Gentleman Jim (2020) Mimi Matthews (Somerset Stories #2) Set in England in 1817. Maggie and Nicholas have been friends despite their difference in station. But Maggie’s neighbor Fred despises Nicholas and so frames him for a crime to get him away from the girl he believes is his. Sir Roderick and Squire Honeywell had long […]
A Wizard’s Guide To Defensive Baking (2020) T. Kingfisher narrated by Patricia Santomasso You’re feeling really dry, I suggested to the bread. Really stale. Hard as a rock. Usually I have to be touching something in order to make it do anything really impressive, but for just going stale, as long as I can see […]
A Christmas Guide to Family and Murder (2026) Dianne Freeman (Countess of Harleigh Mystery #9) Set in England in 1900 Frances is getting ready to spend Christmas in London when George and the girls suggest they spend the holiday in Hadley Grange with George’s sister and her family, as there were suggestions there might be […]
An Affair for Aumont (2022) J.A. Rock & Lisa Henry (The Lords of Bucknall Club, #5) A principal officer didn’t pay his rent by preventing crime, but by punishing it. He thought, as he always did, of France. His deep love of her. His deep hatred of her. The gin didn’t help him untangle those […]
A Sanctuary for Soulden (2021) J.A. Rock & Lisa Henry (The Lords of Bucknall Club #4) Soulden, who smiled vacantly in public, not wishing to give anyone the impression there was anything between his ears but a faint and pleasant breeze, craved a midnight sky and solitude. Philip was still breathing, he noted with some […]
A Case for Christmas (2021) J.A. Rock & Lisa Henry (The Lords of Bucknall Club, #2) In 1783, the Marriage Act Amendment was introduced in England to allow marriages between same-sex couples. This was done to strengthen the law of primogeniture and to encourage childless unions in younger sons and daughters of the peerage, as […]
The Wonder Engine, Audio Book (2018) T. Kingfisher narrated by Khristine Hvam (Clocktaur War #2) No one tried to stop them from entering the city. The guards looked bored. “I expected it to be harder to get in,” murmured Caliban. “Why would it?” asked Slate. “They want you to come in and spend as much […]
Clockwork Boys, Audio Book (2017) T. Kingfisher narrated by Khristine Hvam (Clocktaur War Book 1) “Are you sure you wouldn’t like some nice murderers instead?” he asked plaintively. “Quite sure, thanks.” “Brenner? He’s got a heart of gold…cold, metallic, and made of money.” “I would give my life for yours. Your enemies are my enemies.” […]
The Antiquarian’s Object of Desire (2026) India Holton (Love’s Academic #3) Set in alternate England in 1890 Amelia Tarrant and Caleb Sterling have been best friends since boarding school–and all the schooling that followed as they eventually earned their doctorates and became professors at Oxford. But lady professors still aren’t entirely accepted, and Amelia and […]
Lady Odelia’s Secret, Audio Book (2022) Jane Steen narrated by Elizabeth Klett (Scott-De Quincy Mysteries #2) Set in Sussex, England in 1882 I felt Michael—who hated to touch, or be touched by, other people—flinch as I rested my fingertips as lightly as possible on his arm. “I enjoy reading about people who are real to […]
Murder at Castle Calvera (2026) Morgan Stang (The Lamplight Murder Mysteries #4) Isabeau Agarwal has received an invitation to a most exclusive gathering at Castle Calvera–despite the fact it might mean missing ringing in the new year at Lamplight. So Isabeau, Evie, and Penny pack up and head out to the castle no one has […]
The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels (2021) India Holton (Dangerous Damsels #1) Set in alternative Victorian England “I’m flattered. She has actually employed an assassin?” “Yes,” the man said in a dire tone. “And does this assassin have a name?” “Eduardo de Luca.” “Italian,” Cecilia said, disappointment withering each syllable. “You need to be a […]
Half a Soul (2022) Olivia Atwater (Regency Faerie Tales #1) When she was a child, Dora Ettings had half her soul stolen by a fairy. Since then, she’s been viewed as decidedly odd, and although her cousin loves her dearly, her aunt clearly views her as a burden. “She’ll drive away your suitors!” Auntie Frances […]
Of Claws and Fangs: Stories from the World of Jane Yellowrock and Soulwood, Audio Book (2022) Faith Hunter narrated by Khristine Hvam Candy from a Vampire #11.75 Make It Snappy #0.75 It’s Just a Date #9.3 Life’s a Bitch and Then You Die Black Friday Shopping How Occam Got His Name Shiloh and the Brick […]
Come Unto These Yellow Sands (2011) Josh Lanyon To seek out a new therapist, to admit that he still might need help, was too much like acknowledging failure. Swift had never thought of happiness as a weight before, but that’s what it felt like. Something solid and real to steady him, ground him. It would […]
Agents of Winter (2022) Ada Maria Soto (The Agency #2) “I’m sorry, which one is B-837?” “Romantic or sexual involvement with another agency employee or contractor.” “I… um…” Arthur felt his cheeks flush and didn’t know what to say. It had never crossed his mind to fill out the “Fucking Form” as it was referred […]
The Geographer’s Map to Romance (2025) India Holton (Love’s Academic #2) A year earlier, Elodie Hughes and Gabriel Tarrant entered into a marriage of convenience. Unfortunately, a week into the marriage everything went terribly wrong and the two have barely spoken since. Which is mildly problematic since they are both professors in the Geography department. […]
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, Audio Book (2009) Alan Bradley Narrated by Jayne Entwistle (Flavia de Luce #1) Set in England in 1950 I hated Mrs. Mullet’s seed biscuits the way Saint Paul hated sin. Perhaps even more so. I was nabbed. There was nothing else to do but burst into tears. […]
The Entanglement of Rival Wizards (2025) Sara Raasch (Magic and Romance #1) This is the book that precedes The Fake Divination Offense. I’d initially skipped it because although the world building sounded fascinating, I usually dislike enemies to lovers. Which this is. But much of it worked for my anyway, because it was academic rivals, […]
The Fake Divination Offense (2026) Sara Raasch (Magic and Romance #2) Orok Monroe just wants to celebrate the lawsuit he and his best friend Seb won against the “Camp” that tortured them, but almost none of his new teammates show up, so he’s left wondering if the Hellhounds feel about him the same way his […]
Til Death Do Us Bard (2025) Rose Black Logan and Pie have been blissfully married for six months. He hadn’t expected to retire – an uncommon outcome amongst adventurers. Logan had imagined his end in the form of slavering jaws in some gods-forsaken corner of nowhere. Now he had a cottage and a husband. But […]
[Never] Feed the Crows (2023) Jennifer Cody (Corvin’s Crows #1) It’s Amos’s second year on campus, and he has a great roommate and is doing well in his classes but hasn’t made many friends except for his roommate–and the crows. Honestly, I don’t even know how it happened, but one day I realized that I […]
Rift in the Soul (2024) Faith Hunter (Soulwood #6) Having read both Rift in the Soul and Final Heir now (and fairly recently after each other) my impression is that she just wanted to stop writing about Jane — and by extension any of the characters closely related to Jane, including Nell. In short, like […]
Tales from the Territory (2026) Travis Baldree (Legends & Lattes) Goblins & Greatcoats There has been a terrible murder. Is the goblin going to be able to solve the case? Is that the Gatewarden? A goblin?” stage-whispered the young warden. Zyll’s long, pointed ears caught the murmuration of uncomfortable shrugs that followed. She didn’t bother […]
Spells for the Dead, Audio Book (2020) Faith Hunter narrated by Khristine Hvam (Soulwood #5) For some reason, parts of this story really stuck with me, and I was surprised to realize this wasn’t a book I’d listened to repeatedly (one reading, one listen). “Which is why you’re down here with us,” T. Laine said […]
The Hopeless Romantic’s Guide to Enchantment: Twelve Magical Romantasy Tales (2026) edited by Paul Kane and Marie O’Regan ’Tis Pity He’s an Elf by Jen Williams Silver Dahlia, Golden King by Chloe Neill Fool in Love Ghoul in Hate by Greer Stothers The Brocade Prince by A. Y. Chao Double Trouble by Kelley Armstrong Unearned […]
Lady Helena Investigates, Audio Book (2018) Jane Steen narrated by Elizabeth Klett (Scott-De Quincy Mysteries #1) 1881, Sussex A recurring theme of my childhood memories was drawing or reading quietly while Michael embarked on his fifth or sixth tantrum of the day. And yet I, a year and a half older than Michael, was always […]
Peg and Rose Stir Up Trouble (2023) Laurien Berenson (Senior Sleuths #2) It’s been a couple months since Peg and Rose have mended their relationship, and so Rose has decided the best way to maintain their budding friendship is–to get Peg on a dating site so she can find love and companionship again. The first […]
Peg and Rose Solve a Murder Laurien Berenson (2022) (Senior Sleuths #1) Peg and Rose haven’t really spoken for decades. Animosity had sizzled between the two women since Peg became engaged to her beloved, and now dearly departed husband, Max, more than four decades earlier. But Rose has decided it’s time to set aside past […]
Guilt and Ginataan (2024) Mia P. Manansala (Tita Rosie’s Kitchen Mystery #5) There is so much to love about this series: food, queer rep, smart female character, mental health rep, and few white characters. Yet, the mysteries always fall a little flat for me. I don’t know why. (In the earlier books it was because […]
Something Extraordinary (2024) Alexis Hall (Something Fabulous #3) Set in England in ~1814 I’ll be honest–I put off reading this because in earlier books I found Bella annoying and frustrating and I didn’t want to spend time with her. But she was a little better in book two, as was Horley Comewithers, so I moved […]
The Ghost and Mrs. Holloway (2026) Jennifer Ashley (Below Stairs Mystery #9.5) Set in London in 1884 Set a few months after Murder in Blackfriars, Kat is working hard both to earn the money work for herself and to distract herself from Grace being so far away. So she isn’t opposed to looking into a […]
Best Laid Plans (2021) Roan Parrish (Garnet Run #2) He looked at the situation and chose to acknowledge all the dimensions of it. Dimensions (as he thought of them) weren’t positive or negative. They were simply the truth of how he felt about things. “Jesus Christ,” he said, and scrubbed hands over his face. “Guess […]
Better Than People (2020) Roan Parrish (Garnet Run, #1) Every day had dilated to a month, every night to a year, and Jack found himself wishing for anything—anything—to break the monotony of lying on the couch all day long and in bed all night. This part was always the hardest. The moment when he could […]
Two Rogues Make a Right (2020) Cat Sebastian (Seducing the Sedgwicks #3) Set in Sussex, England in 1818 Will had four shillings and a bottle of laudanum, and barely enough self-control not to drink it himself. It had been two years since he showed the first signs of consumption, which he had acquired in circumstances […]
Circle of the Moon, Audio Book (2019) Faith Hunter narrated by Khristine Hvam (Soulwood #4) The farm had seemingly figured out that if I was a tree, there would be no one to work the soil and it liked me around. Now, as I worked, the leaves on my neck and hands broke off and […]
Mirage City (2025) Lev Ac Rosen (Evander Mills #4) Set in San Francisco in 1953 It’s been a year since Andy began working above the Ruby. I’ve been here over a year now, the matchmaking business, pairing up queer people in heterosexual-looking relationships to appease work or family, and crafting stories for them: how they […]
Murder by Lamplight (2024) Patrice McDonough (Dr. Julia Lewis #1) Set in London in 1866. Julia Lewis had to travel overseas to manage it, but she is now her grandfather’s partner in his medical practice. Women who had foreign degrees or had commenced their studies by 1858 had to be admitted to the medical roll, […]
Dead in the Shop (2018) Dahlia Donovan (Grasmere Cottage #3) “I’d let it all fade away into history if I had my way.” “Our name? Our legacy?” Her lack of insight blew Valor’s mind. How did she not see their family had offered zero value to the world? Their name meant nothing; they had no […]
Dead in the Pond (2018) Dahlia Donovan (Grasmere Cottage #2) Bishan found it very difficult to force himself to do anything without understanding the reason. “Would you rather stay?” Yes. “Yes, but if I do it’ll make leaving harder the next time.” Bishan enjoyed photography because it put distance between the world and himself. They […]
Dead in the Garden (2018) Dahlia Donovan (Grasmere Cottage #1) (T)hey’d always assumed Bishan’s traditionalist parents would be the disapproving ones. It seemed being gay and dating an Anglo-Indian had been one step too far for the son of an earl. … (H)is father, mother, and elder brother hadn’t spoken to him in over a […]
Flame in the Dark, Audio Book (2017) Faith Hunter narrated by Khristine Hvam (Soulwood #3) Every branch of law enforcement wanted this case except the sheriff, who had too much political acumen to want anything to do with a United States senator, three rich dead VIPs, multiple wounded, and vampires. “Thank you for joining us, […]
The Railway Conspiracy (2025) SJ Rozan & John Shen Yen Nee (Dee & Lao #2) Set in London in 1924 Dee has returned to London and once again drawn Lao, Sergeant Hoong and Jimmy Fingers together. He peered over his glass. “Are you quite all right, Lao? I haven’t been here seventy-two hours and already […]
Paladin’s Faith (2021) T. Kingfisher (The Saint of Steel #4) Apparently one of the problems they had solved was bribery. You couldn’t bribe a Rat-priest. (Well, you probably could, but only by offering to donate the money to the poor.) Stabbing a man in the kidneys was a remarkably good way to make him think […]
Curse on the Land, Audio Book (2016) Faith Hunter narrated by Khristine Hvam (Soulwood #2) “Nellie, you’un got big brass ones, that’s all I got to say.” I had learned what the saying meant at Spook School, and thought it was silly, as testicles were small, easy to remove, and easily injured. mortal sins were […]
Paladin’s Hope (2021) T. Kingfisher (The Saint of Steel #3) “Anything’s possible,” said Piper, in a tone that hopefully conveyed, “Not a chance in hell.” His thoughts were so jumbled that he hardly knew what to pray for, so he settled on a general, Do you see this whole mess, gods? Please just fix it! […]
Paladin’s Strength (2021) T. Kingfisher (The Saint of Steel #2) Istvhan waved to them, thinking what a disgusting group of people they must be, to enjoy watching beasts and men be torn to shreds by the corpses of their countrymen. You know, in some countries, they just have oiled naked men wrestle each other and […]
Paladin’s Grace (2020) T. Kingfisher (The Saint of Steel #1) After finishing The Vampire Gideon’s Suicide Hotline and Halfway House for Orphaned Girls I needed something to made my brain feel better, and since after reading Daggerbound I wanted to read more Kingfisher, this seems the perfect choice. He and Istvhan had exhausted the weapon […]
Blood of the Earth, Audio Book (2016) Faith Hunter narrated by Khristine Hvam (Soulwood #1) I set the shotgun on the table and got out three pottery mugs. I wasn’t using John’s maw-maw’s good china for outsiders whom I might have to shoot later. That seemed deceitful. ‘The end justifies the means.’ Niccolò Machiavelli espoused […]
Daggerbound (2026) T. Kingfisher (Swordheart #2) Not a decade, but long enough for the impatient, we have the follow-up to Swordheart! This is set about 7 years after the end of the Clocktaur War series, and a couple of years after Swordheart but before The Saint of Steel series. Learned Edmund (from the Clocktaur War […]