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Unknown bones, untold secrets, and unsolved crimes from the distant past cast ominous shadows on the present in the dazzling new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen. Present day: Julia Hamill has made a horrifying discovery on the grounds of her new home in rural Massachusetts: a skull buried in the rocky soil–human, female, and, according to the trained eye of Boston medical examiner... (more)

Soul Catcher

by Michael C. White

Augustus Cain is a damaged man haunted by a terrible skill: the ability to track people who don't want to be found. Rosetta is a runaway slave who bears the scars, inside and out, of a life of servitude to a cruel and unforgiving master. Her flight is fueled by a passion and determination only a mother could feel, and she would rather die than let anyone drag her back to hell. In a dark, volatile time prior to the... (more)

Hell at the Breech: A Novel

by Tom Franklin

In 1897, an aspiring politician is mysteriously murdered in the rural area of Alabama known as Mitcham Beat. His outraged friends -- —mostly poor cotton farmers -- form a secret society, Hell-at-the-Breech, to punish the townspeople they believe responsible. The hooded members wage a bloody year-long campaign of terror that culminates in a massacre where the innocent suffer alongside the guilty. Caught in the... (more)

A Dangerous Fortune

by Ken Follett

In 1866, tragedy strikes at the exclusive Windfield School. A young student drowns in a mysterious accident involving a small circle of boys. The drowning and its aftermath initiates a spiraling circle of treachery that will span three decades and entwine many loves... From the exclusive men's club and brothels that cater to every dark desire of London's upper classes to the dazzling ballrooms and... (more)

The Paid Companion

by Amanda Quick

"Once again, the incomparable Quick has whipped up a delectable Regency romance" ( Booklist ) about an ice-cold business agreement that turns into something far more heated.

The Wyndham Legacy

by Catherine Coulter

The first novel in Coulter's acclaimed Legacy trilogy.

Letters from an Age of Reason

by Nora Hague

An eloquent debut novel set amid two historical hotbeds of racial tension, moral hypocrisy, and shifting sexual convention Miss Arabella Leeds, the high-spirited teenage daughter of a prominent New York family, and Aubrey "Brie" Paxton, the "high yellow" pampered house servant of wealthy French-American slave-holders, are destined to fall in love. They are each bound for London, where their chance meeting... (more)

The Cater Street Hangman

by Anne Perry

"An ingenious mystery and an excellent example of manners and caste systems of the Victorian era." THE CHATTANOOGA TIMES While the Ellison girls were out paying calls and drinking tea like proper Victorian ladies, a maid in their household was strangled to death. The quiet and young Inspector Pitt investigates the scene and finds no one above suspicion. As his intense questioning causes many a composed facade to... (more)

Callander Square

by Anne Perry

"Murder fans who prefer their crimes with a touch of class should heat some scones and nestle back for the afternoon." ATLANTA JOURNAL & CONSTITUTION Murders just didn't take place in fashionable Callander Square, so Inspector Pitt's well-bred wife Charlotte couldn't resist finding out why one had. Suddenly there she was, rattling the closets of the very rich, listening to backstair gossip, and unearthing... (more)

The Face of a Stranger (William Monk Novels (Paperback))

The Face of a Stranger (William Monk Novels (Paperback))

by Anne Perry

"Richly textured with the sights and sounds of London and its countryside...Solidly absorbing and Perry's best to date." THE KIRKUS REVIEWS His name, they tell him, is William Monk, and he is a London police detecive. But the accident that felled him has left him with only half a life; his memory and his entire past have vanished. As he tries to hide the truth, Monk returns to work and is assigned to investigate... (more)

Amelia Peabody: Book 1

Crocodile on the Sandbank

by Elizabeth Peters

Thirty-one-year-old Victorian gentlewoman Amelia Peabody has not only inherited her father's fortune, but she is also blessed with his strong will as well. Now she's headed for Cairo, accompanied by a girl with a tarnished past, to indulge her passion for Egyptology. Little did she know that murder and a homicidal mummy lay in wait for her.

The Secret History of the Pink Carnation

Pink Carnation: Book 1

The Secret History of the Pink Carnation

by Lauren Willig

Nothing ever goes right for Eloise. The day she wears her new suede boots, it rains. When the subway stops short, she's the one thrown into some stranger's lap. And she's had her share of misfortune in the way of love. So, after deciding that romantic heroes must be a thing of the past, Eloise is ready for a fresh start. Setting off for England, Eloise is determined to finish her dissertation on two spies,... (more)

Pink Carnation: Book 2

The Masque of the Black Tulip

by Lauren Willig

Harvard grad student Eloise Kelly achieved the academic coup of the century when she unmasked the spy who saved England from Napoleon. But now she has a million questions about the Pink Carnation's deadly French nemesis, the Black Tulip. And she's pretty sure that her handsome onagain, off-again crush, Colin Selwick, has the answers somewhere in his archives. But what she discovers in an old codebook is something... (more)

The Black Tower

by Louis Bayard

Vidocq. The name strikes terror in the Parisian underworld of 1818. As founder and chief of a newly created plainclothes police force, Vidocq has used his mastery of disguise and surveillance to capture some of Frances most notorious and elusive criminals. Now he is hot on the trail of a tantalizing mystery—the fate of the young dauphin Louis-Charles, son of Marie-Antoinette and King Louis XVI. Hector... (more)

CLAUS: A Christmas Incarnation, Volume One, The Child

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Tags: historical fiction - 1800s

The Bone Garden: A Novel

by Tess Gerritsen

Soul Catcher

by Michael C. White

Hell at the Breech: A Novel

by Tom Franklin

A Dangerous Fortune

by Ken Follett

The Paid Companion

by Amanda Quick

The Wyndham Legacy

by Catherine Coulter

Letters from an Age of Reason

by Nora Hague

The Cater Street Hangman

by Anne Perry

Callander Square

by Anne Perry

The Face of a Stranger (William Monk Novels (Paperback))

by Anne Perry

Crocodile on the Sandbank

by Elizabeth Peters

The Secret History of the Pink Carnation

by Lauren Willig

The Masque of the Black Tulip

by Lauren Willig

The Black Tower

by Louis Bayard

CLAUS: A Christmas Incarnation, Volume One, The Child

by C. John Coombes