priceless gold statuette said to be cursed; #17 in the Amelia Peabody mystery series. Elizabeth Peters, Tomb of the Golden Bird (2006), about a family of archaeologists lured into a dangerous mystery as Carnarvon and Carter excavate the magnificent tomb of Tutankhamen, which they had hoped to excavate themselves; #18 in the Amelia Peabody mystery series. Elizabeth Peters, A River in the Sky (2010), about a husband-wife archaeology team asked to set up a dig in Jerusalem as a cover to investigate a possible German espionage operation; #19 in the Amelia Peabody mystery series. Review
Tim Powers, Hide Me Among the Graves (2012), a supernatural thriller about a veterinarian and a former prostitute who in 1862 discover their daughter is being menaced by a ghostly vampire who may be John Polidori, once Lord Byron's physician and the author of the first work of vampire fiction. Sarah Pinborough, Mayhem (2013), about a police surgeon faced with the work of a different serial killer while Jack the Ripper remains loose in 1880s London.
Amanda Quick, The Third Circle (2008), paranormal romantic suspense about a woman in Victorian England who reads crystals and encounters a psychic mesmerist standing over a murdered woman's body; #4 in the Arcane Society series, and the second with a historical setting. Amanda Quick, The Perfect Poison (2009), paranormal romantic suspense about a woman botanist in Victorian England who, at a murder scene, discovers traces of a poison that can only have come from a rare fern stolen from her own conservatory; #6 in the Arcane Society series, and the third with a historical setting. Amanda Quick, Burning Lamp (2010), paranormal romantic suspense about two rivals with psychic abilities and a woman working for social reform in Victorian England; #8 in the Arcane Society series, and the fourth with a historical setting. Amanda Quick, Quicksilver (2011), paranormal romantic suspense about a woman rescued from a murder scene by a man who hunts killers with psychic powers; #11 in the Arcane Society series, and the fifth with a historical setting. Amanda Quick, Crystal Gardens (2012), about a novelist who researches paranormal phenomena and grows curious about a ruined abbey next door to her vacation cottage, which leads her into a murder investigation; #1 in the Ladies of Lantern Street mystery series. Amanda Quick, The Mystery Woman (2013), about a woman on a secret mission and a man who conducts investigations for the crown and suspects her of murder and blackmail; #2 in the Ladies of Lantern Street mystery series. Amanda Quick, Otherwise Engaged Amanda Quick, Til Death Do Us Part (2016), romantic suspense about a woman in Victorian London who runs an agency that provides introductions for respectable men and women without partners.
Deanna Raybourn, Silent in the Sanctuary (2008), an aristocratic young widow and a private enquiry agent investigate the murder of a curate; #2 in the Lady Julia Grey series. Deanna Raybourn, Silent on the Moor (2009), an aristocratic young widow visiting an ancient Yorkshire family's decrepit house tries to track down a poisoner; #3 in the Lady Julia Grey series. Review Deanna Raybourn, Dark Road to Darjeeling (2010), about a newlywed amateur sleuth who goes to India with her detective husband to help a friend who fears her own husband was murdered and she and her unborn child may be the next targets.
Laura Joh Rowland, The Secret Adventures of Charlotte Brontë, a thriller which imagines that nineteenth century author Charlotte Brontë stumbled upon a case of murder while visiting her publisher in London. Review Laura Joh Rowland, Bedlam (2010), a thriller which imagines that author Charlotte Brontë discovers a former lover of hers confined in London's notorious madhouse and under suspicion of being a grisly serial killer; sequel to The Secret Adventures of Charlotte Brontë. Lloyd Shepherd, The English Monster: Or, the Melancholy Transactions of William Ablass (2012), about a Thames River Police magistrate whose investigation of a series of brutal murders in 1811 London is connected to a case of enslavement in 1564. Lynn Shepherd, Tom-All-Alone’s (2012; titled The Solitary House in the U.S.), a spin-off from the Dickens novel Bleak House in which an unfairly dismissed policeman trying to make a living as a private detective accepts a job from sinister lawyer Edward Tulkinghorn. Review Lynn Shepherd, A Treacherous Likeness (2013), about a young detective asked to assist the son of Percy Bysshe Shelley and his wife Mary, and begins to question whether Shelley's first wife committed suicide or was murdered; sequel to Tom-All-Alone's/The Solitary House. Sergio Silveira, The Secret of Ravelston Alastair Sim, The Unbelievers (2010), about a Scottish police inspector and his assistant who investigate the murder of Scotland's richest man in 1865. Dan Simmons, The Fifth Heart (2015), about Sherlock Holmes and Henry James teaming up to investigate the suicide of Clover Adams, wife of the historian Henry Adams who was related to two U.S. Presidents. Nicola Slade, Murder Most Welcome Joanna Campbell Slan, Death of a Schoolgirl (2012), a mystery featuring Jane Eyre, now Mrs. Rochester, as the sleuth who investigates the death of a schoolmate of Mr. Rochester's ward; #1 in the Jane Eyre Chronicles series. Joanna Campbell Slan, Death of a Dowager (2013), a mystery featuring Charlotte Brontë's fictional heroine Jane Eyre, now Mrs. Rochester, investigating the death of her former rival's mother; #2 in the Jane Eyre Chronicles series. Martin Cruz Smith, Rose (1996), a thriller about a man assigned to find a missing curate in a nineteenth century Lancashire coal-mining town.
Sally Spencer, Blackstone and the Tiger Sally Spencer, Blackstone and the Golden Egg Sally Spencer, Blackstone and the Firebug Sally Spencer, Blackstone and the Balloon of Death (2006), about a Scotland Yard inspector who must solve the case of an actor murdered onstage with a poisoned dagger; #5 in the Inspector Sam Blackstone series. Sally Spencer, Blackstone and the Heart of Darkness Sally Spencer, Blackstone and the New World (2010), about a Scotland Yard inspector who goes to New York to pick up a prisoner and finds himself helping to investigate a murder the New York police seem not to want to solve; #7 in the Inspector Sam Blackstone series. Sally Spencer, Blackstone and the Wolf of Wall Street (2010), about a Scotland Yard inspector seconded to the New York Police Department who investigates the kidnapping of a reclusive millionare in 1900; #8 in the Inspector Sam Blackstone series.
Jack Steel, The Ripper Secret (2012), a thriller which imagines the Ripper murders were part of a search for a gold relic in the possession of the police commissioner. D.J. Taylor, Kept: A Victorian Mystery (2006), a literary mystery set in the 1860s about a London police captain investigating the case of a mentally frail widow abducted by an odd naturalist after her husband dies in an apparent riding accident. D. J. Taylor, Derby Day (2011), a mystery revolving around the racing horse Tiberius as Victorian London looks forward to the biggest horse race of the year. Review at The Independent
Sherry Thomas, A Conspiracy in Belgravia (2018), about a young woman who, under the assumed name of Sherlock Holmes, is hired to find a woman's first love after he fails to appear at their annual rendezvous; #2 in the Lady Sherlock mystery series. Sherry Thomas, The Hollow of Fear (2018), about a young woman who, under the assumed name of Sherlock Holmes, disguises herself to investigate the truth behind a murder of a dear friend's estranged wife; #3 in the Lady Sherlock mystery series.
Will Thomas, To Kingdom Come (2005), about an enquiry agent and his assistant in Victorian London who infiltrate a group of violent Irish dissidents; #2 in the Barker and Llewelyn series. Will Thomas, The Limehouse Text (2006), about an enquiry agent and his assistant in Victorian London who investigate a Chinese killer using ancient martial arts illegal in England; #3 in the Barker and Llewelyn series. Will Thomas, The Hellfire Conspiracy (2007), about an enquiry agent and his new assistant who investigate a serial killer of young women who may belong to the infamous Hellfire Club; #4 in the Barker and Llewelyn series. Will Thomas, The Black Hand (2008), about an enquiry agent and his new assistant who investigate the murder of an Italian assassin which leads to a vendetta of rival Italian gangs; #5 in the Barker and Llewelyn series. Will Thomas, Fatal Enquiry (2014), about about an enquiry agent whose old enemy reappears and attempts to frame him for a murder, while the agent's assistant contends with a gang of criminals; #6 in the Barker and Llewelyn series. Will Thomas, Anatomy of Evil (2015), about an enquiry agent named temporary envoy to the Royal Family in 1888 in order to secretly investigate, with his assistant's help, the serial murders by the Whitechapel Killer; #7 in the Barker & Llewelyn mystery series. Will Thomas, Hell Bay (2016), about an enquiry agent who reluctantly accepts an assigment to provide security for diplomats attending a secret conference on a remote Cornish island where, soon after he an his assistant arrive, two diplomats are murdered.; #8 in the Barker & Llewelyn mystery series. Will Thomas, Old Scores (2017), about an enquiry agent accused of the murder of a Japanese ambassador in 1890, after a Japanese delegation arrives in London to open their first embassy there; #9 in the Barker & Llewelyn mystery series. Will Thomas, Blood Is Blood (2018), about an enquiry agent and his junior partner who must find out who is trying to murder them both, after a bombing that leaves the senior agent in the hospital; #10 in the Barker & Llewelyn mystery series.
Brian Thompson, The Captain's Table (2009; titled The Sailor's Ransom Brian Thompson, The Player's Curse (2010), about a novelist whose decides to get to the bottom of her fiancé's secrets; #3 in the Bella Wallis mystery series.
June Thomson, The Secret Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes June Thomson, The Secret Journals of Sherlock Holmes June Thomson, Holmes and Watson June Thomson, The Secret Documents of Sherlock Holmes June Thomson, The Secret Notebooks of Sherlock Holmes June Thomson, The Secret Archives of Sherlock Holmes June Thomson, Sherlock Holmes and the Lady in Black
E.S. Thomson, Dark Asylum (2017), about a London apothecary and an architect who search for the truth behind the murder of a physician in an insane asylum in 1851; #2 in the Jem Flockhart mystery series. E.S. Thomson, The Blood (2018), about a London apothecary and an architect who investigate a series of suspicious deaths connected to a seamen's hospital ship; #3 in the Jem Flockhart mystery series. Review
Christine Trent, Stolen Remains (2014), about a woman undertaker who, at the request of Queen Victoria, investigates the apparent suicide of a diplomat shortly after he returns from Egypt; #2 in the Lady of Ashes mystery series. Christine Trent, A Virtuous Death (2014), about a woman undertaker who must find out why Mr. Brown's tarot readings for Queen Victoria are accurately predicting murders; #3 in the Lady of Ashes mystery series. Christine Trent, The Mourning Bells (2015), about a woman undertaker who fears something more sinister than coincidence may be behind the near-escape of two men from being buried alive after they ring the bells provided in their coffins as a safeguard; #4 in the Lady of Ashes mystery series.
Bridget Walsh, The Tumbling Girl (2023), about a young woman who hires a private detective to investigate the murder of her friend, an acrobat at a music hall in Victorian London. Review Bridget Walsh, The Innocents (2024), about the manager and co-owner of a music hall in Victorian London who investigates a murder which may be connected to an earlier tragedy at a different theatre. Review Kate Williams, The Pleasures of Men (2012), about a young woman in Victorian London who moves into her uncle's strange house after she is orphaned, and begins writing about a series of gruesome murders. A.J. Wright, Striking Murder (2016), about a police detective in 1893 investigating the murder of a hated colliery owner during a miner's strike.
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Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813), about a young woman who spurns the attentions of Mr. Darcy, a wealthy and attractive single man; technically not a historical novel, since Austen's classic novels were set in her own time. Jane Austen, Mansfield Park (1814), about an orphaned young woman whose mother married for love, and who must live with wealthy relatives who consider her a poor relation; technically not a historical novel, since Austen's classic novels were set in her own time. Jane Austen, Emma (1815), about a well-meaning young woman who meddles in the lives of others by trying to arrange their romances; technically not a historical novel, since Austen's classic novels were set in her own time. Jane Austen, Persuasion (1817), about a woman who broke her engagement with a young naval officer because her relatives considered him a social inferior. Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (1817), about a romantic young woman who imagines dramatic situations because of her habit of reading Gothic novels; technically not a historical novel, since Austen's classic novels were set in her own time; published posthumously although it was the first novel she wrote. Anonymous and Jane Austen, Sanditon: Jane Austen’s Last Novel Completed, a modern writer completes a story fragment by Jane Austen. Jo Baker, Longbourn (2013), about the servants in the Bennet household from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Review Julia Barrett, Jane Austen's Charlotte (2000), a completion of Jane Austen's unfinished last novel, Sanditon. Joan Aiken, Emma Watson (1996), a completion of Jane Austen's unfinished novel The Watsons
Pamela Aidan, Duty and Desire, a retelling of Pride and Prejudice from Mr. Darcy’s viewpoint; #2 in the Darcy trilogy. Pamela Aidan, These Three Remain, a retelling of Pride and Prejudice from Mr. Darcy’s viewpoint; #3 in the Darcy trilogy.
Joan Aiken, Jane Fairfax: The Secret Story of the Second Heroine in Jane Austen’s Emma (1990), a story spun off from Emma. Joan Aiken, Eliza's Daughter (1994), about the free-spirited illegitimate child Eliza, befriended by poets Wordsworth and Coleridge during her jaunts about the countryside, and her quest to find out about her paraents; a sequel to Sense and Sensibility. Joan Aiken, Lady Catherine's Necklace
Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits and Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, the youngest daughter of Elizabeth and Fitzwilliam Darcy regrets having married; #2 in the Darcy series. Elizabeth Aston, The True Darcy Spirit, Mr. Darcy’s artistic cousin tries to make a living as a painter while evading the unwelcome attentions of a lord; #3 in the Darcy series. Elizabeth Aston, The Second Mrs. Darcy, the young widow of Captain Christopher Darcy returns to London to discover she is a wealthy woman; #4 in the Darcy series. Elizabeth Aston, The Darcy Connection (2008), about the daughters of Mr. Collins and his wife Charlotte; #5 in the Darcy series. Elizabeth Aston, Mr. Darcy's Dream (2009), about two unmarried girls visiting Pemberley as preparations for a ball are underway; #6 in the Darcy series.
Joan Austen-Leigh, Later Days at Highbury Janet Aylmer, Darcy’s Story, a retelling of Pride and Prejudice from Mr. Darcy’s perspective. Ted and Marilyn Bader, Desire and Duty : A Sequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice Ted Bader, Virtue and Vanity
Helen Baker, The Watsons by Jane Austen and Another Lady Helen Baker, Playfulness Helen Baker, The Book of Ruth Helen Baker, Preciptation, a sequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice centering on Miss Caroline Bingley; self-published. Helen Baker, Connivance Helen Baker, Lady Susan Revived, a rewritten version of Lady Susan, the novel about a beautiful but scheming woman which Jane Austen wrote at age nineteen and never submitted for publication; self-published. Helen Baker, Maria: Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey Continued, a sequel to Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey centering on John Thorpe; self-published.
Linda Berdoll, Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife (originally published under the title The Bar Sinister), #1 in the author's series of spicy sequels to Pride and Prejudice. Linda Berdoll, Darcy and Elizabeth: Nights and Days at Pemberley, #2 in the author's series of spicy sequels to Pride and Prejudice. Rachel Billington, Emma and Knightley: Perfect Happiness in Highbury (2008), a sequel to Emma about the early married life of Emma and Mr. Knightley. Diana Birchall, Mrs. Darcy’s Dilemma, a sequel to Pride and Prejudice. Dorothy Bonavia-Hunt, Pemberley Shades, a sequel to Pride and Prejudice. Sybil G. Brinton, Old Friends and New Fancies: An Imaginary Sequel to the Novels of Jane Austen, borrows characters from all six of Jane Austen’s novels. Jean Burnett, Who Needs Mr. Darcy? Skylar Hamilton Burris, Conviction, a sequel to Pride and Prejudice.
Rebecca Ann Collins, The Women of Pemberley (2008), a sequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice which follows the lives of five women into the early Victorian period; #2 in the Pemberley Chronicles series. Rebecca Ann Collins, Netherfield Park Revisited (2008), a sequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice about the daughter of Elizabeth Bennett and Fitzwilliam Darcy; #3 in the Pemberley Chronicles series. Rebecca Ann Collins, The Ladies of Longbourn (2008), about a young woman in the third generation of the Darcys and their neighbors in Victorian England; #4 in the Pemberley Chronicles series. Rebecca Ann Collins, Mr. Darcy's Daughter (2008), a sequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice about the son of Charles and Jane Bingley; #5 in the Pemberley Chronicles series. Rebecca Ann Collins, My Cousin Caroline (2008), a sequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice about Elizabeth Darcy's cousin Caroline Gardiner; #6 in the Pemberley Chronicles series. Rebecca Ann Collins, Postscript from Pemberley (2008, new Sourcebooks edition 2009), a sequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice about the generation of Mr. and Mrs. Darcy's grandchildren; #6 in the Pemberley Chronicles series. Review
Jane Dawkins, More Letters from Pemberley: 1814-1819, a sequel to Pride and Prejudice. Joan Ellen Delman, Miss de Bourgh's Adventure Joan Ellen Delman, Lovers' Perjuries; Or, the Clandestine Courtship of Jane Fairfax and Frank Churchill, a re-telling of Jane Austen's Emma. Anne Fafoutakis, Mrs. Fitzwilliam Darcy and Other Stories, short stories about the Darcys’ marriage. Monica Fairview, The Other Mr. Darcy (2009; available in the U.K., forthcoming in the U.S. in October 2009), about an unlikely romance between Caroline Bingley and Fitzwilliam Darcy's American cousin; a sequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Marjorie Fasman, The Diary of Henry Fitzwilliam Darcy Phyllis Furley, The Darcys : Scenes from Married Life Jane Gillespie, Aunt Celia Jane Gillespie, Teverton Hall Seth Grahame-Smith and Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2009), a send-up of Pride and Prejudice in which words and scenes are added to Austen's original text to create a tale of zombie mayhem. Review Seth Grahame-Smith and Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters (2009), a send-up of Sense and Sensibility in which words and scenes are added to Austen's original text to create a tale of seaside horror.
Amanda Grange, Dear Mr. Darcy (2012), a retelling of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice in the form of letters written by Fitzwilliam Darcy. Amanda Grange, Edmund Bertram’s Diary, the story of Mansfield Park from Edmund Bertram’s perspective. Amanda Grange, Mr Knightley’s Diary, the story of Emma from Mr. Knightley’s perspective. Amanda Grange, Captain Wentworth’s Diary, the story of Persuasion from Captain Wentworth's perspective. Amanda Grange, Colonel Brandon's Diary (2008), the story of Sense and Sensibility from Colonel Brandon's perspective. Amanda Grange, Wickham’s Diary (2011), a prequel to Pride and Prejudice about George Wickham, the impoverished and envious friend of the wealthy Fitzwilliam Darcy. Amanda Grange, Henry Tilney's Diary (2011), a retelling of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey from the perspective of Henry Tilney.
Anne Hampson, Pemberley Place Syrie James, The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen Syrie James, The Missing Manuscript of Jane Austen (2013), a novel-within-a-novel about a modern woman who discovers a lost Austen manuscript, and the manuscript's content, a story about a village rector's daughter and her difficulties after she and her father are forced from their home. Syrie James, Jane Austen’s First Love (2014), about Jane Austen at fifteen and the handsome, wealthy man she meets during her brother's engagement celebration. Regina Jeffers, Darcy’s Passions (2008), a version of Pride and Prejudice told from Mr. Darcy’s point of view. Regina Jeffers, Darcy’s Dreams (2008), a sequel to Pride and Prejudice and Darcy's Passions; self-published. Susan Kaye, None But You, the story of Persuasion from Frederick Wentworth’s point of view; #1 in the Frederick Wentworth, Captain series. Susan Kaye, For You Alone, the story of Persuasion from Frederick Wentworth’s point of view; #2 in the Frederick Wentworth, Captain series.
Sharon Lathan, Loving Mr. Darcy (2009), about Mr. and Mrs. Darcy as they enjoy the pleasures of the marriage bed and await the birth of their first child; #2 in the Darcy Saga. Sharon Lathan, My Dearest Mr. Darcy (2010), about the birth of the Darcys' first child and their first wedding anniversary; #3 in the Darcy Saga. Sharon Lathan, In the Arms of Mr. Darcy (2010), about Mr. and Mrs. Darcy a year after their wedding; #4 in the Darcy Saga. Sharon Lathan, The Trouble with Mr. Darcy (2011), about the return of George Wickham, which endangers Mrs. Darcy and the baby, requiring Mr. Darcy to rescue them; #5 in the Darcy Saga.
Colleen McCullough, The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet (2008), a sequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice about Elizabeth Bennet Darcy's apparently unmarriageable sister Mary, who has cared for her mother until, twenty years after the close of Pride and Prejudice, she is freed to pursue her own adventures. Review Pamela Mingle, The Pursuit of Mary Bennet (2013), a sequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice in which Elizabeth's sister Mary goes to stay with the Darcys and meets a handsome, single gentleman who showers her with attention. Nancy Moser, Just Jane, a biographical novel about the author Jane Austen. Elizabeth Newark, The Darcys Give a Ball: A Gentle Joke, Jane Austen Style (2008), about Fitzwilliam Darcy’s younger brother. Elizabeth Newark, Consequence; Or, Whatever Became of Charlotte Lucas Jane Odiwe, Mr. Darcy’s Secret (2011), a Pride and Prejudice sequel in which Elizabeth tries to get to the bottom of gossip about Mr. Darcy's past.
Abigail Reynolds, The Last Man in the World, A Pride and Prejudice Variation, a novel that explores what might have happened if a character had made a different choice at one point in the Pride and Prejudice story; #2 in the Pemberley Variations series. Abigail Reynolds, Without Reserve, A Pride and Prejudice Variation, a novel that explores what might have happened if a character had made a different choice at one point in the Pride and Prejudice story; #3 in the Pemberley Variations series. Abigail Reynolds, By Force of Instinct: A Pride & Prejudice Variation Abigail Reynolds, From Lambton to Longbourn, A Pride and Prejudice Variation, a novel that explores what might have happened if a character had made a different choice at one point in the Pride and Prejudice story; #5 in the Pemberley Variations series.
Laurie Viera Rigler, Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict (forthcoming in 2009), about a young woman from Regency England who slips forward into the modern world, where at first she relishes her freedom but then feels bewildered by the dating customs; sequel to Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict. Jane Rubino and Caitlen Rubino-Bradway, Lady Vernon and her Daughter (2009), a full-length novel based on Jane Austen's novella Lady Susan, about a mother and daughter left in dire financial straits when the father of the family dies and the son who inherits his money fails to support his mother and sister. Patrice Sarath, The Unexpected Miss Bennet (2011), a sequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice centering on Elizabeth's shy and bookish younger sister Mary. Juliette Shapiro, Excessively Diverted Mary Street, The Confession of Fitzwilliam Darcy, the story of Pride and Prejudice told from Mr. Darcy’s point of view. Emma Tennant, Pemberley, Or Pride and Prejudice Continued, a sequel to Pride and Prejudice. Emma Tennant, An Unequal Marriage, picks up nineteen years after the close of Pride and Prejudice, with Mr. and Mrs. Darcy regretting their marriage. Emma Tennant, Emma in Love Mysteries Inspired by Jane Austen
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Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Man of the Cloth (1997), a fictional Jane Austen investigates the mysterious identity of a smuggler known as "the Reverend"; #2 in the Jane Austen mystery series. Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Wandering Eye (1998), a fictional Jane Austen investigates the shocking death of a theatre manager; #3 in the Jane Austen mystery series. Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Genius of the Place (1999), a fictional Jane Austen investigates a murder at the races; #4 in the Jane Austen mystery series. Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Stillroom Maid (2000), a fictional Jane Austen investigates a savage murder amid the beauty of the Derbyshire countryside; #5 in the Jane Austen mystery series. Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Prisoner of Wool House (2001), a fictional Jane Austen investigates a murder at sea; #6 in the Jane Austen mystery series. Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Ghosts of Netley (2003), a fictional Jane Austen investigates a suspected case of high treason that leads to murder; #7 in the Jane Austen mystery series. Stephanie Barron, Jane and His Lordship's Legacy (2005), a fictional Jane Austen receives an unusual legacy and stumbles across a corpse; #8 in the Jane Austen mystery series. Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Barque of Frailty (2006), a fictional Jane Austen investigates the murder of a beautiful Russian princess; #9 in the Jane Austen mystery series. Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Madness of Lord Byron (2010), a fictional Jane Austen investigates the death of a beautiful young woman in Lord Byron's room at a Brighton resort; #10 in the Jane Austen mystery series. Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Canterbury Tale (2016), a mystery in which a fictional Jane Austen, while visiting her magistrate brother, investigates a murder which appears to have been committed by one of his friends; #11 in the Jane Austen mystery series. Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Twelve Days of Christmas (2014), a mystery in which a fictional Jane Austen suspects that a tragic accident during a Christmas holiday is not really an accident; #12 in the Jane Austen mystery series. Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Waterloo Map (2016), a mystery in which a fictional Jane Austen investigates the poisoning death of a colonel who utters the words "Waterloo map" before he expires; #13 in the Jane Austen mystery series.
Carrie Bebris, Suspense and Sensibility (2005), when Mr. and Mrs. Darcy arrange a marriage for her sister Kitty, an alarming and potentially fatal puzzle ensues; #2 in the Mr. and Mrs. Darcy mystery series. Carrie Bebris, North by Northanger (2006), when Mr. Darcy and the pregnant Mrs. Darcy are invited to Northanger Abbey, secrets from the past arise to bedevil their visit; #3 in the Mr. and Mrs. Darcy mystery series Carrie Bebris, The Matters at Mansfield (2008), after the birth of their first child, Mr. and Mrs. Darcy visit Mansfield Park, where they must track down a murderer; #4 in the Mr. and Mrs. Darcy mystery series.
The European Continent and Mediterranean in the 19th Century (plus Iceland)
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Alison Anderson, The Summer Guest (2016), about a present-day woman struggling to save her publishing house, and about a woman who became friends with Anton Chekhov during the summer of 1888 and kept a diary found by the present-day woman. K.J. Anderson, Captain Nemo: The Fantastic History of a Dark Genius (2002), about the young Jules Verne and his two best friends, a poor shipbuilder's son and a wealthy merchant's daughter. Alla Avilova, Revelation of Fire David Ball, Empires of Sand, set in nineteenth century Paris and the Sahara Desert. Julian Barnes, Flaubert’s Parrot, a literary novel about an amateur Flaubert scholar trying to track down a stuffed parrot that belonged to the nineteenth century French author. Alessandro Baricco, Silk, a nineteenth century Frenchman has an affair while in Japan trying to buy silkworm eggs. Sarah Bayliss, Utrillo's Mother (1987), about the late nineteenth century Parisian artist Suzanne Valadon, whose reputation was eclipsed by that of her son, Maurice Utrillo. Eric Berbig, The People's Will (2010), a thriller about a Russian homicide detective ordered by the secret police to track down a cell of terrorists bent on assassinating the tsar; self-published. Elizabeth Berg, The Dream Lover (2015), about Aurore Dupin, who changes her name to George Sand after leaving her husband and moving to Paris to write novels. Peter Brooks, The Emperor’s Body (2011), about a man who joins the 1840 French expedition to bring Napoleon's body back from St. Helena, and the woman he leaves behind in France. Cathy Marie Buchanan, The Painted Girls (2012), about Marie van Goethem, who modeled for Edgar Degas’s bronze sculpture "Little Dancer Aged 14," and her sister. Tom Bullough, Konstantin, (2012), about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, a Russian boy who lost his hearing in 1867 at age ten but went on to teach himself science and discover the possibility of space travel. Sheramy Bundrick, Sunflowers (2009), about a young prostitute who falls in love with the artist Vincent van Gogh during the last two years of his life. Review Serena Burdick, Girl in the Afternoon (2016), about an eighteen-year-old Parisian girl whose foster brother disappears during the Franco-Prussian War in 1870 and, while she is studying painting with the Impressionist Edouard Manet, re-emerges in circumstances that threaten to tear her family apart. Andrea Camilleri, Hunting Season (1992), a comic about a Sicilian fishing village which experiences a rash of murders after the return in 1880 of a man who fled the town as a child after his father was murdered. Andrea Camilleri, The Brewer of Preston (2014), a comic novel about a town in 1870s Sicily whose populace rebels by wreaking havoc on an opera being put on by their pompous Italian governor; a prequel to Hunting Season. Peter Carey, Parrot and Olivier in America (2010), about a traumatized survivor of the French Revolution whose parents send him to America in the company of a servant who survived an Australian penal colony; a fictionalized version of the story of Alexis de Tocqueville. Review by Ursula K. Le Guin at The Guardian Maud Casey, The Man Who Walked Away (2014), about the doctor in a nineteenth-century Bordeaux asylum and a man who arrives there after compulsively walking with no clear idea of why; loosely based on the story of psychiatric patient Albert Dadas. Megan Chance, Inamorata (2014), a story of the supernatural about brother-and-sister twins who flee scandal in New York for the art world of Venice, where they meet a seductive courtesan and her former lover, now her enemy. C. John Coombes, Claus: A Christmas Incarnation: The Child (2000), an adult Christmas story that begins in Scandinavia and ends on the American frontier in the early nineteenth century; self-published ebook. C. John Coombes, Claus: A Christmas Incarnation: The Woman (2009), sequel to Claus; self-published ebook. Stephanie Cowell, Claude and Camille (2010), about the French Impressionist artist Claude Monet and his first wife Camille Doncieux. Review or Author Interview Jill Dawson, Wild Boy (2003), about an autistic boy found running wild in the woods in the years after the French Revolution and brought to Paris by a young doctor who studies him while training him to live in civilized society. Tatiana de Rosnay, The House I Loved, (2012), about a woman who resists the forced rebuilding of her Paris neighborhood in the 1860s by hiding in the cellar and, in the process, comes to terms with a secret she has carried for many years. Patrick Deville, Plague and Cholera Guiseppe di Lampedusa, The Leopard (1958), about a middle-aged Sicilian prince during the 1860s during the decline of the aristocracy amid Garibaldi's unification of Italy. The author died in 1957 after publishers had rejected this novel, his only one; it was published the following year, stirring controversy and winning critical acclaim. Gioia Diliberto, I Am Madame X, about the artist John Singer Sargent, the beautiful Paris socialite he painted in a low-cut black dress in 1884, and the controversy over the painting that ruined her reputation. Bruce Duffy, Disaster Was My God (2011), a biographical novel about the nineteenth-century French poet Arthur Rimbaud, whose passionate, turmoil-filled life ended when he was thirty-seven. Patricia Duncker, Sophie and the Sibyl Susanne Dunlap, Liszt’s Kiss, about a sheltered young woman pianist during a cholera epidemic in nineteenth century Paris. Umberto Eco, The Prague Cemetery (2011), a novel which imagines that one man produced the forged document, "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion," purportedly the work of a power-mongering Jewish conspiracy, which set off a wave of anti-Semitism in nineteenth-century Europe. Arabella Edge, The God of Spring (titled The Raft Selden Edwards, The Little Book (2008), about a California man who suddenly finds himself transported from 1988 San Francisco to 1897 Vienna. Sebastian Faulks, A Possible Life (2013), a collection of five novellas set in various times and places from nineteenth-century France to Italy in 2029, loosely linked through their themes about the way people's choices affect their life trajectories. Review at The Washington Post Rachel Field, All This, and Heaven Too (1938), about the young governess Henriette Deluzy-Desportes, who takes a job with the Duc and Duchesse de Choiseul-Praslin and a few years later finds herself at the center of a scandalous murder trial; based on historical events. Review Susan Fletcher, Let Me Tell You About A Man I Knew (2016), about Van Gogh during the years when he was confined to a mental hospital in Provence, as narrated by the wife of the doctor who cared for him. Filip Florian, The Days of the King (2011), a comic novel about a Prussian dentist who travels to Bucharest in 1866 with a captain of dragoons who is about to become the King of Romania. Kate Forsyth, The Wild Girl (2015), about Dortchen Wild, who became the wife of Wilhelm Grimm, one of the Grimm Brothers who collected fairy tales. Jon Fosse, Melancholy (1995), about the nineteenth century Norwegian landscape painter Lars Hertervig and his struggle with mental illness. Laurent Gaudé, The House of Scorta, a family saga set in a small village in Italy, beginning in the late nineteenth century. David Gibbins, The Mask of Troy (2010), about Heinrich Schliemann, the German archaeologist who discovered Troy in 1876, clues found in Germany in 1845 about antiquities looted by the Nazis, and a present-day marine archaeologist who discovers a shipwrecked galley that could be from Agamemnon's fleet. Maureen Gibbon, Paris Red (2015), about Victorine Meurent, the young woman who modeled for Impressionist artist Edouard Manet's most notorious paintings. Natalia Ginzburg, The Manzoni Family (1983 in the original Italian; English edition 1987), about the nineteenth-century Italian novelist Alessandro Manzoni and his family. Review at the LA Times Daisy Goodwin, The Fortune Hunter (2014), about Empress Elizabeth of Austria and her affair with a British army officer. Noah Gordon, La Bodega (2000; apparently available only in Spanish and Catalan editions), about the second son of a Spanish vineyard owner who becomes caught up in the Carlist War. C.W. Gortner, The First Actress (2020), about the remarkable life and career of Sarah Bernhardt, the most celebrated actress of her day. Eliza Granville, Gretel and the Dark (2014), about a girl who becomes the patient of psychoanalyst Josef Breuer in 1899 Vienna, and a girl in Nazi Germany who escapes her troubles by remembering the fairy tales her nurse has told her. Hella Haasse, The Tea Lords (1992 in the original Dutch, English translation 2010), about a young Dutch planter who establishes his own tea plantation in Java. Review Ron Hansen, Exiles (2008), about the Jesuit seminarian Gerard Manley Hopkins and the 1875 shipwreck of a steamship with five exiled nuns aboard which goaded him to become a poet. Kristen Harnisch, The Vintner's Daughter (2014), about a young French woman, the daughter of a Loire Valley winemaker, who travels to California after her father dies and the family's vineyard is sold to a rival family. Kristen Harnisch, The California Wife (2016), about a young French woman whose dream of building a successful Napa Valley winery with her husband is complicated by early twentieth-century threats ranging from price wars to phylloxera and prohibition; sequel to The Vintner's Daughter. Robert Harris, An Officer And A Spy (2014), about Georges Picquart, a French official who, after evidence of government deception emerges, begins to regret his role in the prosecution of Alfred Dreyfus as a German spy. Zsolt Harsanyi, Immortal Franz James Heneage, A World On Fire (2018), about a young Peloponnesian woman and a Greek prince who rebel against Ottoman rule in 1821. Stella K. Hershan, The Naked Angel Elizabeth Hickey, The Painted Kiss (2005), about a student of the controversial Viennese artist Gustav Klimt and the romantic relationship that develops between them. Frederick Highland, The Ghost Eater, an adventure story about an American riverboat captain in late nineteenth century Dutch Sumatra. Dara Horn, The World to Come (2006), about the modern-day theft of a Marc Chagall painting and about the young artist himself, a Russian Jew who lived and worked in France during the early twentieth century. Simonetta Agnello Hornby, The Nun (2012), about an Italian woman forced to become a nun after a journey to Naples who continues to correspond with the ship captain who befriended her. Dan Jacobson, All For Love (2005), about Princess Louise (the daughter of Leopold II of Belgium), banished from the Hapsburg capital, Vienna, for leaving her husband to pursue an affair with a cavalry officer. Christian Jacq, Champollion the Egyptian, about the nineteenth century Frenchman who first deciphered hieroglyphics and traveled to Egypt to safeguard the treasures in the Egyptian tombs. Carsten Jensen, We the Drowned (2010), about a group of Danes who go to sea in 1848 and experience trials that will haunt four generations. Review at the Washington Post Mór Jókai, The Baron's Sons: A Romance of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 (original Hungarian edition 1879, first English edition 1900), about an aristocratic Hungarian family during the revolutionary uprisings of 1848; a classic rather than true historical fiction. Mór Jókai, A Hungarian Nabob (1853), about a wealthy Hungarian aristocrat who marries a young girl in order to foil his scheming heir. Lillian Kayte, Vitebskii Hannah Kent, Burial Rites (2013), about Agnes Magnúsdóttir, the last person to be executed in Iceland, after she is convicted of murder in 1828 and held over the winter on the farm of the district officer, a relation of one of the murdered men. Review Kathe Koja, Under the Poppy (2010), about a man and woman in 1870s Brussels who own a brothel together which is forced to house soldiers when war looms. Andrew Krivak, The Sojourn (2011), about a boy who returns to Austria-Hungary with his father from a Colorado mining town, becomes a sharpshooter during World War I, and struggles to return to a normal family life. Jaan Kross, The Czar's Madman (1978 in the original Estonian, first English translation 1992), about an Estonian nobleman in the early 19th century who, when on friendly terms with the Russian czar, swears to always tell him the truth. Rosalind Laker, Brilliance, about a love affair in the late nineteenth century Paris film industry. Pierre La Mure, Clair de Lune Pierre La Mure, Moulin Rouge Mary Lancaster, A World to Win, set during the 1848 Hungarian Revolution. J.D. Landis, Longing, about the composer Robert Schumann and his pianist wife. Catherine LaRoche, Knight of Love Charles Lewinsky, Melnitz Mario Vargas Llosa, The Way to Paradise (2003), about the contrasting but similar lives of artist Paul Gauguin and the Peruvian grandmother he never knew, Flora Tristan. Michael Llewellyn, Creole Son Elizabeth Lord, A Secret Inheritance (2008), about a Frenchwoman who, after her father's funeral, searches for the truth about his stories about a secret inheritance. Karen Mack and Jennifer Kaufman, Freud's Mistress (2013), about the love affair between Sigmund Freud and his wife's sister. James MacManus, Black Venus (2014), about the French poet Charles Baudelaire and his lover Jeanne Duval, a Haitian cabaret singer. Robert Masello, Blood and Ice (2009), historical vampire fantasy about a contemporary journalist who discovers a man and a woman frozen into a block of ice in Antarctica, whose story goes back to the Crimean War. Jason C. Mavrovitis, Remember Us, a novel based on the lives of the authors' Bulgarian ancestors, beginning in the late nineteenth century during the collapse of the Ottoman Empire; self-published. Jude Morgan, Symphony (2007), about the nineteenth century French composer Berlioz and the actress who was his muse. Kate Mosse, Sepulchre (2008), spooky historical fantasy about a young woman in 1891 Paris who lives in the same apartment as the composer Claude Debussy, and a modern woman researching both the composer and her own ancestry. Lilian Nattel, The River Midnight (1999), about a free-spirited midwife in a fictional Jewish village in Poland in 1894. Robin Oliveira, I Always Loved You (2014), a novel which imagines the relationship American artist Mary Cassatt and French artist Edgar Degas might have had after meeting in Belle Époque Paris. Barbara Ortwein, Between Two Worlds, Never to Return (2013 in the original German, first English edition 2016), about a German revolutionary and his son and their long and arduous flight to Texas in 1844. Allison Pataki, The Accidental Empress (2015), about Elisabeth, Duchess of Bavaria, known as "Sisi," and her marriage to Emperor Franz Josef of Austria. Allison Pataki, Sisi: Empress on Her Own (2016), about Empress Elisabeth of Austria; sequel to The Accidental Empress. Alyson Richman, The Last Van Gogh (2006), a love story set in 1890 about the artist Van Gogh in the despairing last months of his life and the twenty-one-year-old daughter of his doctor, who flirts with him as he paints her. Elizabeth Robards, With Violets (2005), a romantic novel exploring the possibility that the impressionist painters Edouard Manet and Berthe Morisot may have been lovers. M.J. Rose, Seduction (2013), about a present-day French mythologist who travels to Jersey to study transcripts of seánces held by novelist Victor Hugo during his stay there in the 1850s. M.J. Rose, The Witch of Painted Sorrows (2015), about a New York socialite who flees her abusive husband and goes to live in her grandmother's haunted Paris mansion in the 1890s. Joseph Roth, The Radetzky March (1932), about three generations of an Austrian family after one of them saves the life of Emperor Franz Josef on the battlefield in 1859 and is ennobled on the spot. Anne Rouen, Master of Illusion Jack Salem, Pausing For A Backward Glance Esmeralda Santiago, Conquistadora (2011), about a convent-educated Spanish woman who, fascinated by her ancestors from Puerto Rico, marries a man who owns a sugar plantation there with his twin brother. Jose Saramago, Raised from the Ground (1980 in the original Portuguese; first English edition 2012), about a peasant family in Portugal and two generations of their descendents beginning in the late nineteenth century. Review at the New York Times Pamela Schoenewaldt, When We Were Strangers (2011), about a young seamstress who must leave her mountain village in Italy after her mother's death to make a new life for herself in America. Joe Scicluna, Ricasoli Soldier Joseph Shearing, Forget-Me-Not Joseph Skibell, A Curable Romantic (2010), a humorous literary novel about a man who falls in love with one of Freud's patients. Review Eva Stachniak, Garden of Venus Irving Stone, The Passions of the Mind (1971), a biographical novel about Sigmund Freud, the Austrian founder of psychoanalysis. Irving Stone, The Greek Treasure (1975), about Heinrich Schliemann, who discovered and excavated the site of Troy. Lisa Stromme, The Strawberry Girl (2016), about a young Norwegian woman in the 1890s who witnesses the tumultuous love affair that led Edvard Munch to paint "The Scream." Jean Teulé, The Poisoning Angel (2013 in the original French, English translation 2014), a dark comedy about the Breton serial killer Hélène Jégado. Review Colm Toibin, The Master (2004), about the nineteenth century American expatriate author Henry James and his life among the artists and writers of Paris, Rome, Venice and London. Jonathan Tulloch, A Winding Road Linda Urbach, Madame Bovary’s Daughter (2011), a novel which imagines a career in Paris couture for the daughter of the central characer in Gustave Flaubert's classic novel Madame Bovary. Review at NY Journal of Books Peter Vansittart, Hermes in Paris (2000), about the Greek trickster god Hermes, who visits Paris during the reign of Napoleon III and his empress Eugenie to play a joke. Mariolina Venezia, Been Here a Thousand Years (2009, titled Here for a Thousand Years in the U.K.), about an eccentric, poor Italian family from the 1860s through the 1980s. Susan Vreeland, Luncheon of the Boating Party (2007), about the men and women the nineteenth century French artist Renoir portrayed in his famous impressionist painting. Susan Vreeland, Life Studies (2004), short stories about artists and the people their art touches, most but not all set in the nineteenth century Impressionist and Post-Impressionist periods. Carey Wallace, The Blind Contessa's New Machine (2010), about a young Italian contessa who realizes she is going blind and, after her husband refuses to believe her, falls in love with an inventor who does and creates the world's first typewriter for her. Carol Wallace, Leaving Van Gogh (2011), about Paul Gachet, the doctor who cared for the troubled artist Vincent van Gogh in the last months of his life after he moves to the rural French town of Auvers-sur-Oise. Sylvia Townsend Warner, Summer Will Show (1936), about a British woman who travels to Paris in 1848 after her children die, and falls in love with another woman. David Weiss, Naked Came I (1963), about the nineteenth century French sculptor Auguste Rodin. Max White, The Midnight Gardener Sally Zigmond, Chasing Angels Richard Zimler, Hunting Midnight (2004), about a man in early nineteenth century Portugal who discovers he is secretly descended from Portuguese Jews, who travels in search of his friend Midnight, a black man betrayed, sold as a slave, and sent to America.
Mysteries: 19th Century European Continent
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Boris Akunin, Turkish Gambit (2004), after his capture by the Turks, a Russian gentleman soldier investigates a devious plot; #2 in the Erast Fandorin mystery series. Boris Akunin, Murder on the Leviathan (2004; also titled Leviathan), about a Russian gentleman sleuth competing with a French detective to find out who murdered an Englishman in Paris; #3 in the Erast Fandorin mystery series. Boris Akunin, The Death of Achilles (2005), about a Russian gentleman who investigates the death of his old friend, a famous Russian general; #4 in the Erast Fandorin mystery series Boris Akunin, Special Assignments (2007), about a Russian gentleman on the trail of a serial killer; #5 in the Erast Fandorin mystery series Boris Akunin, The State Counsellor Boris Akunin, The Coronation (2009), about a Russian detective who must investigate the kidnapping of a grand duke's child during the 1894 celebration of the last Tsar's coronation; #7 in the Erast Fandorin mystery series. Boris Akunin, She Lover of Death Boris Akunin, He Lover of Death (2010), about a Russian detective who must solve the mystery of a boy in a criminal gang and the beautiful woman he loves, nicknamed "Death" because of the short life spans of her lovers; #9 in the Erast Fandorin mystery series. Boris Akunin, The Diamond Chariot (2003 in the original Russian; 2011 in English translation), about a Russian detective assigned to protect the Trans-Siberian Railway from sabotage in 1905 during the Russo-Japanese War; #10 in the Erast Fandorin mystery series. Boris Akunin, All the World's a Stage (2009 in the original Russian; 2017 in English translation), about a Russian detective who falls in love with a beautiful Moscow actress whose ex-husband is a descendant of Genghis Khan and has threatened to kill anyone who courts her; #11 in the Erast Fandorin mystery series. Boris Akunin, Black City (2012 in the original Russian; 2018 in English translation), about a Russian detective asked to investigate the assassination of the Tzar's head of security in 1914, a quest which takes him to Baku, the center of Russian oil exploration and production; #12 in the Erast Fandorin mystery series.
Boris Akunin, Sister Pelagia and the Black Monk (2007), about a nineteenth century Russian nun who has difficulty investigating the mysterious deaths in a monastery because women are not allowed in its precincts; #2 in the Sister Pelagia mystery series. Boris Akunin, Pelagia and the Red Rooster (2008; titled Sister Pelagia and the Red Cockerel in the U.S.), about a nineteenth century Russian nun investigating a self-proclaimed prophet amid a series of sinister events, from murder to miracles; #3 in the Sister Pelagia mystery series.
Ann Dukthas, The Prince Lost to Time, about a time-traveling Jesuit in 1815 France investigating the mystery behind the death of Charles, the son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette; Nicholas Segalla mystery series #2; Ann Dukthas is a pen name of Paul (P.C.) Doherty. Ann Dukthas, The Time of Murder at Mayerling, about a time-travelling Jesuit in 1899 Austria investigating the mystery behind the death of the Hapsburg Prince Rudolph; Nicholas Segalla mystery series #3; Ann Dukthas is a pen name of Paul (P.C.) Doherty Cecilia Ekbäck, In the Month of the Midnight Sun (2016), about a geologist who goes undercover for the Swedish government in 1856 to investigate killings by one of the nomadic Sami people in Lapland. David W. Frank, Vienna in Violet (2015), a mystery in which Franz Schubert and Johann Michael Vogel become suspects when a notorious countess is murdered shortly after the performance of a song for which she has commissioned Schubert to compose the music.
Teresa Grant, Imperial Scandal Teresa Grant, His Spanish Bride Teresa Grant, The Paris Affair Teresa Grant, The Paris Plot Teresa Grant, The Berkeley Square Affair (2014), about an upper-class English couple who are drawn back into their former work as spies when a friend is robbed and nearly murdered; #6 in the Malcolm and Suzanne Rannoch mystery series.
Claude Izner, The Disappearance at Père-Lachaise (2010), about a French bookseller who investigates the disappearance of his one-time lover in the cemetery where her husband is buried; #2 in the Victor Legris mystery series. Claude Izner, The Montmartre Investigation (2010), about a French bookseller who, after a goatherd delivers a red shoe to his shop, begins investigating the murder of a barefoot woman in a red dress; #3 in the Victor Legris mystery series. Claude Izner, The Assassin in the Marais (2011), about a French bookseller who investigates after a goblet is stolen from his business partner, which appears to be connected to two murders, as anarchists spread terror in 1892 Paris; #4 in the Victor Legris mystery series. Claude Izner, In the Shadows of Paris (2012), about a Paris bookseller who investigates the murder of a bookbinder; #5 in the Victor Legris mystery series. Claude Izner, Strangled in Paris (2013), about a Paris bookseller who investigates the strangling death of a poor but well-dressed woman; #6 in the Victor Legris mystery series.
J. Sydney Jones, Requiem in Vienna (2010), about a Jewish lawyer's 1899 investigation into a series of fatal and potentially fatal "accidents" plaguing composer Gustav Mahler; #2 in the Karl Werthen series. Review or Author Interview J. Sydney Jones, The Silence (2011), about a Jewish lawyer's investigation into the suicide of a Vienna councilman, possibly connected to the disappearance of the eldest son of wealthy industrialist Karl Wittgenstein; #3 in the Karl Werthen series.
Marco Malvaldi, The Art of Killing Well
R.N. Morris, A Vengeful Longing, about a nineteenth century Russian police inspector investigating a case of poisoning during a hot St. Petersburg summer; #2 in the St. Petersburg mystery series. R.N. Morris A Razor Wrapped in Silk, about a nineteenth-century Russian police inspector investigating two crimes which may be connected: the kidnapping of a child factory worker and the murder of a beautiful society woman; #3 in the St. Petersburg mystery series. R.N. Morris The Cleansing Flames (2011), about a Russian police inspector investigating a group of intellectuals who favor revolution during the spring of 1872; #4 in the St. Petersburg mystery series.
Michael Pearce, Dmitri and the One-Legged Lady
Barbara Corrado Pope, The Blood of Lorraine (2010), about a young magistrate in southern France who, amid the tensions following the Dreyfus affair, must solve the murder of a small child that is being blamed on the Jews; #2 in the Bernard Martin series. Barbara Corrado Pope, The Missing Italian Girl (2013), about a young magistrate and his wife who try to find two immigrant girls from the Paris slums who have disappeared; #3 in the Bernard Martin series.
Bob van Laerhoven, Baudelaire’s Revenge (2014), about a Paris police commissioner and his assistant who must solve a series of murders in 1870 related to Baudelaire's poems. Andrew Williams, To Kill a Tsar (2010), about a Moscow physician whose work involves him in the investigation of an 1879 attempt to assassinate Tsar Alexander II.
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(2012), about a family living in the miners' rows of Ayrshire Scotland from the mid-1800s into the early 1900s; self-published.
(2005), about a duchess who takes a governess's illegitimate baby when her own baby dies in 1873, in order to secure an inheritance.
(2015), about a London woman in 1936 who goes to stay in an old home in Ireland, where she finds the memoir of a woman who lived in the house a century before.
(2009), a romantic Regency about a man who must marry the bride designated in his late father's will or lose his fortune. 
(2011), about a young woman raised as a foundling who becomes a companion to a woman who introduces her to society.
(1988, also published under author's pen name M.C. Beaton), a Regency romance about two spinster sisters left destitute after they fail to receive an inheritance, who open a school for refining unruly young women and arranging marriages for them, and their first charge; #1 in the School for Manners series. 
(1989, also published under author's pen name M.C. Beaton), a Regency romance about two spinster sisters who run a school for refining unruly young women and arranging marriages for them, and their charge who refuses all suitors until she meets a rake; #2 in the School for Manners series. 
(1989, also published under author's pen name M.C. Beaton), a Regency romance about two spinster sisters who run a school for refining unruly young women and arranging marriages for them, and their charge who refuses to marry after a man woos her and vanishes; #3 in the School for Manners series. 
(1989, also published under author's pen name M.C. Beaton), a Regency romance about two spinster sisters who run a school for refining unruly young women and arranging marriages for them, and their clumsy, freckled charge; #4 in the School for Manners series. 
(1990, also published under author's pen name M.C. Beaton), a Regency romance about two spinster sisters who run a school for refining unruly young women and arranging marriages for them, and their amazingly refined charge whose boorish parents are the reason she can't find a husband; #5 in the School for Manners series. 
(1990, also published under author's pen name M.C. Beaton), a Regency romance about two spinster sisters who run a school for refining unruly young women and arranging marriages for them, and their charge who seems more intent on finding matches for them than on her own prospects; #6 in the School for Manners series. 
(2013), about the daughter of British archaeologists who goes to Egypt in search of them after they disappear.
(2013), about a British soldier fighting in the Crimean War; #1 in the Jack Lark series.
(2005), about three young women struggling to make ends meet and find love in a poor copper-mining village; #1 in the Meryen Saga.
, historical romance about a woman living in obscurity in Dover after being ruined by a scandal, who makes a hazardous living by receiving smuggled goods, including roses.
(2013), about a kitchen maid who must leave her employment and goes in search of her family, who have disappeared.
(2014), about a gardener who collects specimens for a university lecturer in botany in Glasgow, and the botanist's betrayal of their friendship.
, (2012), about a medical student in Victorian Oxford who volunteers at a shelter for fallen women, and his friend who is studying for the priesthood.
(2013), about a governess who accepts a position at a mismanaged estate in deep mourning over the death of an heir.
(2012), about a young Englishman who emigrates to South Africa, fights in the Matabele War of 1893 and falls in love, then finds himself on the opposite side of the Boer War from a friend; self-published.
(2014), about a young widow whose gentleman lodgers are arrested for dressing in women's clothing; based on an actual 1870 scandal.
, (2012), historical romance about a marquis mistaken for a common man, who is recovering from an illness in England's Lake District in the home of a man whose daughter is an herbalist.
(2013), about an aspiring painter in Regency London who has a clandestine affair with his patron and becomes a murder suspect when his erotic drawings of the murdered man are discovered; self-published.
(2008), about ailing English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning and two women in Jamaica, a maidservant and a field worker.
(1982), about a young Englishwoman who travels to India as the paid companion of her cousin and falls in love with the ruler of an Indian kingdom on the eve of the Indian Mutiny.
(2003), about a man whose happy life turns to tragedy when the railroad crosses his land.
(2013), about an orphaned British girl born and raised in India and living with her aunt, who works as a spiritualist and is plotting to steal the Koh-i-Noor Diamond.
(2009), historical romance about a young woman who flees marriage to become a governess in Yorkshire.
(2013), about two circus performers in Victorian London, the Lion-Faced Girl and the Flayed Man.
(2004), about a devout young curate in the Welsh Marches in the 1860s who falls in love with a married woman. 
(1998), about an Irishwoman who loses her husband in the Potato Famine and is tricked into emigrating to Australia without her children.
(2009), a coming-of-age story about a young man from a rural Irish background who knows the uncle and aunt who raised him are not his real family, and his search for identity and love.
(2007), historical romance about a desperate nineteenth-century woman who accepts work as a governess for a barrister's son.
(2007), about a young man and woman in the Scottish Highlands who wish to marry but are separated when he goes to Canada to establish himself so he can gain her father's permission; first published under the pen name Katharine Swartz; #1 in the planned Emigrants trilogy.
(2007), about two young women who meet aboard ship while voyaging to Boston in 1832; first published under the pen name Katharine Swartz; #2 in the planned Emigrants trilogy.
, about a nineteenth century French family whose lives are changed when an English ship is wrecked nearby.
(2010), historical romance about an unwed mother who runs a granite quarry in 1840 Cornwall and appeals to a scarred, embittered former soldier for help when the disapproval of the local community threatens her business.
), about a well-educated young woman who marries into a dysfunctional family and struggles for independence; #3 in the Barforth trilogy.
(1986), about two young half-sisters, one legitimate, the other illegitimate, who fall in love with the same man in mid-nineteenth century Yorkshire.
(2015), about a young bride who joins her husband in Ceylon, where she finds an atmosphere full of secrets.
(2015), about a London family in 1880 after the death of their youngest daughter, and the turmoil that follows a tragic accident on the father's railway.
(1995), about a present-day Irishman who travels back in time to the Great Famine.
(2015), a graphic novel about three teenagers trying to survive during the Irish Potato Famine.
(1997), a Regency romance about an attractive woman in her mid-twenties who tries to persuade an eligible bachelor to marry her.
(2012), about a farm girl who in 1831 goes to work for the invalid wife of a vicar and then, as she learns to read and write, struggles to tell her story.
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(1944), about the friendship that develops after a girl who seems to have mysterious powers moves into a house that a neighbor boy has long admired.
(1946), about a dairy maid who chooses a life of financial security over a marriage for love that she fears would lead to a life of poverty.
), about a young doctor and a new serving girl at a disreputable coffee house.
(1970), romantic suspense set in Victorian England about a young woman struggling to escape from her dominating father's control.
(1972; also titled 
), about a young schoolteacher from Cornwall who goes to teach at a school run by a suspicious headmistress, where a favorite student dies and she begins to wonder whether she may have been responsible. 
.
), about a nineteenth-century family with four daughters, one of whom dabbles in the occult, bringing a mysterious evil to the house that cannot be banished until a century later; companion novel to Gad's Hall; available with Gad's Hall in a 
(1982), a family saga about a woman restored to her rightful family only to be betrayed by her father; #2 in the Rochford Trilogy.
(1994), about a family whose fortune is lost in the Wall Street Crash; #3 in the Rochford Trilogy.
(2001), about a Cornish lady's maid who loses her job when she impersonates the master's daughter and goes on to a career on the stage.
(2010), about two Irish boys, ages 12 and 11, who travel to the U.S. in 1846 and serve as drummer boys in the Mexican War; self-published.
(2007), about the widows in a fishing village on the Scottish coast after their community is devastated by a storm in 1881.
(2008), about the women of a fishing village on the Scottish coast and their continued efforts to rebuild their lives after a devastating storm; sequel to The Storm.
(2011), about a young woman who grew up in a Victorian workhouse but marries a wealthy gentleman, and the cruelty she experiences from her husband, his family and the staff of his mansion.
(2005), about a family which moves from the Lancashire coal fields in search of a better life in the North Wales slate quarries; #1 in the Widow Makers series.
(2011), about a family in which the father's efforts to start a union for quarry workers are opposed by his wealthy son; #2 in the Widow Makers series.
(2011), about a young woman sent to her family's old mansion in 1939 to recuperate from an illness, where she discovers clues to tragic events in 1896 that divided her family.
(2011), about a newly appointed British general who arrives in Afghanistan as a young Afghan prince sets out to remove the British from power during the Second Anglo-Afghan War in the 1870s. 
(2008), about a modern Canadian widow whose research uncovers the story of an ancestor in Victorian London who was also a widow; self-published.
in the U.K.), about novelists Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë and their family. 
(2010), a seafaring adventure about a British naval captain sent on an Atlantic mission in 1802.
(2009), about a boy from the London slums who is taken in by a disgraced physician.
(2010), about a young man from the London slums who becomes a soldier in the Crimean War.
(2010), about the London beauty who created a scandal by becoming the mistress of the French artist Jacques Tissot.
(2013), Regency romance about a young woman who weds a Manchester merchant in 1819 and discovers his business is putting weavers like her birth father out of work.
(2013), about a woman kidnapped and committed to a lunatic asylum in 1885.
(2010), about the Dartmoor Depot, originally built to hold 3,000 French prisoners, where 10,000 Americans from the War of 1812 were housed in terrible conditions even after the war ended; self-published.
(2009), about the farm boy who rescued Charles Dickens from child labor, operated a chess-playing machine, and played a role in developing the first public railway; self-published.
(2012), about British archaeologist Sir Henry C. Rawlinson and his work in the Middle East from 1849 to 1876; self-published.
(2013), historical romance about a shy bookworm who marries a composer who later inherits an earldom, creating social pressures that make her life difficult. 
(2012), about a young English woman forced into an unhappy marriage which results in scandal; self-published.
(2012), about a woman who disguises herself as a man to fight in the Boer War in the place of her homosexual cousin.
(2013), about an invalid in Victorian London who travels to Egypt with her mother and aunt on the eve of an Egyptian revolt.
(2008), about a troubled young Yorkshire woman who believes her mother hates her, and learns the reason for her coldness only after falling in love with a man who owns a mining business in South America.
(2009), historical romance about a young woman who sets out to win a stagecoach race in 1820.
, about a friendship between women of different social backgrounds in Victorian England.
(2009), about two sisters whose lives are disrupted after they are forced to sell their pub to make way for a railroad, when one ends up in a high-class brothel, the other in a boarding house where she is preyed on by the landlady's son.
(2006), about a police inspector in Victorian Edinburgh who feels compelled to investigate the murder of a prostitute in the midst of an election scandal; #1 in the Inspector McLevy mystery series.
(2013), about a Scottish physician who travels to Turin in the 1890s to study criminology, where he finds he must investigate a murder without his teacher's help; #1 in the City of Devils mystery series.
(1993), about a Victorian police inspector whose housekeeper is the genius behind his crime-solving success, when a doctor is found dead in his office; #1 in the Mrs. Jeffries series; first three mysteries available in an omnibus edition, 
(1993), about a Victorian police inspector whose housekeeper is the genius behind his crime-solving success, when the inspector finds a missing brooch on a dead woman; #2 in the Mrs. Jeffries series; first three mysteries available in an omnibus edition, 
(1993), about a Victorian police inspector whose housekeeper is the genius behind his crime-solving success, when a woman is murdered after her death is predicted at a seance; #3 in the Mrs. Jeffries series; first three mysteries available in an omnibus edition, 
(1994), about a Victorian police inspector whose housekeeper is the genius behind his crime-solving success, when a woman is murdered during a Jubilee Ball in the Queen's honor; #4 in the Mrs. Jeffries series.
(1994), about a Victorian police inspector whose housekeeper is the genius behind his crime-solving success, when a businessman accused of swindling his shareholders is murdered; #5 in the Mrs. Jeffries series.
(1995), about a Victorian police inspector whose housekeeper is the genius behind his crime-solving success, when a flower-seller is murdered; #6 in the Mrs. Jeffries series.
(1995), about a Victorian police inspector whose housekeeper is the genius behind his crime-solving success, when she must fill in for the inspector's cook and try to nab a killer as well; #7 in the Mrs. Jeffries series.
(1996), about a Victorian police inspector whose housekeeper is the genius behind his crime-solving success, when the inspector himself is suspected of murder; #8 in the Mrs. Jeffries series.
(1996), about a Victorian police inspector whose housekeeper is the genius behind his crime-solving success, when the inspector decides to investigate a case without her assistance; #9 in the Mrs. Jeffries series.
(1997), about a Victorian police inspector whose housekeeper is the genius behind his crime-solving success, when a theatre critic is drowned; #10 in the Mrs. Jeffries series.
(1997), about a Victorian police inspector whose housekeeper is the genius behind his crime-solving success, when an unlikeable woman is stabbed in the back; #11 in the Mrs. Jeffries series.
(1998), about a Victorian police inspector whose housekeeper is the genius behind his crime-solving success, when an artist's houseguest is murdered; #12 in the Mrs. Jeffries series.
(1998), about a Victorian police inspector whose housekeeper is the genius behind his crime-solving success, when a man is killed at a table set with two dessert plates; #13 in the Mrs. Jeffries series.
(1999), about a Victorian police inspector whose housekeeper is the genius behind his crime-solving success, when a visitor from Australia dies in a garden, the gate to which is securely locked; #14 in the Mrs. Jeffries series.
(2000), about a Victorian police inspector whose housekeeper is the genius behind his crime-solving success, when an eccentric heiress's bloodhound digs up a corpse; #15 in the Mrs. Jeffries series.
(2001), about a Victorian police inspector whose housekeeper is the genius behind his crime-solving success, when a shady businessman is murdered and his maid subsequently disappears; #16 in the Mrs. Jeffries series.
(2012), about a woman who manages a London brothel and turns the tables on a man she realizes is using her to steal a valuable jewel; #3 in the Madam of Espionage series.
(1950), about a woman who, to gain an inheritance, marries a convict scheduled to be hanged an hour later. 
(2015), about a former officer in the East India Company and a recluse who, having returned to London, are called in to investigate a series of murders of printers of smutty books in 1841; #2 in the Blake and Avery series.
(2012), a historical fantasy thriller about a woman trying to defeat a plot for world domination; #3 in the Glass Books of the Dream Eaters trilogy.
(1991), a tale inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle's detective stories and Alexandre Dumas's The Prisoner of Zenda in which Sherlock Holmes travels to Ruritania to get to the bottom of a political plot; #1 in the Sherlock Holmes Adventures series.
(1995), Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson must battle a plague of vampires and come face-to-face with Count Dracula himself; #2 in the Sherlock Holmes Adventures series.
(1998), Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson set out to prevent a fake medium from using an ancient Egyptian papyrus to make himself immortal; #3 in the Sherlock Holmes Adventures series.
(1999), Holmes and Watson pursue the Giant Rat of Sumatra; #4 in the Sherlock Holmes Adventures series.
(2011), a mystery short story featuring the detective in the Charles Lenox series investigating a strangling death on Great Andrews Street in London in 1865; #5 in the Charles Lenox mystery series.
(2012), about a Victorian gentleman who visits a small village near Bath where vandalism escalates into murder; #6 in the Charles Lenox mystery series.
(2007), about a timid and impoverished bachelor given the job of constable in his parish who must track down a killer who mutilates his victims; #1 in the Thomas Potts Victorian mystery series.
(2009), about a lawyer and his novelist wife who must investigate the death of a famous medium when she is suspected of his murder; #2 in the Tom Ansell series.
(2013), about a seventeen-year-old seamstress who investigates a series of murders of the dancers in the London music hall where she works.
(2015), about the seventeen-year-old heiress to a criminal empire, and her efforts to protect a child in desperate peril.
(1979), the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes investigates the Dreyfus Case.
(1984), a novel narrated by the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes as an aging man looking back on his life.
(1983), the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes's sidekick Dr. Watson recalls his own youthful travels and adventures.
(1987), as the notorious hound of the Baskervilles reappears, the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes investigates the theft of Oliver Cromwell's bones.
(1989), a police procedural set in Victorian England.
(2013), about a poor woman in Victorian London who witnesses a murder and the artist who tries to protect her after he realizes his portrait of her has exposed her to the killers.
(1979), a mystery based on Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, in which Holmes and his rival Professor Moriarty are forced to collaborate to prevent a plot against the monarchy.
(2006), a mystery based on Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, in which the evil Professor Moriarty boards an ocean liner in an attempt to steal a jeweled treasure being shipped from Calcutta to England; #4 in the Professor Moriarty mystery series.
(1974), a mystery that imagines what might have happened if Sherlock Holmes and Sigmund Freud had collaborated on an investigation.
(titled 
(2014), about a woman who escapes kidnapping by a killer known as "The Bridegroom" and, with the help of a man who has involved her in a scandal, sets out to stop him.
(2012), about a young spinster whose brother sends her to a town in northern England where she decides to find out the truth about a poor young woman who has disappeared; self-published.
(2008), a humorous novel about a reformed thief who, believing herself widowed, goes to live with relations of her husband, a minor English aristocrat who reappears unexpectedly and is murdered shortly thereafter. 
(2003), about a Scotland Yard inspector who pursues the puzzling case of a body fished out of the Thames on the eve of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897; #1 in the Inspector Sam Blackstone series.
(2004), about a Scotland Yard inspector investigating a series of kidnappings just before a visit to London by the maharajah of Chandrapore and his son; #2 in the Inspector Sam Blackstone series.
(2005), about a Scotland Yard inspector sent to Russia to investigate the theft of a rare Faberge egg; #3 in the Inspector Sam Blackstone series.
(2005), about a Scotland Yard inspector who must find an arsonist who seems intent on delivering a message with the fires he sets; #4 in the Inspector Sam Blackstone series.
(2010), about a Scotland Yard inspector who goes to visit an old army friend in response to a worried letter and finds he has just been killed in what seems to be a freak accident; #6 in the Inspector Sam Blackstone series.
in the U.S.), about a widow who writes best-selling novels under a male pen name and agrees to help a friend of a friend in love with an heiress due to inherit a pearl necklace with a shady history; #2 in the Bella Wallis mystery series.
(1990), a collection of mystery short stories featuring Sherlock Holmes; #1 in the author's Sherlock Holmes Collection series.
(1992), a collection of mystery short stories featuring Sherlock Holmes; #2 in the author's Sherlock Holmes Collection series.
(1993), a collection of mystery short stories featuring Sherlock Holmes; #3 in the author's Sherlock Holmes Collection series.
(1995), a fictional biography of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson; #4 in the author's Sherlock Holmes Collection series.
(1999), a collection of mystery short stories featuring Sherlock Holmes; #5 in the author's Sherlock Holmes Collection series.
(2004), a collection of mystery short stories featuring Sherlock Holmes; #6 in the author's Sherlock Holmes Collection series.
(2012), a collection of mystery short stories featuring Sherlock Holmes; #7 in the author's Sherlock Holmes Collection series.
(2015), a mystery in which Sherlock Homes comes out of retirement to solve the mystery of a shadowy figure he sees walking below the cliffs on the Sussex coast; #8 in the author's Sherlock Holmes Collection series.
(2012), about two apprentice photographers hired by a charlatan specializing in "spirit photography" who become involved in a murder investigation after they photograph women who become victims of a serial killer.
(2000), a sequel to Pride and Prejudice revolving around Lady Catherine de Bourgh.
(1995), about some of the minor characters in Emma
(1997), a sequel to Pride and Prejudice.
(2000), about the governess for Georgiana's children and the son of Elizabeth and Fitzwilliam Darcy; sequel to Desire and Duty.
(2009), a novel which incorporates Jane Austen's unfinished ten-chapter draft of a novel she called The Brothers; self-published.
(2008), a novel which incorporates Jane Austen's unfinished 18,000-word draft of a story she later abandoned; self-published.
(2008), a sequel to Jane Austen's Mansfield Park focusing on the story of Mary Crawford; self-published.
(2008), a sequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice in which Mary Bennet develops a husband-hunting plan for herself and Kitty based on the biblical Book of Ruth; self-published.
(2008), a sequel to Jane Austen's Persuasion centering on the widow Mrs. Clay; self-published.
(2012), about Jane Austen's character Lydia Wickham, now widowed.
, a sequel to Pride and Prejudice.
(1997), based on characters from Pride and Prejudice
(2008), a novel that imagines events in Jane Austen’s life.
(1997), about a minor character in Pride and Prejudice.
, a novel that explores what might have happened if a character had made a different choice at one point in the Pride and Prejudice story; #4 in the Pemberley Variations series.
, a sequel to Pride and Prejudice.
(2012 in the original French; first English edition 2014), about the Frenchman Alexander Yersin, who discovered the plague bacteria and developed a vaccine for it in the late nineteenth century, and his flight from Paris in 1940. 
(2015), a comedy of manners about a Berlin publisher who visits novelist George Eliot because his brother hopes to arrange a match between him and a young countess who is an admirer of Eliot.
in the U.K.), about the French artist Théodore Géricault and his painting of a shipwreck.
(titled Hungarian Rhapsody in the U.K.), a biographical novel about the Hungarian-born piano virtuoso and composer Franz Liszt. 
(2010), about a Jewish family in Vitebsk, Russia, which falls apart after most of the family emigrates to America, leaving one son behind, and the other children become completely assimilated and scatter after the mother dies; self-published.
(1962), a biographical novel about the French composer Claude Debussy.
(2014), historical romance about a young woman who escapes her sadistic fiancé and resists the charms of her rescuer, an aristocrat siding with the rebels during the 1848 Revolution in Germany. 
(2015), a family saga about a Jewish cattle dealer in Switzerland, the handsome cousin he takes into his home in 1871, and the generations that follow.
(2013), about a ballerina in nineteenth-century France who rescues a disfigured genius with amnesia; self-published.
(2012), a dual-time-period novel about writers and artists affected by the Dreyfus Affair in the late nineteenth century, and the effect of the the House Un-American Activities investigation on Hollywood in the 1950s; self-published.
(2013), about six mercenaries who enlist in the British Army and serve in Malta.
(1932; also titled Lucile Clery, a Woman of Intrigue; the author, Gabrielle Margaret Campbell Long, also used the pen name Marjorie Bowen), about a governess involved in a scandal after her employer's wife is murdered; based on the true story of Henriette Deluzy-Desportes.
(2005, titled Dancing with Kings in the U.K.), about Sophie Potocka, who was born the daughter of a poor Greek peasant, became the toast of Europe as a courtesan, and eventually married a wealthy Polish count.
(2009), a thriller that weaves together stories about characters in three time periods: the last years of artist Vincent Van Gogh; a German folklorist coerced by the Nazis into writing propaganda; and a present day art expert confronted with what may be a lost Van Gogh masterpiece.
(1948), about the French poet Charles Baudelaire.
(2009), about a Russian detective who infiltrates a secret society linked to a wave of suicides; #8 in the Erast Fandorin mystery series.
(2012), about a married couple who spy for the British in Brussels after Napoleon escapes from Elba; #2 in the Malcolm and Suzanne Rannoch mystery series.
(2012), about the courtship and marriage of a couple who spy for the British during the Peninsular War; a prequel and #3 in the Malcolm and Suzanne Rannoch mystery series.
(2013), about a married couple who spy for the British in post-Waterloo Paris; #4 in the Malcolm and Suzanne Rannoch mystery series.
(2014), about a married couple who spied for the British in Paris during the Napoleonic Wars, and are now the targets of threats as they await the birth of their second child; #5 in the Malcolm and Suzanne Rannoch mystery series.
(2014), about a celebrated Italian chef who must solve a mystery in order to save the life of a Tuscan aristocrat.