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One lucky winner can win their own historical mystery library featuring 15 fab books with fierce lady leads that will give you a serious case of girl power.
A STUDY IN SCARLET WOMEN by Sherry Thomas
An NPR Best Book of 2016
USA Today bestselling author Sherry Thomas turns the story of the renowned Sherlock Holmes upside down…
A CURIOUS BEGINNING by Deanna Raybourn
In her thrilling new series, Deanna Raybourn, the New York Times bestselling author of the Lady Julia Grey mysteries, returns once more to Victorian England… and introduces intrepid adventuress Veronica Speedwell.
THE PARIS SPY by Susan Elia MacNeal
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
American-born spy and code-breaker extraordinaire Maggie Hope secretly navigates Nazi-occupied France to find two brave women during the darkest days of World War II in the latest novel in this bestselling series.
THE MURDER OF MARY RUSSELL by Laurie R. King
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Laurie R. King’s Mary Russell–Sherlock Holmes series weaves rich historical detail and provocative themes with intriguing characters and enthralling suspense. Russell and Holmes have become one of modern literature’s most beloved teams. But does this adventure end it all?
HER ROYAL SPYNESS by Rhys Bowen
The New York Times bestselling author of the Molly Murphy and Constable Evan Evans mysteries turns her attentions to “a feisty new heroine to delight a legion of Anglophile readers.” (Jacqueline Winspear)
CITY OF LIES by Victoria Thompson
An exciting new series featuring woman-on-the-run Elizabeth Miles—from the beloved national bestselling author of the Gaslight Mysteries.
A MOST EXTRAORDINARY PURSUIT by Juliana Gray
Known for her original plots, deft characterization, and lyrical voice, Juliana Gray presents an extraordinary novel of an uncommon pursuit…
THRICE THE BRINDED CAT HATH MEW’D by Alan Bradley
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Hailed as “a combination of Eloise and Sherlock Holmes” by The Boston Globe, Flavia de Luce returns in a much anticipated new Christmas mystery from award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Alan Bradley.
THE ANATOMIST’S WIFE by Anna Lee Huber
Artistic sleuth Lady Kiera Darby uses her talent for the macabre to bring murderers to justice in nineteenth-century Scotland in this delightfully gothic first Lady Darby novel.
A GILDED GRAVE by Shelley Freydont
In 1895, the height of the Gilded Age, the social elite spend their summers in Newport, Rhode Island. Within the walls of their fabulous “cottages,” competition for superiority is ruthless…and so are the players.
A USEFUL WOMAN by Darcie Wilde
Inspired by the novels of Jane Austen, this new mystery series set in 19th-century London introduces the charming and resourceful Rosalind Thorne, a woman privy to the secrets of high society—including who among the ton is capable of murder…
BROOKLYN ON FIRE by Lawrence H. Levy
Brooklyn’s most witty and daring detective risks everything to solve a dangerous triple-murder case…
WHISPERS BEYOND THE VEIL by Jessica Estevao
First in a dazzling new historical mystery series featuring Ruby Proulx, a psychic with a questionable past who suddenly finds her future most uncertain…
MURDER ON ASTOR PLACE by Victoria Thompson
As a midwife in turn-of-the-century New York, Sarah Brandt has seen pain and joy. Now she will work for something more–a search for justice–in a case of murder involving one of New York’s richest families.
DEATH BELOW STAIRS by Jennifer Ashley
Victorian class lines are crossed when cook Kat Holloway is drawn into a murder that reaches all the way to the throne.