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Published Nov 2017
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Published Jan 2016
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by Michelle Moran
Published Dec 2011
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by Michael Gregorio
Published Apr 2011
Read ReviewsDark, intelligent, and vividly written, A Visible Darkness continues a masterful series of historical mysteries that portray a past torn between nationalism and humanism, superstition and science.
by Peter Carey
Published Jan 2011
Read ReviewsFrom the two-time Booker Prizewinning author comes an irrepressibly funny new novel set in early nineteenth-century America.
by Rebecca Stott
Published May 2010
Read ReviewsThe Coral Thief, as riveting and beautifully rendered as Ghostwalk, Rebecca Stotts first novel, is a provocative and tantalizing mix of history, philosophy, and suspense. It conjures up vividly both the feats of Napoleon and the accomplishments of those working without fame or glory to change our ideas of who we are and the world in which we ...
by Claude Izner
Published Sep 2009
Read ReviewsMurder on the Eiffel Tower is a painstakingly researched but seemingly effortless evocation of 19th century Paris, and an exciting opening to a new series featuring second-hand bookseller and amateur detective Victor Legris.
by R. N. Morris
Published May 2009
Read ReviewsFollowing in the footsteps of the highly acclaimed novel The Gentle Axe, featuring the detective Porfiry Petrovich in another atmospheric and gripping slice of nineteenth-century Russia
by Boris Akunin
Published Mar 2004
Read ReviewsIn this thrilling mystery that brings nineteenth-century Russia to vivid life, Akunin has created one of the most eagerly anticipated novels in years.
by Anne Perry
Published Feb 2003
Read ReviewsAnother perilous case for Thomas Pitt. His enemy Charles Voissey is running for Parliament as a Tory, and the wife of his liberal opponent was present at a seance run by a not-so-foresightful clairvoyant: she was subsequently murdered.
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