I have been over the moon about the titles I have been spotting
lately. Who am I kidding, I’m always over the moon when it comes to books. One
of my greatest frustrations as an avid reader is finding more time in the day
to read. I know many of you can relate. So why am I tempting you all with great
looking book?! Because I can’t help myself and I am so excited about theses, I
had to share!
Here are just a few of the books I have an eye on hundreds!
Maybe thousands. But who’s counting? All these titles are available to purchase
on Amazon. I hope you enjoy!
London, 1885. Three years before the Whitechapel killings,
London is a city of fog and darkness. A severed head is dredged from the
Thames; ten miles away, a woman's body is discovered on Edgeware Road. The
famed American detective William Pinkerton is summoned by Scotland Yard to
investigate. The dead woman fits the description of a grifter Pinkerton had
been pursuing for a long time--someone he believed would lead him to a man he
has been hunting since his father's death.
Edward Shade is an industrialist without a past, a fabled
con, a thief of other men's futures--he seems a ghost, a man of smoke. The
obsessive hunt for him that began in the last days of the Civil War becomes
Pinkerton's inheritance. What follows is an epic journey of secrets, deceit,
and betrayals. Above all, it is the story of the most unlikely of bonds:
between Pinkerton, the greatest detective of his age, and Shade, the one
criminal he cannot outwit.
Steven Price's By Gaslight is a riveting, atmospheric
portrait of a man on the brink. Moving from the diamond mines of South Africa
to the fog-enshrouded streets of Victorian London, the novel is a journey into
a cityscape of grief, trust, and its breaking, where what we share can bind us
even against our better selves.
In the tradition of The Paris Wife and Mrs. Poe, The Other
Einstein offers us a window into a brilliant, fascinating woman whose light was
lost in Einstein's enormous shadow. tTis is the story of Einstein's wife, a
brilliant physicist in her own right, whose contribution to the special theory
of relativity is hotly debated and may have been inspired by her own profound
and very personal insight.
Mitza Maric has always been a little different from other
girls. Most twenty-year-olds are wives by now, not studying physics at an elite
Zurich university with only male students trying to outdo her clever
calculations. But Mitza is smart enough to know that, for her, math is an
easier path than marriage. And then fellow student Albert Einstein takes an
interest in her, and the world turns sideways. Theirs becomes a partnership of
the mind and of the heart, but there might not be room for more than one genius
in a marriage.
After her father dies, March Middleton has to move to London
to live with her guardian, Sidney Grice, the country’s most famous private
detective.
It is 1882 and London is at its murkiest yet most vibrant,
wealthiest yet most poverty-stricken. No sooner does March arrive than a case
presents itself: a young woman has been brutally murdered, and her husband is
the only suspect. The victim’s mother is convinced of her son-in-law’s
innocence, and March is so touched by her pleas she offers to cover Sidney’s
fee herself.
The investigations lead the pair to the darkest alleys of
the East End: every twist leads Sidney Grice to think his client is guilty; but
March is convinced that he is innocent. Around them London reeks with the
stench of poverty and gossip, the case threatens to boil over into civil unrest
and Sidney Grice finds his reputation is not the only thing in mortal danger.
Political unrest permeates York at the cusp of the fifteenth
century, as warring factions take sides on who should be the rightful
king--Richard II or his estranged, powerful cousin in exile, Henry Bolingbroke.
Independent minded twenty-year-old Kate Clifford is struggling to dig out from
beneath the debt left by her late husband. Determined to find a way to be
secure in her own wealth and establish her independence in a male dominated
society, Kate turns one of her properties near the minster into a guest house
and sets up a business. In a dance of power, she also quietly rents the
discreet bedchambers to the wealthy, powerful merchants of York for nights with
their mistresses.
But the brutal murder of a mysterious guest and the
disappearance of his companion for the evening threatens all that Kate has
built. Before others in town hear word of a looming scandal, she must call upon
all of her hard-won survival skills to save herself from ruin.
In pre-war Prague, the dreams of two young lovers are shattered when they are separated by the Nazi invasion. Then, decades later, thousands of miles away in New York, there's an inescapable glance of recognition between two strangers...
Providence is giving Lenka and Josef one more chance. From the glamorous ease of life in Prague before the Occupation, to the horrors of Nazi Europe, The Lost Wife explores the power of first love, the resilience of the human spirit- and the strength of memory.
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