The Spellmaster of Tutting-on-Cress (2024) Sarah Wallace (Meddle & Mend #5) Set in Tutting-on-Cress in 1818 Gerry has been hoping to fall in love the way two of her brothers did, but has never felt the way she thought falling in love should be. So she figures she’ll be content running her shop and living […]
Dear Bartleby (2023) Sarah Wallace (Meddle & Mend #4) Seb, youngest sibling of Gavin and Gerry has been sent down for Oxford for one too many pranks. Father sat me down in his study and told me I need to learn to be a proper gentleman. Ominous start. He listed out all manner of qualities […]
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 […]
The Education of Pip (2023) Sarah Wallace (Meddle & Mend #3) Set in England in ~1816 This story overlaps with One Good Turn and we get Pip’s story. Please check the trigger warnings, as Pip has been abused by the man he thought to be his lover, and has been forced into prostitution. Pip concluded […]
One Good Turn (2022) Sarah Wallace (Meddle & Mend #2) Set in London ~1816 Nell Birks doesn’t want the life she grew into. As an orphan plucked off the streets she was glad to have food to eat and a safe place to sleep, but she wants to learn magic rather than continue life as […]
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 […]
The Bell in the Fog (2023) Lev Ac Rosen (Evander Mills #2) Set in San Francisco in ~1952 The story takes place several months after the events of Lavender House. Evander Mills is trying to make his way as a queer private detective, but as he was once a copy, not many people seem to […]
Letters to Half Moon Street (2022) Sarah Wallace (Meddle & Mend #1) Set in alternate London in 1815 I enjoyed the Fae & Human Relations series Sarah Wallace co-wrote with S.O. Callahan, so I picked up this book awhile ago, but hadn’t gotten around to reading it. I’m sorry I waited, as her influence for […]
A Murderous Business (2025) Cathy Pegau (Harriman & Mancini #1) Set in NYC in 1912 Margot Harriman has taken over her family business at B&H Foods after her father’s death, but it’s 1912 and people don’t believe a woman can truly run a company. Even her father’s second in command–a man who she has know […]
The Murder of Mr. Ma, Audio Book (2024) John Shen Yen Nee, S.J. Rozan narrated by Daniel York Loh (Dee & Lao #1) London, 1924 Dee stayed in the shadows of the horse stall for some minutes, until, as he told me later, the visions from the trenches had begun to fade. For this was […]
A Ghost Hunter’s Guide to Catching a Killer (2026) F. H. Petford Set in Cornwall, England in 1915 Alma and Alan are excited to plan their wedding, but have things to work out, such as where they will get married (Alan wants a church wedding) and where they will live (Alma wants to live at […]
Lavender House (2022) Lev AC Rosen (Evander Mills #1) Set in San Francisco in 1952 Evan Mills has been dismissed from the SF police department after being caught in a raid at a queer club. Caught–quite literally–with his pants down. Now with no job, and no home (he was thrown out). Even he wouldn’t meet […]
The Missing Page (2022) Cat Sebastian (Page & Sommers #2) Set in Cornwall in 1947 “The letter from the solicitor said the uncle’s will stipulated that all legatees attend the reading at the family home in Cornwall or forfeit their bequest.” Leo’s eyebrows shot straight up. “Was it his uncle’s dying wish to reenact a […]
Murder in Blackfriars (2026) Jennifer Ashley (Below Stairs Mystery #9) Set in London in 1884 This series seems like its winding up. Daniel is disentangled from Mr. Monaghan and Kat and Daniel are settled into a relationship. Daniel and I had come to an agreement to wed, though we were waiting to iron out the […]
Final Heir, Audio Book (2022) Faith Hunter narrated by Khristine Hvam (Jane Yellowrock #15) The final Jane Yellowrock book. Well, I finished it. And on audio no less. Did I enjoy it? I don’t really think I did. Most of the major deaths occurred in the last book (and there were some shockers there). There […]
Hither, Page (2019) Cat Sebastian (Page & Sommers #1) Set in England in 1946 Even Edith Pickering and Cora Delacourt, who had lived with Mrs. Hoggett, didn’t seem terribly moved, but then again they had a good deal of practice in losing people, having lived through the last time the world decided to kill off […]
Destined To Last (2010) Alissa Johnson (The Providence Series #4) Set in England in 1815 He glanced at her. “Is it necessary for you to practice?” “In a general sense you mean?” she guessed, then continued when he nodded. “Of course. How could I improve otherwise?” “I hadn’t thought it possible for you to improve.” […]
McAlistair’s Fortune (2009) Alissa Johnson (Providence #3) The forest would be his home still if he’d had his say in the matter, but William Fletcher, his one-time employer and current thorn in his side, had been steadily pushing him back into the world over the past few months. “Evie has, with my permission, been quietly […]
Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories: Volumes I and II (1914) Arthur Conan Doyle Set in England from 1881 to 1914 A Study In Scarlet 1881 “How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?” Stamford, Mr. Lestrade, Enoch J. Drebber, […]
Tempting Fate (2009) Alissa Johnson (Providence #2) Set in England in 1813 Whit considered getting foxed with the idea that if he was going to be just as useless as his father, he might as well be just as drunk to boot. But he didn’t pour the drink. He just stood at the sideboard in […]
As Luck Would Have It (2008) Alissa Johnson (Providence #1) Set in London in 1811 She pushed herself up with her elbows before anyone could stop her. The quick movement was a mistake. She knew it would be. Really, anyone would think this was the first time she had been knocked unconscious. “I said stop […]
A Ghost Hunter’s Guide to Solving a Murder (2024) F. H. Petford Set in Cornwall, England in 1915 First, this is not a cozy supernatural mystery. Despite the title and despite the cover. Which is why I started this book and then dropped it for several months, since it wasn’t what I was expecting (or […]
The Muse of Maiden Lane (2024) Mimi Matthews (Belles of London #4) Hampshire, Derbyshire & London, England in 1863 This is the final book in the Belles of London series. Stella wants to marry to escape her older brother, but as she turned completely gray by 16, she doesn’t see how she’s going to manage […]
Loud and Clear (2016) Aidan Wayne So Caleb was set for a designated driver for every Tuesday night until this stupid drink-night thing got canceled. … Which was another reason why he actually had to attend. For all the drinking, until people got too shit-faced, they actually talked about work. Missing this was the equivalent […]
Dead in the Frame (2025) Stephen Spotswood (Pentecost and Parker #5) Set in NYC in 1947 This book picks up right where the previous left off–with Lillian Pentecost being arrested for murder. The bylines changed and the adjectives got shuffled, but the tone across the board was: She probably did it. It was almost as […]