This Pulitzer Prize–winning novel follows two American academics in London—a young man and a middle-aged woman—as they each fall into unexpected romances.
In her early fifties, Vinnie Miner is the sort of woman no one ever notices, despite her career as an Ivy League professor. She doubts she could get a man’s attention if she waved a brightly colored object in front of him. And though she loves her work, her specialty—children’s...

The irresistible Andrew Basnett series may have been written in the 1980s and '90s, but its soul lies with the classic crime fiction of the 1930s. Here, for example, is A Hobby of Murder, with its setting at-wait for it-a classic country-house party, that staple of the Golden Age. Rounding out the guest list are, among others, a mystery writer, a lawyer with a reason to dislike him, a doctor, a retired teacher with a passion for photography, and the...

It is October 1940 and Gervase Fen, Oxford don and part-time sleuth--is preparing for the new term. Trouble is in store when Robert Warner, up and coming playwright, chooses Oxford for the premiere of his latest play, Metromania. Together with his cast he comes to Oxford to rehearse a week before the opening, but Warner's motley troupe includes the beautiful but dangerous Yseut Haskell. When she is found shot dead in the college room of a young man...

When Mollie Baird receives an anonymous note hinting at murder, she calls in her friend, Professor Andrew Basnett, who discovers a secret so evil it threatens to destroy the entire village.

Retired botany professor Andrew Basnett thought he would spend a quiet Christmas in Australia with his ex-student Tony Gardiner and Tony's wife Jan, but when Jan's sister if found bludgeoned to death with a hugh lump of crystal--the same way Jan's first husband has been killed--and Jan is missing, Basnett finds himself involved in a murder investigation.

Bold and clever, THE CAVANAUGHS are unlike any other family in early Victorian England. #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens continues to explore the enthralling world of these dynamic siblings in the eagerly anticipated second volume in her captivating series. A Gentleman of Means One of the most eligible bachelors in London, Lord Christopher "Kit" Cavanaugh has discovered his true path and it doesn't include the expected society...

At the turn of the century, an erotic obsession with a married man leads to a school teacher's downfall in an English village. It happens to Bethesda Barnet, an artist of some talent, after she fills her home with paintings of the object of her desire, the man next door. By the author of Sin.