Forthcoming Historical Fiction for 2012

This list of adult historical fiction titles is based on publishers’ catalogs, publisher home pages, Publishers Weekly forecasts, Amazon, and information supplied by authors.  Titles and dates are subject to change. We list mainstream and small press titles set in the 1960s and earlier.  Compiled by Sarah Johnson (US) and Sarah Cuthbertson (UK).

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January 2012

Ellis Avery, The Last Nude, Riverhead (a young American model and art deco
painter Tamara de Lempicka in the art world of 1927 Paris)

Anne Clinard Barnhill, At the Mercy of the Queen, St. Martin's Griffin
(story of Madge Shelton, cousin of Anne Boleyn)

Nancy Bilyeau, The Crown, Touchstone (in 16th-c England, the adventures of an aristocratic young novice who must find a legendary crown)

Christian Cameron, God of War, Orion (story of Alexander the Great)

Cassandra Clark, A Parliament of Spies, Minotaur (Abbess Hildegard mystery
set in 14th-c England)

Bernard Cornwell, Death of Kings, Harper (6th volume of Saxon Tales)  

Ellie Dean, Far From Home, Arrow (second in WWII boarding house saga series

Carola Dunn, Gone West, Minotaur (Daisy Dalrymple mystery set in 1920s England) 

Leah Fleming, The Captain’s Daughter, Simon & Schuster (a meeting on the Titanic changes two women’s lives forever)

Genevieve Graham, Under the Same Sky, Berkley (historical romance set in 18th-c Scotland and early America)

Susanna Gregory, The Piccadilly Plot, Sphere (latest Thomas Chaloner mystery set in Restoration London)

Tessa Harris, The Anatomist's Apprentice, Kensington (detective Dr. Thomas
Silkstone in 18th-century Oxfordshire)

Beth Hoffman, Saving Cee Cee Honeycutt, Little, Brown (eccentric aunt comes to the rescue of 12-year-old orphan in Georgia, USA in 1951)

Simonetta Agnello Hornby, The Nun, Europa (a young woman's love and spiritual fortitude, set in 1869 Italy)

M K Hume, Prophecy: Death of an Empire, Headline (second in series about Merlin)

Conn Iggulden, Conqueror, Bantam (historical adventure novel about Kublai
Khan)

Eloisa James, This Duke is Mine, Piatkus (Regency romance)

Janette Jenkins, Little Bones, Chatto & Windus (adventures of crippled Jane, a doctor’s assistant in the seedier parts of 1899 London)

Duncan Jepson, All the Flowers in Shanghai, Morrow (sweeping debut novel set in 1930s Shanghai)

Wendy Jones, The Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price, Purveyor of Superior Funerals, Corsair (in a 1920s Welsh village Wilfred proposes to Grace then falls in love with another girl & in the ensuing tangle a secret revealed changes everything)

Ben Kane, Spartacus: The Gladiator, Preface (first in series about the Spartacus slave revolt in 1stC BC Rome)

Raymond Khoury, The Devil’s Elixir, Orion (thriller set in 1800 Mexico & present day)

Vilmos Kondor, Budapest Noir, Harper (crime novel set in 1936 Budapest)

Freda Lightfoot, The Queen and the Courtesan, Severn House (Henriette
d’Entragues, mistress of Henry IV of France)

Robert Lyndon, Hawk Quest, Sphere (1072: a race-against-time quest to rescue a Norman knight captured by Turks takes a Frankish warrior to Greenland, Russia & Constantinople)

Kathleen O'Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear, The Broken Land, Tor (3rd book of
the Longhouse quartet set in prehistoric America)

Rachel Hore, A Place of Secrets, Holt (multi-period gothic saga set now and
amid the world of 18th-century science)

Dewey Lambdin, Reefs and Shoals, St. Martin's (latest Alan Lewrie naval
adventure, set in 1805)

Michele Lang, Dark Victory, Tor (werewolves and demons in Nazi Germany,
sequel to Lady Lazarus)

Sarah McCoy, The Baker's Daughter, Crown (a multi-period novel about wartime choices and the redemptive power of love; literary)

Alison McQueen, The Secret Children, Orion (two Anglo-Indian sisters seek cultural belonging in WWII & partition India)

Terence Morgan, The Shadow Prince, Macmillan (story of Perkin Warbeck)

Susan Sherman, The Little Russian, Counterpoint (a young Jewish mother
struggles for survival in early 20th-century Russia)

Tom Rob Smith, Agent 6, Grand Central (in 1965, a former Soviet secret
police agent comes to the US to investigate a crime against his family)

Gillian Slovo, An Honourable Man, Virago (moral dilemmas of a young doctor in the expedition to rescue Gen. Gordon in the Siege of Khartoum, 1884)

Natasha Solomons, The House at Tyneford, Plume (WWII story of an
upstairs-downstairs romance in an English country house)

Eva Stachniak, The Winter Palace, Bantam US & Doubleday UK (novel of Catherine the Great, seen through the eyes of her servant girl & spy)

John Stack, Armada, HarperCollins (Spanish Armada novel)

Charles Todd, The Confession, Morrow (Ian Rutledge post-WWI mystery in which he solves a case that leads far back into the past)

Barry Unsworth, The Quality of Mercy, Talese (sequel to Sacred Hunger, clash
between haves and have-nots in eighteenth-century England)

Guy Vanderhaeghe, A Good Man, Atlantic Monthly (literary western set in the late 19th c; personal and historic revenge, and an unlikely love affair)

Kaki Warner, Colorado Dawn, Berkley (romantic novel of a new bride in the Old West)

John Wilcox, The War of the Dragon Lady, Allison & Busby (latest Simon Fonthill army scout adventure, set in 1900 in China during the Boxer Rebellion)

Kate Williams, The Pleasures of Man, Michael Joseph (Gothic murder mystery set in 1840s Spitalfields)

Geling Yan, The Flowers of War, Harvill Secker (American missionary shelters a group of schoolgirls, prostitutes & wounded Chinese soldiers during the Nanking Massacre of 1937, as the Japanese invade the city)

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February 2012

Kate Alcott, The Dressmaker, Doubleday (a spirited young seamstress survives
the Titanic only to find herself deeply torn between two men)

Ramona Ausubel, No One Is Here Except All of Us, Riverhead (novel set in a
remote Jewish village in Romania as WWII hits)

Charlotte Betts, The Apothecary’s Daughter, Piatkus (girl starts a new life in Restoration London before the Great Plague and Fire)

Nancy Bilyeau, The Crown, Orion (mystery featuring novice nun in 1537 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries)

Christine Blevins, The Turning of Anne Merrick, Berkley (romantic historical novel set during the fight for America's independence) 

Sam Bourne, Pantheon, HarperCollins (1940: British don discovers a shocking plot at Yale whilst trying to find his missing wife and son)

Frances Brody, Dying in the Wool, Minotaur (Kate Shackleton mystery set in 1920s Yorkshire, 1st in series)

Stacia M. Brown, Accidents of Providence, HMH; UK title The Glovemaker, Arrow (Rachel, an unmarried glove-maker, is arrested for killing her child during the English Civil War)

Milton Burton, The Devil's Odds, Minotaur (mystery set in 1940s Texas, featuring a Texas Ranger and the New Orleans Mafia) 

Jennifer Chiaverini, Sonoma Rose, Dutton (a Prohibition-era saga set on a
Southern California rye farm)

Cassandra Clark, A Parliament of Spies, Allison & Busby (latest in medieval crime series: Abbess Hildegard of Mieux investigates a murder which may be part of a plot to depose Richard II)

Colleen Coble, Blue Moon Promise, Thomas Nelson (a proxy marriage in 19th-c
Wichita, Texas)

Katy Darby, The Whore’s Asylum, Fig Tree (Gothic drama, romance & intrigue set in 1887 in Oxford)

J.D. Davies, The Mountain of Gold, HMH (nautical adventure set along the
African coast in the 17th century)

Tatiana de Rosnay, The House I Loved, St. Martin's (one woman resists the
destruction of her family home, set in Belle Epoque Paris)

Frank Delaney, The Last Storyteller, Random House (saga of mid-20th century
Ireland, 3rd in series)

Friedrich Christian Delius, Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman, FSG
(psychological novel about a German woman in WWII-era Rome)

Margaret Dickinson, Jenny’s War, Macmillan (saga of a young girl evacuated from the East End to Derbyshire during WWII)

Helen Dunmore, The Greatcoat, Hammer (ghost story set 1954, as a GP’s wife newly moved to Yorkshire puts on an RAF greatcoat she finds in a cupboard and has visions of a young airman)

Carola Dunn, Gone West, Minotaur US & Robinson UK (Daisy Dalrymple mystery set in 1926 England)

Jeremy Duns, The Moscow Option, Simon & Schuster (double-agent spy thriller set in Moscow, 1969)

Sam Eastland, Siberian Red, Faber / US title Archive 17, Bantam (1939: Insp Pekkala is sent by Stalin to investigate the murder of a Gulag prisoner who claimed to know the location of the Tsar’s missing treasure)

Esi Edugyan, Half-Blood Blues, Picador (mysterious disappearance of a black jazz musician in pre-WWII Berlin)

Rosslyn Elliott, Sweeter than Birdsong, Thomas Nelson (inspirational fiction
set along the Underground Railroad in 19th-c Ohio, based on historical
characters)

Sherry Lynn Ferguson, Merely A Mister, Avalon (Regency aristocrat finds intrigue and romance in the Lake District)

Anna Funder, All That I Am, Harper (in 1930s Europe, a group of German exiles educates the world about the threat of Nazi Germany, based on a true story)

Kate Furnivall, The White Pearl, Sphere (tensions arise for family and friends  on a yacht fleeing Pearl Harbor for Singapore)

Stephen Gallagher, The Bedlam Detective, Crown 

Alex George, The Good American, Amy Einhorn/Putnam (about a family caught up in the sweep of history)

Anthony Giardina, Norumbega Park, FSG (novel about the consequences of
pursuing the American dream, set in the Boston area in 1969)

Julia Gregson, Jasmine Nights, Orion (nurse meets WWII burns victim in sussex hospital, loses him, then they meet again in Egypt)

Kate Grenville, Sarah Thornhill, Canongate (sequel to The Secret River, set in colonial Australia & New Zealand)

Romesh Gunesekera, The Prisoners of Paradise, Bloomsbury (young Englishwoman is attracted to Ceylonese translator in Mauritius in 1825 whilst slavery is ending and unrest is brewing in India)

Jane Harris, Gillespie and I, HarperPerennial (an elderly woman relates the story of her friendship with a talented artist; set in the late 19th century and in the 1930s)

Robin Lee Hatcher, Heart of Gold, Thomas Nelson (inspirational romance in a
19th-c Gold Rush town)

Margot Livesey, The Flight of Gemma Hardy, Harper (homage to and modern variation on Jane Eyre, set in the 1960s)

Dorothy Love, Beauty for Ashes, Thomas Nelson (inspirational romance set in
the South just after the Civil War)

Robert Low, The Lion at Bay, HarperCollins (second in series on Wallace, Bruce and the making of Scotland)

Jack Ludlow, A Bitter Field, Allison & Busby (spy novel set in 1938 as the SIS recruits Cal Jardine to find out if Hitler is planning to invade Czechoslovakia)

Thomas Mallon, Watergate, Pantheon (fictional retelling of the Watergate
scandal)

Richard Mason, History of a Pleasure-Seeker, Knopf (set at the height of
Europe's belle epoque, a handsome young man secures a position as a tutor in
Amsterdam)

Bernice L. McFadden, Gathering of Waters, Akashic (the town of Money,
Mississippi, hometown of Emmett Till, over decades)

Tamar Myers, The Cannibal's Children, Morrow (rituals, religion, and murder in this mystery set in the Belgian Congo in the 1950s)

Mary Nichols, Girl on the Beach, Allison & Busby (orphaned as a child, Julie seeks her son in the London Blitz & must choose between making a new life or restoring her shattered identity)

Jonathan Odell, The Healing, Doubleday/Talese (a mysterious and charismatic
healer in the pre-Civil War South)

Olaf Olafsson, Restoration, Ecco (sweeping story of love tested by the terrors and tragedies of war, set in the breathtaking landscape of Tuscany in the 1940s)

Matthew Pearl, The Technologists, Random House & Harvill Secker (students of newly-formed MIT must stop technological attacks on Boston in 1868)

Taylor M. Polites, The Rebel Wife, S&S (a young widow trying to survive in the violent world of Reconstruction Alabama)

Ralph Peters, Cain at Gettysburg, Forge (combat fiction set during the US
Civil War)

Tim Powers, Hide Me Among the Graves, Morrow (historical thriller in which art and the supernatural collide in 1862 London)

Frederick Ramsay, The Eighth Veil, Perfect Niche/Poisoned Pen Press (mystery set in the year 28 CE in Jerusalem during the feast of Tabernacles)

Roberta Rich, The Midwife of Venice, Gallery (suspense and adventure; a midwife in 16th-c Venice saves a Christian mother and child)

Lucinda Riley, The Orchid House, Atria (family secrets span the 1930s to the present day, from war-torn England to Thailand) 

Imogen Robertson, Anatomy of Murder, Pamela Dorman/Viking (mystery, 2nd outing of Harriet Westerman in 1781 London) 

Morgan Callan Rogers, Red Ruby Heart in a Cold Blue Sea, Viking (young
heroine comes of age in coastal Maine in the early 1960s)

Imogen Robertson, Anatomy of Murder, Viking (Georgian mystery featuring
Harriet Westerman, set in London of 1781; 2nd in series)

Andromeda Romano-Lax, The Detour, Soho (In 1938, a lonely young German man's life spins out of his control during a three-day trip to Rome)

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Noah’s Child, Atlantic (in Belgium under Nazi occupation, a Jewish boy separated from his parents is sheltered by a priest with a secret)

Audrey Schulman, Three Weeks in December, Europa (tension between progress and preservation in 1899 Africa and today)

Lynn Shepherd, Tom-All-Alone’s, Corsair (detective story set in Victorian London, reminiscent of Bleak House & The Woman In White)

John Stack, Armada, Harper UK (a man confronts his long-estranged father
when England faces the Spanish Armada)

Christine Trent, By the King's Design, Kensington (romantic novel set during
the English Regency)

Dan Vyleta, The Quiet Twin, Bloomsbury (literary fiction set in 1939 Vienna; atmospheric crime novel)

Katie Ward, Girl Reading, Scribner (women over the last seven centuries, caught in the act of reading)

Jack Whyte, The Forest Laird, Forge (1st in trilogy about William Wallace)

Lauren Willig, The Garden Intrigue, Dutton (9th installment of the Pink
Carnation series, in which an atrocious poet teams up with an American widow
to prevent Napoleon's invasion)

Margaret Wurtele, The Golden Hour, NAL (novel of love and hope set in Tuscany in the summer of 1944)

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March 2012

Lyn Andrews, Beyond a Misty Shore, Headline (saga set in 1945 Liverpool)

Jeffrey Archer, The Sins of the Father, Macmillan (second in the Clifton chronicles opens in New York in 1939)

Peter Behrens, The O'Briens, Pantheon (spans half a century in the lives of
a restless 20th-c California family)

Rhys Bowen, Hush Now, Don't You Cry, Minotaur (Molly Murphy Sullivan
investigates an alderman's death in 1904 Newport, RI)

Sarah Bower, The Needle in the Blood, Sourcebooks (sex, love, and embroidery in a tale of 11th-century England)

William Boyd, Waiting for Sunrise, Bloomsbury (1913: Englishman in Vienna for psychiatric treatment falls in love with a young woman in a story spanning Londin, Geneva and the battlefields of France)

Margaret Brownley, Dawn Comes Early, Thomas Nelson (inspirational romance
set in 1895 Arizona Territory)

Tom Bullough, Konstantin, Viking (boy in 1860s Russia realises the possibility of space travel)

Peter Cameron, Coral Glynn, FSG (period novel set in the English countryside
in 1950)

Jetta Carleton, Clair de Lune, HarperPerennial (newly discovered novel of small-town love; set in 1941)

Alicia Clifford, The Affair, St. Martin's (following an author's funeral, a story is revealed of her postwar affair)

Clive Cussler and Justin Scott, The Thief, Putnam US & Michael Joseph UK (action-adventure spy thriller set on the ocean liner Mauretania during WWII)

Lindsey Davis, Master and God, Hodder & Stoughton (story of a couple trying to survive during the Emperor Domitian’s reign of terror, plots & intrigue in Rome, 1stC AD)

Anna Dean, A Woman of Consequence, Minotaur (3rd in Dido Kent mystery series set in early 19th-c England)

Carole DeSanti, The Unruly Passions of Eugenie R., HMH (a young woman's struggle with life and love in the backstreets and bordellos of 19th-c Paris)

David Dickinson, Death at the Jesus Hospital, Soho (Edward period whodunnit)

Jennifer duBois, A Partial History of Lost Causes, Dial (brainy love story
set during the Cold War)

Sam Eastland, Archive 17, Bantam (in 1939, Russia's greatest detective goes
undercover at the Gulag where he was once imprisoned)

Nicholas Edlin, The Widow's Daughter, Penguin (an artist is haunted by his WWII past, when he and his nemesis loved the same woman)

Rosslyn Elliott, Sweeter than Birdsong, Thomas Nelson (inspirational novel about the Hanby family of musicians in 1854 Ohio)

Lyndsay Faye, The Gods of Gotham, Putnam US & Headline UK (a serial killer stalks NYC in 1845, fanning the flames of anti-Irish sentiment)

Kate Furnivall, The White Pearl, Berkley (lush novel of romance and adventure set during the Japanese invasion of Malaya in 1941)

Alan Furst, The Spies of Paris, Weidenfeld & Nicolson (thriller set in Paris in 1939)

Iain Gale, Jackals’ Revenge, HarperCollins (second in series: the British are struggling to hold their own in Greece against Germans and Italians)

W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear, A Searing Wind, Gallery (devastating culture clash that followed Europeans' arrival in America)

Peter Golden, Comeback Love, Atria (nostalgic fiction of lost love, from the tumultuous1960s to present-day New York City)

T D Griggs, Distant Thunder, Orion (love & revenge in the late 19thC British Empire bracing itself for political opposition)

Paul Grossman, Children of Wrath, St. Martin's (how Willi Kraus became a
celebrated Jewish detective in Weimar Germany)

June Hampson, A Mother’s Journey, Orion (family tragedy set in 1940s Gosport)

Titania Hardie, The House of the Wind, Washington Square (love story of magic and healing, from modern San Francisco to medieval Tuscany)

Georgina Harding, Painter of Silence, Bloomsbury (1950: nurse meets a patient in a hospital who takes her back to when they knew each other before WWII)

C.S. Harris, When Maidens Mourn, Obsidian (Regency mystery involving aristocratic investigator Sebastian St. Cyr and the myth of King Arthur)

Kathryn Harrison, Enchantments, Random House (story of doomed love, set at
the fall of Russia's last tsar)

Dan James, Unsinkable, Arrow (conspiracy thriller set aboard the Titanic)

Sadie Jones, The Uninvited Guests, Chatto & Windus (1912: the arrival of accident survivors at a country house turn a birthday party into chaos)

Susanna Jones, When Nights Were Cold, Mantle (terrible events ensue when a group of early 20thC women defy society by planning an Antarctic expedition)

David Kowalski, The Company of the Dead, Titan (alternate history surrounding the sinking of the Titanic)

Victoria Lamb, The Queen’s Secret, Bantam (when Elizabeth I sets a young black girl singer to spy on the Earl of Leicester and his lover, the Countess of Essex, she uncovers a plot to murder the Queen)

Camilla MacPherson, Pictures at an Exhibition, Arrow (modern woman becomes obsessed with a woman who wrote about the National Gallery’s monthly showing of a masterpiece during WWII and begins to find parallels with her own life)

Jennifer McVeigh, The Fever Tree, Viking (love story set in 1870s South Africa)

Sándor Márai, Portraits of a Marriage, Vintage (portrayal of a love
triangle, set in Hungary between the world wars)

Siri Mitchell, The Messenger, Bethany House (novel of the Quaker faith)

Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles, Ecco (unique retelling of the legend of Achilles: a tale of gods, kings, immortal fame, and the human heart)

Donna Russo Morin, The King's Agent, Kensington (in 1527, two people follow clues to find an unearthly relic intended for the King of France which could change the balance of power throughout Europe)

Glenn Patterson, The Mill For Grinding Old People Young, Faber (old man recalls his life in Belfast from 1830 to 1897)

Sharon Penman, Lionheart, Macmillan (story of Richard the Lionheart)

Sophie Perinot, The Sister Queens, NAL (relationship and rivalry between two sisters from Provence, Marguerite and Eleanor, who became queens of France and England in the 13th century)

Charlotte Rogan, The Lifeboat, Virago (Grace, adrift on an overfull lifeboat after her transatlantic liner is blown up in 1914, undergoes a life-changing experience)

M.J. Rose, The Book of Lost Fragrances, Atria (secrets, intrigue, and lovers separated by time, connected through the mystical qualities of a perfume created in the days of Cleopatra) 

Sean Thomas Russell, A Ship of War, Michael Joseph (naval adventure set in 1794)

Hallie Rubenhold, A Perfect Deceit, Doubleday (latest in Confessions of Henrietta Lightfoot series, about a young woman at large in 18thC England)

Simone St. James, The Haunting of Maddy Clare, NAL (women's fiction; a ghost story set in 1920s England)

Kim Scott, That Deadman Dance, Bloomsbury USA (early contact between the Aboriginal Noongar people and the first European settlers in 19th-c Western Australia) 

Lloyd Shepherd, The English Monster, Simon & Schuster (story spanning the first slaving voyage of Capt Hawkyns in 1564 & The Ratcliff Highway Murders in 1811 London)

Jill Eileen Smith, Sarai, Revell (novel of the matriarch Sarai/Sarah)

Kieran Shields, The Truth of All Things, Crown (gothic mystery and the
heritage of witchcraft in 19th-c Maine)

D J Taylor, Secondhand Daylight, Corsair (rent collector finds himself up to his neck in trouble in 1930s Soho)

Peter Troy, May the Road Rise Up to Meet You, Knopf (epic fiction of 19th-c
America, told from four distinct perspectives)

Jessica Maria Tuccelli, Glow, Viking (Georgia mountain epic about the
complex bonds of mothers and daughters, from 1836 to 1941)

Ciji Ware, A Light on the Veranda, Sourcebooks (historical time-slip novel set in Natchez, Mississippi in 1830-40 & contemporary)

Sylvia Townsend Warner, The Corner That Held Them, Virago (reissue of 1948 novel set in a medieval convent in Norfolk during the Black Death)

Jacqueline Winspear, A Lesson in Secrets, Allison & Busby (1932: Maisie Dobbs is sent undercover to investigate suspicious activities at a Cambridge college when its principal is murdered)

Val Wood, The Harbour Girl, Doubleday (saga set in 1880s Scarborough)

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Commedia della Morte, Tor (Count of St. Germain
vampire novel set during the Terror of the French Revolution)

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April 2012

Jeffrey Archer, The Sins of the Father, St. Martin's (part 2 of his
multigenerational saga of fame and fortune, set in WW2 Britain and America)

Elizabeth Bailey, The Deathly Portent, Berkley Prime Crime (Georgian-era mystery centering on witchcraft in the English village of Witherley)

April Bernard, Miss Fuller, Steerforth (literary biographical fiction about Margaret Fuller, mid-19th c feminist and orator)

Marcel Beyer, Kaltenberg, HMH (a charismatic scientist and his dark secrets, set in 1940s-50s Germany)

Stewart Binns, Crusade, Michael Joseph (second in series set during the Norman Conquest & its aftermath)

William Boyd, Waiting for Sunrise, Harper (deception and betrayal in 1913 Vienna)

Barbara Taylor Bradford, Letter from a Stranger, St. Martin's (family secrets and betrayal, from WWII Berlin to Istanbul to the present day)

Gyles Brandreth, Oscar Wilde and the Vatican Murders, Touchstone (Oscar Wilde murder mystery)

William Broderick, The Day of the Lie, Little, Brown (latest Father Anselm mystery set after WWI)

Kate Lord Brown, The Perfume Garden, Corvus (returning to Spain to renovate a villa left to her by her mother, Emma unlocks secrets from the Spanish Civil War)

DeAnna Cameron, Dancing at the Chance, Berkley (a chorus girl in turn-of-the-century NY is pulled into the intrigues of the city's elite)

Mark Chadbourn, The Devil’s Looking Glass, Bantam (latest in supernatural  adventure series set in Elizabethan England)

Sandra Dallas, True Sisters, St. Martin's (novel about Mormon converts' trek across the desert to Salt Lake City from Iowa, from the viewpoint of four women) 

Anna Dean, A Woman of Consequence, Minotaur (latest Dido Kent mystery set in Regency England)

Vicki Delany, Gold Mountain: A Klondike Mystery, Dundurn (Fiona MacGillivray mystery set in 1897 Vancouver and Alaska)

Michelle Diener, Keeper of the King's Secrets, Gallery (Tudor court intrigue featuring Henry VIII's deadliest courtier and a female artist)

PC Doherty, The Mysterium, Minotaur (latest in Sir Hugh Corbett mystery
series set in 1304, about the murder of a chief justice in the King's court)

Maria Dueñas, Haute Couture, Viking (seamstress becomes a British spy in Morocco in WWII)

Gordon Ferris, Bitter Water, Corvus (latest in crime series set in post-WWII Glasgow)

Tony Hays, The Stolen Bride, Forge (Arthurian mystery, 4th in series, about
a murdered king, his young and defenseless widow, and a one-armed scribe in
search of his killer)

Kathy Hepinstall, Blue Asylum, HMH (a plantation wife wrongly sent to an asylum falls in love with a war-haunted Confederate soldier)

Sarah Jio, The Bungalow, Plume (love story set against the backdrop of the War in the Pacific)

Susanna Kearsley, Mariana, Sourcebooks (time-slip novel set in the present day and in 17th-c England)

Philip Kerr, Prague Fatale, Putnam (a Bernie Gunther thriller set in 1941 Prague; a man on Heydrich's staff is murdered)

Jane Kirkpatrick, Where Lilacs Still Bloom, WaterBrook (fictional account of
a real pioneer housewife, circa 1900, whose love for flowers changed the
lives of those around her)

Giles Kristian, The Bleeding Land, Bantam (first in a trilogy set in the English Civil War)

Maureen Lee, After The War Is Over, Orion (women trying adapt to life in Liverpool after WWII)

Kelly Long, Arms of Love, Thomas Nelson (Amish novel set in 1777
Pennsylvania, when they first came to America)

Elizabeth Loupas, The Flower Reader, NAL (a gifted young woman negotiates a maze of murder and conspiracy in the court of Mary, Queen of Scots)

Jim Lynch, Truth Like the Sun, Knopf (cat-and-mouse story of urban intrigue in 1962 and 2001 Seattle)

Anna MacLean, Louisa and the Crystal Gazer, NAL (third Louisa May Alcott historical mystery)  

Kenneth Macleod, The Incident, Weidenfeld & Nicolson (interconnected stories of a present-day lifeguard, his grandfather on a torpedoed ship in WWII, & a Cold War refugee)

Susan Elia MacNeal, Mr Churchill's Secretary, Bantam (Maggie Hope, Mr Churchill's newest typist, balances her duty to King and Country with her need for survival; mystery)

Gillian Mears, Foal’s Bread, Allen & Unwin (pre-WWI story of a family in a rural community in New South Wales that revolves around the land and the local showjumping circuit)

Jude Morgan, The Secret Life of William Shakespeare, Headline (story of Shakespeare)

Laura Moriarty, The Chaperone, Michael Joseph (girl’s life changes when she becomes chaperone to a young woman hungry for stardom, set in 1922)

Dora Levy Mossanen, The Last Romanov, Sourcebooks (centers on a wise old beauty whose time spent with the Russian Imperial family has haunted her entire life)

Andrew Motion, Silver, Jonathan Cape (sequel to Treasure Island)

Robert Olmstead, The Coldest Night, Algonquin (fast-moving love affair that changes the course of a boy's life, set in 1950 US and Korea)

Regina O'Melveny, The Book of Madness and Cures, Little Brown (literary fiction about the adventures of a female midwife in Renaissance Venice)

S.J. Parris, Sacrilege, HarperCollins UK & Doubleday US (historical thriller set in 16th-c England, centered on the highly secretive cult of Saint Thomas Becket)

Anne Perry, Dorchester Terrace, Ballantine (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt
Victorian mystery in which they race to find a traitor within Special
Branch)

Amanda Quick, Crystal Gardens, Putnam (Victorian romance/thriller with a touch of the paranormal)

Kate Quinn, Empress of the Seven Hills, Berkley / UK title Empress of Rome, Headline (sequel to Mistress of Rome, epic saga set during the reign of Emperor Trajan)

Peter Ransley, The Price, Harper UK (2nd in Tom Neave trilogy set in 1647)

Ron Rash, The Cove, Ecco (nature and love and the darkness of superstition and fear, set in Appalachia during World War I)

Anthony Riches, The Leopard Sword, Hodder & Stoughton (latest in Roman Empire army adventure series)

Imogen Robertson, Circle of Shadows, Headline (thriller set in Germany in 1784 when Harriet sets out to investigate a murder of which her brother-in-law is charged)

D.J. Taylor, Derby Day, Pegasus (romance and rivalry, gambling and greed, set on the Epsom Downs in the 19th century)

Penny Vincenzi, More Than You Know, Doubleday (custody battle over a little girl, set against the glossy backdrop of the magazine and advertising worlds in 1960s London)

Charlotte Rogan, The Lifeboat, Little Brown (the sinking of an ocean liner in 1914 leaves a newly married woman battling for survival)

Alex Scarrow, The Candle Man, Orion (story linking the Titanic and Jack the Ripper)

Elif Shafat, Honour, Viking (multi-generational story of Kurdish women, ending in London in 1978)

Dan Smith, The Child Thief, Orion (thriller involving a lynching and a kidnapped child in the Ukraine in 1930)

M L Stedman, The Light Between Oceans, Doubleday (lighthouse keeper and his wife on an island off W Australia in the 1920s, bring up a baby found on a dinghy with the body of a dead man, later discovering someone is looking for the child)

Nicola Upson, Fear in the South, Faber (Josephine Tey and murders connected with Hitchcock films, 1936)

Jack Whyte, Rebel, Sphere (story of William Wallace, first in Braveheart Chronicles)

Jacqueline Winspear, Elegy for Eddie, Harper (Maisie Dobbs investigates the murder of a slow-witted man in 1933 England)

Ling Zhang, Gold Mountain Blues, Corvus (story of a Chinese family from 1879 Opium war in China to modern Canada)

Youssef Ziedan, Azazeel, Atlantic (a 5thC Coptic monk’s journey from upper Egypt to Alexandria to Syria in a time of upheaval for Christianity)

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May 2012

Tessa Afshar, Harvest of Rubies, River North (Biblical-era fiction about a female scribe at the Persian court)

A L Berridge, Into the Valley of Death, Michael Joseph (first in new series set in the Crimean War)

Rachel Billington, Maria and the Admiral, Orion (intriguing relationship between Admiral Thomas Cochrane and Maria Graham, an Englishwoman he met in Valparaiso in 1822)

Laurent Binet, HHhH, FSG & Harvill Secker (assassins of Reinhard Heydrich in WWII Prague)

Robin Blake, A Dark Anatomy, Minotaur (historical mystery set in 1740 Lancashire)

D.L. Bogdan, The Sumerton Women, Kensington (Tudor-era family saga)

Nick Brown, Agent of Rome: The Imperial Banner, Hodder & Stoughton (second in adventure series set in the eastern Roman Empire in the 3rdC AD)

Peter Carey, The Chemistry of Tears, Knopf (dual-narrative literary fiction; a modern-day museum conservator uncovers an old story while restoring a 19th-c automaton)

Meg Clothier, The Empress, Century (Young French princess wed to the son of the Emperor of Constantinople is widowed and later finds true love just as the Crusaders’ siege of Constantinople starts)

Lindsey Davis, Master and God, St. Martin's (epic of 1st-century Rome and the Emperor Domitian)

Victor del Arbol, The Sadness of the Samurai, Holt (historical thriller; a betrayal and murder in pro-Nazi Spain spark a struggle for power that grips a family for generations)

Donna Douglas, The Nightingale Girls, Arrow (first in a series about a group of girls who sign up to be nurses in 1936 in London’s East End)

David Downing, Lehrter Station, Soho (a John Russell post-WWII thriller in which he gets caught between Soviets and Americans)

Nataša Dragnić, Every Day, Every Hour, Viking (novel of star-crossed love, set in 1960s Croatia and decades later in Paris)

Ed Falco, The Family Corleone, Grand Central (Godfather-themed novel set in Depression-era NYC)

Robert Fabbri, Vespasian: Rome’s Executioner, Corvus (second in series: AD30 Vespasian is caught up in the deadly politics of a disintegrating empire headed by a mad emperor)

Nicole Galland, I, Iago, Morrow Paperbacks (recrafting of Shakespeare's Othello)

Jane Gardam, Crusoe's Daughter, Europa (a young woman's life along the Irish Sea during the 20th c)

Robert Goolrick, Heading Out to Wonderful, Algonquin (about the dark side of passion in mid-century America in a small Virginia town)

Genevieve Graham, Sound of the Heart, Berkley (historical romance set in the 18th-c Scottish Highlands and in North America)

Juliet Grey, Days of Splendor, Days of Sorrow, Ballantine (part 2 of Marie Antoinette trilogy)

Ravi Howard, Driving the King, Harper (novel of Jim Crow Alabama featuring Nat King Cole's driver)

Jane Johnson, The Sultan’s Wife, Viking (Englishwoman captured by Barbary corsairs finds love & adventure in 17thC Morocco)

Douglas C. Jones, Roman, NAL (Western novel set in post-Civil War Leavenworth, Kansas)

Sherry Jones, Four Sisters, All Queens, Gallery (about four 13th-c noble sisters from Provence, each of whom became queen of a different land)

Ismail Kadare, The Fall of the Stone City, Canongate (what happened at dinner in Albania with a local doctor and Nazi officers is connected to a later conspiracy to undermine Socialism)

Joseph Kanon [untitled], Simon & Schuster US & UK (American undercover agent in Istanbul in 1945)

Gabrielle Kimm, The Courtesan's Lover, Sourcebooks (a courtesan and her two young daughters in Renaissance-era Ferrara)  

Eleanor Kuhns, A Simple Murder, Minotaur (the murder of a young Shaker woman in 1796 Maine)

Lois Leveen, The Secrets of Mary Bowser, Morrow Paperbacks (based on the true story of Mary Bowser, a former slave who became a Union spy during the US Civil War)

Nell Leyshon, The Colour of Milk, Fig Tree (1830s: an illiterate farm girl tries to tell what happened to her when she worked for a vicar’s invalid wife)

Alan Lightman, Einstein’s Dreams, Corsair (collage of stories dreamed by Einstein in 1905)

Malcolm MacDonald, Strange Music, Severn House (sequel to Dower House; concentration camp survivors join a society for communal living in postwar England)

Hilary Mantel, Bring Up The Bodies, 4^th Estate (the sequel to Wolf Hall portrays the destruction of Anne Boleyn)

Simon Mawer, The Girl Who Fell From The Sky, Little, Brown (story of young woman who volunteers for SOE & is parachuted into occupied France during WWII)

Michael McGarrity, Hard Country, Dutton (novel about the rough-hewn men and courageous women of the American Southwest, 1875-1918)

James McGee, Hawkwood: A Regency Crime Thriller, Pegasus (first US release for Hawkwood action-adventure Regency crime series)

Alex Miller, Autumn Laing, Allen & Unwin (in old age a woman reflects on the 1930s artistic circle she created and the effect of one artist on both their lives)

Danny Miller, The Gilded Edge, Robinson (2^nd in detective series set in 1960s London)

Alan Monaghan, The Soldier’s Farewell, Macmillan (last in trilogy set during WWI and the Irish war for independence in 1921)

Meg Mitchell Moore, So Far Away, Little Brown (a wayward teenager and a lonely archivist's lives come together over the reading of a 1920s diary of an Irish servant) 

Toni Morrison, Home, Knopf (Korean war vet confronts racial tension in 1950s America) 

Juliet Nicolson, Abdication, Atria (novel set in England, 1936, the year of Edward VIII's abdication)

Oliver Poetzsch, The Dark Monk, HMH (historical mystery set in 17th-c Bavaria; sequel to The Hangman's Daughter)

Sara Poole, The Borgia Mistress, St. Martin's Griffin (historical thriller with Borgia court poisoner Francesca Giordano)

David Rain, The Gravity of Americans, Atlantic (bookish boy makes flamboyant friend at school and later discovers a darker side to him in frenetic 1920s New York)

Matt Rees, A Name in Blood, Corvus (the disappearance of Caravaggio in early 17thC Rome ruled by the Borgias)

James Runcie, Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death, Bloomsbury USA & UK (first in the Grantchester Mysteries spanning 1953 to 1981, Rev Chambers investigates murder in the year of the Queen’s Coronation)

Alex Rutherford, Empire of the Moghul: The Tainted Throne, Headline (fourth in a series, set in 17thC India)

Steven Saylor, The Seven Wonders, Minotaur (prequel to Roma Sub Rosa series, following 18-year-old Gordianus the Finder as he visits the Seven Wonders of the World)

Simon Scarrow,[title TBC], Headline (adventure set during the Siege of Malta by the Turks in 1565)

Angela Schrobsdorff, You Are Not Like Other Mothers, Europa (a woman who refuses to be imprisoned by society's rules, spanning the 20th-c's first half)

M C Scott, Eagle of the Twelfth, Bantam (latest in 1stC AD Emperor’s Spy series: band of Roman legionaries avenge a catastrophic defeat by Judaean rebels)

Lynn Shepherd, The Solitary House, Delacorte (historical thriller of 1850 London)

Rosie Sultan, Helen Keller in Love, Viking (the little-known romance between Keller and Peter Fagan)

Victoria Thompson, Murder on Fifth Avenue, Berkley Prime Crime (gaslight murder mystery set in late 19th-c NYC)

Christopher Tilghman, The Right-Hand Shore, FSG (race, family, and forbidden love in the post-Civil War era on Chesapeake Bay)

Adriana Trigiani, The Shoemaker's Wife, Harper (multigenerational love story of Italy and America, from 1912 through post-WWII)

Wendy Wallace, The Painted Bridge, Simon & Schuster (1859: a newly-married woman is incarcerated in an asylum and finds her attempts to be released are thwarted although she isn’t insane)

Alison Weir, A Dangerous Inheritance, Hutchinson (Lady Catherine Grey, imprisoned for having a child that might threaten Elizabeth I’s title, finds papers relating to Richard III’s bastard daughter and the mystery of the Princes in the Tower)

Beatriz Williams, Overseas, Putnam (novel of a love that transcends time, moving between 2007 and the Great War)

Felicity Young, The Anatomy of Death, Berkley (historical mystery featuring England's first female autopsy surgeon, set in the early 20th c)

Richard Zimler, The Seventh Gate, Overlook (literary murder mystery set in 1932 Berlin)

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June 2012

Anita Amirrezvani, Equal of the Sun, Scribner (power, loyalty, and love in the royal court of 17th-c Iran)

Daniel Arsand, Lovers, Europa (literary fiction about a man and his affair with a nobleman in Louis XV's court)

Larry Bjornson, Wide Open, Berkley (debut novel about the historical evolution of Abilene, Kansas)

Richard Blake, The Ghosts of Athens, Hodder & Stoughton (in AD 612, Senator Aelric of the Roman Empire finds himself facing murder and worse in corrupt Athens)

Francesca Brill, The Harbour, Bloomsbury (war, love & culpability in 1940s Hong Kong & New York)

Eli Brown, Cinnamon and Gunpowder, FSG (swashbuckling epicurean adventure set on the high seas in 1819)

Sandra Byrd, The Secret Keeper, Howard (a novel of Kateryn Parr)

Clare Clark, Beautiful Lies, Harvill Secker (secrets of politician’s wife in 1887 London during time of political stirrings)

Gideon Defoe, The Pirates! In an Adventure with the Romantics, Bloomsbury (adventure with pirates, Byron, Shelley & Mary his fiancée in Geneva and Romania, early 19thC)

Tatiana de Rosnay, The House I Loved, Macmillan (woman resists the destruction of her home during Napoleon III’s renovation of Paris, 1869)

William Dietrich, The Treasure of Montezuma, Harper (Ethan Gage adventure in which he searches for Montezuma's lost treasure in the early 19th c)

C.W. Gortner, The Queen's Vow, Ballantine (biographical fiction about the young Isabella, Queen of Castile in the 15th century)

E A Dineley, The Death of Lyndon Wilder, Corsair (new governess finds her charge’s household fraught with tension after the death of the eldest son in the Napoleonic Wars)

Lesley Downer, Across A Bridge of Dreams, Bantam (As Japan enters the modern era in the 1870s, star-crossed lovers find themselves tested to the limit)

Francine du Plessix Gray, The Queen's Lover, Penguin Press (the untold love affair between Count Alex von Fersen and Marie Antoinette)

Richard Ford, Canada, Bloomsbury (family escapes from Montana to Canada after robbing a bank in 1956)

Sue Gee, [title TBC], Headline (story of four generations of an English family beginning in 1947)

Ann Granger, A Particular Eye for Villainy, Headline (4 th in husband-and-wife Victorian crime series)

Alex Grecian, The Yard, Michael Joseph/Putnam (London in 1889, after Jack the Ripper, is again in the grip of murder)

Susanna Gregory, Murder by the Book, Sphere (latest Matthew Bartholomew mystery set in 14thC Cambridge)

Julia Gregson, Jasmine Nights, Touchstone (novel set in Cairo, Alexandria and Istanbul in 1942)

Kate Grenville, Sarah Thornhill, Grove (sequel to The Secret River, set in frontier Australia)

Tracy Groot, Flame of Resistance, Tyndale

Ruth Hamilton, Lights of Liverpool, Macmillan (three connected families in post-war Liverpool)

Deborah Harkness, Shadow of Night, Headline (sequel to A Discovery of Witches: going back to 1590, couple fall in with a group of radicals, The School of Night)

Susan Higginbotham, Her Highness, The Traitor, Sourcebooks (story of Jane Grey, her mother, and her mother-in-law)

Michael Jecks, City of Fools and Fiends, Simon & Schuster (latest in 14thC Baldwin de Furnshill mystery series)

Suzanne Joinson, A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar, Bloomsbury USA (two lady adventurers along the Silk Road in 1923, juxtaposed against a present-day London story)

Daniel Kalla, The Far Side of the Sky, Forge (on the eve of WWII, a Jewish family's last hope lies in Shanghai)

Ben Kane, Spartacus: The Gladiator, St. Martin's (adventure in ancient Rome)

Alma Katsu, The Reckoning, Gallery (2nd in historical/paranormal trilogy set in colonial/modern New England)

Anna Keesey, Little Century, FSG (debut novel about the range wars in the American West at the turn of the century)

G W Kent, One Blood, Robinson (murder mystery set in the Solomon Islands in the 1960s)

Mercedes Lackey, Home from the Sea, DAW (fantasy novel, part of the Elemental Masters series set in a magical Edwardian Britain)

Mario Vargas Llosa, The Dream of the Celt, FSG (novel about Roger Casement, early 20th-c human rights pioneer)

Elizabeth Loupas, The Flower Reader, Preface (dangerous secrets in a maze of murder & conspiracy as Mary Queen of Scots comes to reign in divided Scotland)

Andrew Martin, The Baghdad Railway Club, Faber (latest in railway detective Jim Stringer series: Jim Investigates treason in Baghdad in 1917)

Alice Mattison, When We Argued All Night, Harper Perennial (three generations in Brooklyn, from 1936 to 1986 and after)

Catriona McPherson, Dandy Gilver and an Unsuitable Day for Murder, Minotaur (amateur sleuth Dandy is caught between two feuding families; set in early 20th-c Scotland)

Laura Moriarty, The Chaperone, Riverhead (about the woman who chaperoned Louise Brooks to NYC in 1922, and the summer that changed them both)

Christopher Nicole, Queen of Glory, Severn House (in 19th-c India, Lakshmi Bai, the recently deposed Rani of Jhansi, is embroiled in the developing Indian Mutiny)

Anne O'Brien, The King's Concubine, NAL (novel of Alice Perrers, mistress to Edward III in medieval England)

Julia Quinn, A Night Like This, Piatkus (historical romance described as “Jane Austen meets Bridget Jones”)

Jeff Shaara, A Blaze of Glory, Ballantine (novel of the Battle of Shiloh)

Lloyd Shepherd, The English Monster, Atria (historical thriller in which two tales converge: the investigation into a brutal series of murders in 1811 London and the seafaring adventures of a young man in Elizabethan England)

Elizabeth Speller, The Strange Fate of Kitty Easton, HMH (dark family secrets are unearthed in 1911 England)

Jane Sullivan, Little People, Allen & Unwin (the story of midget General Tom Thumb’s 1870s tour of Australia)

Diana Wallis Taylor, Mary Magdalene: A Novel, Revell (Biblical fiction)

Carrie Tiffany, Mateship With Birds, Picador (1n 1950s Australia lonely farmer meets a woman whilst birdwatching and boundaries are threatened when he decides to teach her fatherless young son about sex)

Charles Todd, An Unmarked Grave, Morrow (4th Bess Crawford mystery about a battlefield nurse in WWI England)

Henry Venmore-Rowland, The Last Caesar, Bantam (story set in Rome during the Year of the Four Emperors, AD 69)

Jan Wallentin, Strindberg’s Star, Corvus (events from the present day back to an expedition that found a hidden city in the Taklamakan Desert in 1890 and an Arctic expedition that vanished in 1897 taking with it two mysterious artefacts from that city)

Jess Walter, The Beautiful Ruins, Harper (humor and romance, from the stage set of Cleopatra in 1962 Italy to modern Hollywood)

Kaki Warner, Bride of the High Country, Berkley (historical romantic fiction about a new bride in the Old West, 3rd in series)

Katherine Webb, The Unseen, Morrow Paperbacks (mystery and spiritualism in 1911 England)

Elizabeth Wilhide, Ashenden, Fig Tree (story of England through the fortunes of a Palladian house & the people connected with it from 1775 to present day)

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July 2012

Annamaria Alfieri, Invisible Country, Minotaur (murder mystery in war-torn 19th-c Paraguay)

Roberto Ampuero, The Neruda Case, Riverhead (private eye novel set against the backdrop of the Chilean coup in the '70s)

J. I. Baker, The Empty Glass, Dutton (conspiracy thriller about the death of Marilyn Monroe)

Joanna Brady, The Woman at the Light, St. Martin's Griffin (in 1839, a Southern woman overcomes tragedy with an unexpected new love)

Rebecca Cantrell, A City of Broken Glass, Forge (Hannah Vogel mystery, as she's trapped in Berlin with her son just before Kristallnacht) 

Pauline A. Chen, The Red Chamber, Knopf

Karen Engelmann, The Stockholm Octavo, Ecco (political intrigue, love, and belief in magic in late 18th-c Stockholm)

Jennie Fields, The Age of Desire, Pamela Dorman/Viking (Edith Wharton and the scandalous love affair that threatened her closest friendship) 

James Forrester, The Final Sacrament, Headline (1566, a man with a secret document is spied on by Francis Walsingham and goes on the run from a vengeful Lady Percy who hates him for having betrayed the Catholic cause)

Alan Furst, Mission to Paris, Random House (European WWII spy thriller) 

Posie Graeme-Evans, The Island House, Atria

Deborah Harkness, Shadow of Night, Viking (epic of romance and witchcraft, sequel to A Discovery of Witches, involving time-travel to Elizabethan London)

Karen Harper, Mistress of Mourning, NAL (in 1501 London, a young woman is sent to investigate the death of Prince Arthur on behalf of Henry VII's queen)

Victoria Hislop, The Thread, Harper Paperbacks (multi-period novel of Thessaloniki, Greece, set in 1917 and 2007)

D.B. Jackson, Thieftaker, Tor (historical fantasy set in colonial Boston)

David John, Flight from Berlin, Harper (historical thriller set in 1936 Berlin, during the Olympic Games)

Tabish Khair, The Thing About Thugs, HMH (macabre novel about an Indian man's misadventures in Victorian London)

Barbara Lazar, The Pillow Book of the Flower Samurai, Headline (prostitutes and Samurais in 12thC Japan)

Francine Mathews, Jack 1939, Riverhead (thriller; Jack Kennedy is sent to Europe by FDR for a secret mission)

Carol McCleary, The Formula for Murder, Forge (Nellie Bly mystery in which she hunts down a murderer in England)

Ami McKay, The Virgin Cure, Harper (in 1871 NYC, a wealthy socialite aims to stop the myth that syphilis can be cured by deflowering a virgin)

Lorenzo Mediano, The Frost On His Shoulders, Europa (in the isolated Pyrenees in the 1930s, an aging teacher reconstructs a bloody and tragic event)

Brandy Purdy, The Queen's Pleasure, Kensington (Tudor fiction about Robert Dudley and Amy Robsart)

Alex Rutherford, Ruler of the World, St. Martin's (3rd in adventure series set in the Moghul Empire)

Kate Sedley, The Tintern Treasure, Severn House (Roger the Chapman medieval mystery)

Harry Sidebottom, The Caspian Gates: Warrior of Rome Book 4, Overlook (historical adventure set in 262 AD)  

Peter Tremayne, Behold a Pale Horse, Minotaur (Sister Fidelma mystery of 7th-c Ireland) 

Wendy Wallace, The Painted Bridge, Scribner (a new bride is institutionalized against her will in 1859 London)

James Wilde, Hereward: The Devil’s Army, Bantam (2nd in series: 1067, Hereward resists encroaching Normans in E Anglian Fens)

Joan Wolf, This Scarlet Cord, Thomas Nelson (Biblical fiction, the love story of Rahab)

Donna VanLiere, The Good Dream, St. Martin's (an unlikely path to motherhood, set in 1950 Tennessee)

Jean Zimmerman, The Orphanmaster, Viking (historical thriller and love story set in 17th-c Manhattan)

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August 2012

Iris Anthony, The Ruins of Lace, Sourcebooks (novel set in 17th-century France)

Vilborg Davidsdottir, Galdur, AmazonCrossing (love and personal sacrifice in 15th-c Norway and England)

Rebecca Dean, The Shadow Queen, Broadway (novel of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor)

Suzanne Desrochers, Bride of New France, Norton (the story of a fille du roi, a Parisian orphan sent to marry a farmer in Quebec in the 17th century)

Selden Edwards, The Lost Prince, Dutton (sequel to The Little Book, a time-bending novel about a privileged young woman in 1890s Boston)

Kate Emerson, The King's Damsel, Gallery (about King Henry VIII's mistress, when he was married to Anne Boleyn)

Amanda Grange, Dear Mr. Darcy, Berkley (retells Pride & Prejudice through Darcy's eyes)

Philippa Gregory, The Kingmaker's Daughter, Touchstone (the story of Anne and Isabel Neville, during the Wars of the Roses)

Duong Thu Huong, The Zenith, Viking (imagined account of Ho Chi Minh's final months at an isolated mountaintop compound in Vietnam)

Michelle Moran, The Second Empress, Crown (a novel of Napoleon's court)

Maryanne O'Hara, Cascade, Viking (literary fiction about an artist and reluctant new wife in 1930s Massachusetts)

Mary Hart Perry, The Wild Princess, Morrow Paperbacks (novel about Queen Victoria's "wild child" daughter, Princess Louise) 

Enid Shomer, The Twelve Rooms of the Nile, Simon & Schuster (Florence Nightingale and Gustave Flaubert, both travelling in Egypt in 1849, form a deep friendship)

Joanna Campbell Slan, Death of a Schoolgirl, Berkley Prime Crime (in which Jane Eyre, married to her Mr Rochester, turns detective) 

M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans, Scribner (in 1926, a Western Australian couple finds a boat washed ashore with an infant and a dead man)

Sandi Tan, The Black Isle, Grand Central (epic about a woman's coming of age amid ghosts and the forces of modernity, from 1920s Shanghai to Indonesia to the present)

Gail Tsukiyama, A Hundred Flowers, St. Martin's (an ordinary family faces extraordinary times at the start of the Chinese Cultural Revolution)

Jeane Westin, The Spymaster's Daughter, NAL (danger and intrigue in the court of Elizabeth I, featuring Walsingham's daughter Lady Frances Sidney)

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