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What do readers say about A Study in Scarlet Women?
a female sherlock how the book progressed gender bending mystery the concept is funUSA Today bestselling author Sherry Thomas turns the story of the renowned Sherlock Holmes upside down in the first novel in this Victorian mystery series….
With her inquisitive mind, Charlotte Holmes has never felt comfortable with the demureness e... More details on A Study in Scarlet Women
It never failed to astonish Livia that, after having known Charlotte all her life, sometimes she was still surprised by her sister’s appearance. Especially at moments like these—well, there had never ...
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What do readers say about Medicus?
funny and clever an enjoyable historical mystery a mixed bag a good historical mystery**THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**
A serial killer is on the loose in Roman-occupied Britain, and Gaius Petreius Ruso is out to catch him... if he isn't killed first.
The Gods are not smiling on army doctor Gaius Petreius Ruso in his new posting in Br... More details on Medicus
SOMEONE HAD WASHED the mud off the body, but as Gaius Petreius Ruso unwrapped the sheet, there was still a distinct smell of river water. The assistant wrinkled his nose as he approached with the reco...
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What do readers say about Crocodile on the Sandbank?
cozy mystery series slightly old fashioned cute romantic comedy old-style scooby dooMeet Egyptologist Amelia Peabody in the first mystery in the Victorian-era set, New York Times bestselling sparkling series (Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review). If Indiana Jones were female, a wife, and a mother who lived in Victorian times,... More details on Crocodile on the Sandbank
(I am informed, by the self-appointed Critic who reads over my shoulder as I write, that I have already committed an error. If those seemingly simple English words do indeed imply that which I am told...
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What do readers say about Dissolution?
smooth and elegant perfect plot line a historical mystery wry and bitterFrom the bestselling author of Winter in Madrid and Dominion comes the exciting and elegantly written first novel in the Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery series
Dissolution is an utterly riveting portrayal of Tudor England. The year is 1537, and the c... More details on Dissolution
AS I PASSED DOWN Ludgate Hill, I noticed a stall brimming with apples and pears and, feeling hungry, dismounted to buy some. As I stood feeding an apple to Chancery, I noticed down a side street a cro...
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What do readers say about Mistress of the Art of Death?
unique and clear historical murder mystery medieval murder mystery nicely developed plotsThe national bestselling hit hailed by the New York Times as a "vibrant medieval mystery…[it] outdoes the competition."
In medieval Cambridge, England, Adelia, a female forensics expert, is summoned by King Henry II to investigate a series of grues... More details on Mistress of the Art of Death
They’re a pleasant interruption in the traffic of carts whose drivers and oxen are surly with fatigue from plowing and sowing. These people are well fed, noisy, exultant with the grace their journey h...
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What do readers say about Girl Waits with Gun?
smart and fast-paced cultural and societal history the storyline continually moved ebook comic novellaNATIONAL BESTSELLER. The first in the Kopps Sisters Novel Series, Girl Waits with Gun is an enthralling novel based on the forgotten true story of one of the nation's first female deputy sheriffs.
Constance Kopp doesn't quite fit the mold. She towers... More details on Girl Waits with Gun
OUR TROUBLES BEGAN in the summer of 1914, the year I turned thirty-five. The Archduke of Austria had just been assassinated, the Mexicans were revolting, and absolutely nothing was happening at our ho...
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What do readers say about A Quiet Life in the Country?
a netgalley book light on the plot cute cozy mystery a cozy mysteryLady Emily Hardcastle is an eccentric widow with a secret past. Florence Armstrong, her maid and confidante, is an expert in martial arts. The year is 1908 and they’ve just moved from London to the country, hoping for a quiet life.
But it is not long... More details on A Quiet Life in the Country
The driver of the faintly dilapidated cart handed me Lady Hardcastle’s Gladstone while she fished in her purse for her customarily generous tip. With an astonished ‘Thank you, m’lady’, he flicked his ...
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What do readers say about A Scandalous Deception?
m/f duke/spinster romance some kind of romance historical romance nothing too dark or intenseAs much as Beatrice Hyde-Clare relished the challenge of figuring out who murdered a fellow guest during a house party in the Lake District, she certainly does not consider herself an amateur investigator.
So when a London dandy falls dead at her fe... More details on A Scandalous Deception
Beatrice Hyde-Clare owed her change in status in her uncle’s household to a singular fiction invented to coax confidences out of an Incomparable during a weeklong house party at a country estate in th...
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What do readers say about Death at Wentwater Court?
an amiable, cosy mystery the interwar period classic british cozy it made me laughMore than twenty years ago, Carola Dunn introduced to the world the charming, vivacious and perspicacious Daisy Dalrymple and the tumultuous decade of the 1920s, in an England barely starting to recover from World War I and now undergoing rapid socia... More details on Death at Wentwater Court
‘He’ll come to a bad end, mark my words, and she won’t lift a finger to stop him. It’s the little ones I’m worried about.’ The stout lady heaved a sigh, her old-fashioned mantle, a hideous yellowish g...
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What do readers say about The Light Years?
a family saga rambling, realistic family saga a great family saga easy to read chronicleThe first novel of the Cazalet Chronicle, this masterpiece in the tradition of Upstairs, Downstairs takes us to the Cazalet household in 1930s England, when the coming war is only a distant cloud on the horizon. Elizabeth Howard paints an irresistibl... More details on The Light Years
The day began at five to seven when the alarm clock (given to Phyllis by her mother when she started service) went off and on and on and on until she quenched it. Edna, in the other creaking iron bed,...
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