Reading List

#PalliserParty

• Anthony Trollope, The Eustace Diamonds
• Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux
• Anthony Trollope, The Prime Minister
• Anthony Trollope, The Duke's Children

A year with our Jane

• Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
• Jane Austen, Emma
• Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
• Jane Austen, Persuasion
• Jane Austen, The Watsons
• Joan Aiken, Emma Watson, Lady Caroline's Necklace, and Jane Fairfax, and Mansfield Park Revisited
• Paula Byrne, The real Jane Austen:  a life in small things 
• Helena Kelly, Jane Austen:  the secret radical 

Biographies and Non-Fiction

• Anita Anand, Sophia
• Rosemary Ashton, George Eliot:  a life {B}
  
•  Clive Aslet, An Exuberant Catalogue of Dreams:  The Americans who revived the country house in Britain and The Edwardian Country House {A}
• Diane Atkinson, The criminal conversation of Mrs. Norton 
• Georgina Battiscombe, Queen Alexandra
• John Baxter, Paris at the End of the World:  The City of Light During the Great War, 1914-1918 {B}
• Sylvia Beach, The Letters of Sylvia Beach
• Nicola Beauman, The Other Elizabeth Taylor
• Adrian Bell, Apple Acre {noticed on Desperate Reader}
• Ludwig Bemelmans, To the One I Love Best {recommended here}
• Carol Berkin, Wondrous Beauty: The Life and Adventures of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte
• Joelle Bielle, ed., Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker : the complete correspondence
• Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, Words in Air:  the complete correspondence
• Evelyne Bloch-Dano, The last love of George Sand, translated from the French by Allison Charette
• Kate Bolick, Spinster:  making a life of one's own {noticed here}
• Walter R. Bomeman, American Spring: Lexington, Concord, and the Road to Revolution 
• Mark Bostridge, Lives for sale:  biographers' tales
• Sophie Campbell, The Season {noticed on Bas Bleu}
• Kathy Chamberlain, Jane Welsh Carlyle and her Victorian world {B}
• Lady Diana Cooper, Darling monster:  the letters of Diana Cooper to her son, John Julius Norwich, 1939-1952 {noticed here}
• Anne de Courcy, The fishing fleet : husband-hunting in the Raj {recommended by Lyn}, Margot at War and  The Husband Hunters 
• Tatiana de Rosnay, Manderley forever:  a biography of Daphne du Maurier {April}
• Joan DeJean, How Paris became Paris : the invention of the modern city
• John Demos, The Heathen School : a story of hope and betrayal in the age of the early Republic
• Matthew Dennison, 'Over the hills and far away:  the life of Beatrix Potter {B}
• Shelley DeWees, Not just Jane: rediscovering seven women writers who transformed British literature 
• Rolf Dobelli, The Art of Thinking Clearly
• Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire, In Tearing Haste:  letters between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor
• Anthony Doerr, Four seasons in Rome {recommended by Bellezza}
• Philip Eade, Sylvia, Queen of the Headhunters : An Eccentric Englishwoman and Her Lost Kingdom
• Martin Edwards, The golden age of murder
• Samantha Ellis, Take courage:  Anne Bronte and the art of life {A}
• Charles Emmerson, 1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War
• Sian Evans, Queen bees:  six brilliant and extraordinary society hostesses between the wars 
• Lara Feigel, The Love-charm of Bombs: Restless Lives in the Second World War {recommended by Fleur}
• Margaret Forster, My life in houses {noticed on Cornflower Books} 
• Margalit Fox, The Riddle of the Labyrinth: the Quest to Crack An Ancient Code {from an interview on NPR}   
• Janet Flanner, An American in Paris:  profile of an interlude between two wars {B}
• Flora Fraser, Princesses:  The six daughters of George III and The Washingtons:  George and Martha, 'Join'd by Friendship, Crown'd by Love' 
• Francois Furstenberg, When the United States was French:  five refugees who shaped a nation
• Angelica Garnett, Deceived with kindness:  a Bloomsbury childhood
• Gillian Gill, Nightingales:  the extraordinary upbringing and curious life of Miss Florence Nightingale
• Adam Gopnik, Paris to the Moon and The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food    
• Michael Gorra, Portrait of a Novel:  Henry James and the Making of a Masterpiece {A}
• Annie Gray, A Greedy Queen:  eating with Queen Victoria 
• Dr. Matthew Green, London:  a travel guide through time 
• Nile Green, The Love of Strangers:  What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen's London {B}
• Hannah Greig, The Beau Monde:  fashionable society in Georgian London {recommended on Random Jottings} 
• J.C. Hallman, Wm & H'ry:  Literature, Love and Letters between William & Henry James
• Margaret Halsey, With malice toward some {recommended on LibraryThing}
• Penrose Halson, The marriage bureau
• Claire Harman, Fanny Burney 
• Lucinda Hawskley, The mystery of Princess Louise : Queen Victoria's rebellious daughter {a.p,a.  Queen Victoria's Mysterious Daughter} {M, B} 
• Daisy Hay, The Young Romantics and Mr. and Mrs. Disraeli: A Strange Romance {recommended here}
• Edna Healey, The Queen's House:  a social history of Buckingham Palace
• Catherine Hewitt, The Mistress of Paris {B}
• Katie Hickman, Daughters of Britannia : the lives and times of diplomatic wives 
• Susan Hill, Howards End is on the Landing and Jacob's room has too many books {October}
• Kathryn Hughes, George Eliot:  the last Victorian
• Sam Irvin, Kay Thompson: from Funny face to Eloise 
• Diane Jacobs, Dear Abigail: The Intimate Lives and Revolutionary Ideas of Abigail Adams and Her Remarkable Sisters 
• Clive James, Latest Readings {recommended by Frances}
• Michael Jenkins, A house in Flanders {noticed on Shiny New Books} {A}
• Kathleen Jones, A passionate sisterhood:  the sisters, wives and daughters of the Lake Poets {noticed on I Prefer Reading}  {A, B} and A Glorious Fame:  the life of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle {M, A}
• Linda Kelly, Holland House:  a history of London's most celebrated salon {B}
• Greg King and Sue Woolmans, The assassination of the Archduke : Sarajevo, 1914, and the romance that changed the world 
• Jennifer Kloester, Georgette Heyer's Regency World 
• Jhumpa Lahiri, The clothing of books 
• Linda Leavell, Holding on Upside Down:  the life and work of Marianne Moore
• Lucy Lethbridge, Servants: a downstairs view of twentieth century Britain {noticcorreed on Cornflower Books} 
• Daniel J. Levitin, The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload. 
• Alison Light, Common people:  the history of an English family
• Penelope Lively, Ammonites and Leaping Fish:  a life in time {recommended by Lyn}and A House Unlocked (noticed on dovegreyreader scribbles}
• Suzanne Loebl, America's Medicis:  The Rockefellers and their astonishing cultural legacy 
• Mary S. Lovell, Churchills:  in love and war,  A Scandalous life:  the biography of Jane Digby; and The Riviera Set {A}
• Stewart MacKay, The Angel of Charleston: Grace Higgens, Housekeeper to the Bloomsbury Group {noticed on dovegreyreader scribbles} 
• Margaret MacMillan, Women of the Raj:  the mothers, wives and daughters of the British Empire in India 
• Myra MacPherson, The scarlet sisters : sex, suffrage, and scandal in the Gilded Age
• Mary Sperling McAuliffe, Twilight of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of Picasso, Stravinsky, Proust, Renault, Marie Curie, Gertrude Stein, and Their Friends Through the Great War  
• Fiona McCarthy, The last curtsey
• John McWhorter, Words on the move {noticed here}
• Hilary Macaskill, Agatha Christie at Home 
• David Malouf, The Happy Life:  the search for contentment in the modern world ;-)
• William J. Mann, The wars of the Roosevelts
• Suzanne Mars, ed., Meanwhile there are letters:  the correspondence of Eudora Welty and Ross Macdonald
• Megan Marshall, The Peabody Sisters and Margaret Fuller:  a new American life 
• Emily Midorikawa, A Secret Sisterhood:  the literary friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot and Virginia Woolf {October}
• Robert Milder, Hawthorne's Habitations:  A Literary Life
• Nancy Milford, Savage Beauty:  the life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
• Andy Miller, The Year of Reading Dangerously {recommended by Frances}
• Jessica Mitford, Hons and rebels {recommended by Darlene}
• Mary Russell Mitford, Our Village {or is this fiction? not quite sure}
• Wendy Moffat, A great unrecorded history : a new life of E.M. Forster 
• Wendy Moore, Wedlock : the true story of the disastrous marriage and remarkable divorce of Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore 
• Ethan Mordden, The Guest List:  how Manhattan defined American sophistication from the Algonquin Round Table to Truman Capote's ball 
• Caroline Morehead, Dancing to the Precipice: The Life of Lucie de la Tour du Pin, Eyewitness to an Era {A}
• Ann Morgan, Reading the World:  Confessions of a Literary Traveler {a.k.a. The World Between Two Covers:  Reading the Globe, but the UK edition has a much more appealing title!} {noticed on Cornflower Books}
• Charlotte Mosley, ed., Love From Nancy: The Letters of Nancy Mitford and The Mitfords:  letters between six sisters {recommended on Cornflower Books}
• Frances Mossiker, Madame de Sevigne:  a life and letters
• Siddhartha Mukherjee, The emperor of all maladies:  a biography of cancer
• Paul Thomas Murphy, Shooting Victoria:  Madness, Mayhem, and the Rebirth of the British Monarchy and Pretty Jane and the Viper of Kidbrooke Lane
• Venetia Murray, An elegant madness: high society in Regency England 
• Jeffrey Myers, Robert Lowell in love
• Lucy Newlyn, William and Dorothy Wordsworth:  all in each other {M}
• Beverly Nichols, Green grows the city {recommended on Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings}
• Juliet Nicholson, A house full of daughters {B}
• Virginia Nicholson, Singled out : how two million British women survived without men after the First World War; Millions Like Us; and Perfect wives in ideal homes: the story of women in the 1950s {recommended by Claire} {A}
• Joan Russell Noble, Recollections of Virginia Woolf by her contemporaries {B}
• Patricia O'Toole, The Five of Hearts:  An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends, 1880-1918
• Michael Paterson, A Brief Guide to Private Life in Britain's Stately Homes 
• Stanley Plumly, The Immortal Evening:  a legendary dinner with Keats, Wordsworth and Lamb 
• Jean Lucey Pratt, A Notable Woman:  the romantic journals of Jean Lucey Pratt {recommended by Kate Macdonald}
• Marcel Proust {Lydia Davis, translator}, Letters to his neighbor {May}
• Teresa Ransom, Fanny Trollope:  A Remarkable Life
• Helen Rappaport, Beautiful for ever:  Madame Rachel of Bond Street - cosmetician, con-artist and blackmailer; A Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert, and the Death That Changed the British Monarchy; Four Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses;and Caught in the Revolution:  Petrograd, Russia, 1917 {February} 
• Claudia Renton, Those Wild Wyndhams: Three Sisters At The Heart Of Power 
• Bronwen Riley, The edge of the Empire:a journey to Britannia : from the heart of Rome to Hadrian's Wall {recommended in the NYT Book Review}
• Eric Ripert, 32 yolks
• Carol Eron Rizzoli, The House at Royal Oak 
• Geraldine Roberts, The angel and the cad:  love, loss and scandal in Regency England
• Katie Roiphe, Uncommon arrangements:  seven marriages {B, A} and The violet hour:  great writers at the end {B}
• Padraig Rooney, The gilded chalet:  off piste in literary Switzerland {noticed on Vulpes Libris} 
• Phyllis Rose, The Shelf {recommended on Stuck in a Book}
• Virginia Rounding, Alix and Nicky:  the passion of the last tsar and tsarina 
• Anne Boyd Roux, Constance Fenimore Woolson:  portrait of a lady novelist
• Miranda Seymour, Mary Shelley {M}
• Laura Shapiro, What she ate:  six remarkable women and the food that tells their stories {July}
• Michael Sims, The story of Charlotte's Web : E.B. White's eccentric life in nature and the birth of an American classic 
• Michael Shelden, Melville in love 
• John Simpson, The word detective:  searching for the meaning of it all at the Oxford English Dictionary {B}
• Kathryn Smith, The Gatekeeper: Missy LeHand, FDR, and the Untold Story of the Partnership That Defined a Presidency 
• Mary Soames, A Daughter's Tale: The Memoir of Winston Churchill's Youngest Child 
• Julie Speedle, Wonderful Sphinx:  a biography of Ada Leverson
• Paul Spicer, The Temptress: The Scandalous Life of Alice de Janze and the Mysterious Death of Lord Erroll 
• Kathleen Spivack, With Robert Lowell and his Circle 
• Kory Stamper, Word by word:  the secret life of dictionaries {March}
• Barbara Strauch, The secret life of the grown-up brain : the surprising talents of the middle-aged mind 
• Roy Strong, A Country Life {recommended by Claire} {A}
• Sarah Payne Stuart, Perfectly miserable : guilt, God and real estate in a small town
• Daniel Sutherland, Whistler:  A life for art's sake
• Ben Tarnoff, The Bohemians
• Emma Tennant, Strangers:  a family romance
• Gillian Tindall, Three houses, many lives {noticed on Dovegreyreader scribbles}; Célestine: voices from a French village; and  The house by the Thames
• Anna Thomasson, A Curious Friendship {recommended everywhere!}
• Laura Thompson, Take six girls:  the lives of the Mitford sisters
• Adrian Tinniswood, The long weekend:  life in the English country house, 1918-1939 {noted by Lyn} 
• Colm Toibin, On Elizabeth Bishop (Writers on writers) 
• Claire Tomalin, Thomas Hardy 
• Frank Trentmann, Empire of Things:  how we became a world of consumers, from the fifteenth century to the twenty-first
• Jenny Uglow, In These Times: Living in Britain Through Napoleon’s Wars {noticed on Shiny New Books no. 4}
• Amanda Vickery, Behind closed doors : at home in Georgian England 
• Wayne A. Wiegand, Part of our lives:  a people's history of the American public library {recommended by Frances}
• Katie Whitaker, Mad Madge:  the extraordinary life of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle {M, B}
• Kate Williams, Ambition and Desire: The Dangerous Life of Josephine Bonaparte
• Bee Wilson, First bite:  how we learn to eat 
• Frances Wilson, The ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth : a life 
• Ilyon Woo, The Great Divorce: A Nineteenth-Century Mother's Extraordinary Fight against Her Husband, the Shakers, and Her Times
• Marilyn Yalom and Theresa Donovan Brown, The social sex:  a history of female friendship, noticed in The New York Times Book Review

Fiction

• Helen Ashton, Parson Austen's daughter 
• Camille Aubray, Cooking for Picasso {B}
• Julianna Baggott, Harriet Wolf's Seventh Book of Wonders  
• Sally Beauman, The Visitors
• Mark Beauregarde, The whale:  a love story
• Jill Bialosky, The Prize {recommended on LitHub}
• Alain de Botton, The course of love
• Gregoire Bouillier, The Mystery Guest
• Ann Bridge, Julia Probyn novels (recommended by Fleur} and Peking Picnic {recommended on EmilyBooks}
• Elizabeth Buchan, Daughters and The New Mrs. Clifton 
• A.S. Byatt, The Biographer's Tale {noticed on Nonsuch Book}
• Willa Cather, The professor's house {recommended by Ali}
• Clare Clark, We that are left
• Janice Clark, The Rathbones
• Lynn Cullen, Twain's end
• Jill Dawson, The tell-tale heart {noticed on Dovegreyreader Scribbles}, The Great Lover and The Crime Writer {both noticed on A life in books}
• Louis de Bernieres, The dust that falls from dreams and Notwithstanding
• Marisa de los Santos, The precious one
• Joyce Dennys, Henrietta's War and Henrietta Sees it Through
• E.A. Dinely, The Death of Lyndon Wilder (recommended by Fleur}
• Margaret Drabble, The Seven Sisters
• Kimberly Elkins, What is visible
• Lyndsay Faye, Jane Steele {noticed on LibraryReads}
• Rachel Ferguson, The Brontes Went to Woolworths
• Katie Fforde, Summer of love, A French affair, and Recipe for  Love {M}
• Margaret Forster, Keeping the world away {noticed on Cornflower Books} and How to measure a cow {March}
• Jane Gardam, The Sidmouth Letters {noticed on The Captive Reader}and Faith Fox {recommended by Harriet Devine}
• Maggie Gee, Virginia Woolf in Manhattan {recommended on Shiny New Books}
• Stella Gibbons, Here be Dragons {recommended by Claire} and The Matchmaker {A}{recommended by Frances}
• Julia Glass, A house among the trees {B}
• Rumer Godden, A Fugue in Time {recommended by Jane}
• Allegra Goodman, The chalk artist {B}
• Elizabeth Goudge, The Rosemary Tree, The Scent of Water, and The Dean's Watch
• Laurie Graham, A Humble Companion, Gone with the Windsors {B} and The Grand Duchess of Nowhere {recommended on Shiny New Books}
• Deborah Harkness, The Book of Life
• Sheila Heti, Ticknor
• Georgette Heyer, A Civil Contract, The Talisman Ring {recommended by Claire}, An Infamous Army, and Devil's Cub and These Old Shades {noticed here}
• Mary Hocking, Good daughters
• Alan Hollinghurst, The stranger's child {noticed here}
• Anna Hope, Wake
• Elizabeth Jane Howard, All Change
• Judith Hooper, Alice in Bed {recommended on LitHub}
• Celia Imrie, Nice work (if you can get it) and Not quite nice
• Catharina Ingleman-Sundberg, The little old lady who broke all the rules {recommended in Shelf Awareness} {B)
• Sarah Orne Jewett, A Country Doctor {recommended by Lyn}
• Suzanne Johnson, The photographer's wife {B}
• Claire King, Everything love is {B}
• C.H.B. Kitchin, The auction sale {recommended by Fleur}{A}
• India Knight, Mutton {recommended on Oddments and snippets}
• Harriet Lane, Alys, Always {recommended on Cornflower Books} {A}
• Antoine Laurain, French Rhapsody 
• Richard Liebmann-Smith, The James brothers:  a novel account of four desperate brothers
• Joanne Limburg, A want of kindness {noticed in the NYT Book Review}
• Elinor Lipman, The pursuit of Alice Thrift and The  family man
• Penelope Lively, Family album, How it all began and Consequences 
• Margot Livesey, Banishing Verona
• Rose Macaulay, Dangerous Ages and The World My Wilderness {recommended here}
• Denis Mackail, Upside-Down; or, Love Among the Ruins {noticed on Geranium Cat's Bookshelf), Tales from Greenery Street, and Ian and Felicity
• Elizabeth Maguire, The open door {noticed here}
• Oriel Malet, The green leaves of summer {A}
• Anna Maxted, Rich again
• Alexander McCall Smith, A Distant View of Everything {July}
• Sophie McManus, The Unfortunates
• Claire Messud, The emperor's children {recommended by JoAnn}
• Livi Michael, Succession {noticed in The New York Times Book Review}
• Francesca Miralles, Love in lowercase
• Clare Morgan, A Book for All and None {noticed on Cornflower Books}
• Edith Nesbit, The Lark and The Red House {A} {recommended by Harriet Devine}
• Christopher Nicholson, Winter {noticed in The New York Times Book Review}
• Tasmina Perry, The proposal
• Max Porter, Grief is the thing with feathers {B}
• Alexandra Potter, The two lives of Miss Charlotte Merryweather
• Bee Ridgway, The River of No Return
• Lucy Ribchester, The Hourglass Factory {M} and The Amber Shadows
• Lucinda Riley, The midnight rose
• Victoria Roberts, After the Fall {noticed here}
• Erika Robuck, The House of Hawthorne
• Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera, The Awakening of Miss Prim
• Dominic Smith, The last painting of Sara de Vos
• Natasha Solomons, Mr. Rosenblum dreams in English. The House at Tyneford and The Song of Hartgrove Hall {a.k.a. The Song Collector, recommended by Claire}
• D.E. Stevenson, Bel Lamington and Fletchers End, The Young Clementina {recommended by Fleur}, and Mrs. Tim of the Regiment
• Elizabeth Tallent, Mendocino Fire:  stories {A}
• Emma Tennant, The Beautiful Child {noticed on Cornflower Books} {M} and Felony {A}
• Chantal Thomas, The exchange of princesses {M}
• Rosie Thomas, Lovers and newcomers {B}
• Sophia Tobin, The Widow's Confession {noticed on Shiny New Books no. 4}
• Colm Toibin, The Master
• Amor Towles, The Rules of Civility {recommended by JoAnn}
• Barbara Trapido, Sex and Stravinsky {recommended on Oddments and snippets}
• Joanna Trollope, Balancing Act 
• Norah Vincent, Adeline:  a novel of Virginia Woolf  {noticed on A Work in Progress}
• Menna von Praag, The house at the end of Hope Street
• Natasha Walter, A quiet life
• Louise Walters, Mrs. Sinclair's Suitcase {recommended by Fleur}
• Katherine Webb, The misbegotten {recommended by Fleur}
• Weike Wang, Chemistry
• Rebecca West, The Fountain Overflows {recommended here}
• Madeleine Wickham, A Desirable Residence
• Lauren Willig, Pink Carnation series 
• A.N. Wilson, The Potter's Hand {recommended by Dovegreyreader}
• P.G. Wodehouse, Mulliner Nights {noted on Cornflower Books} and Aunts aren't gentlemen {M}
• Susan M. Wyler, Solsbury Hill

Mysteries

• Rennie Airth, River of Darkness, The Blood-Dimmed Tide, The Dead of Winter and The Reckoning {Inspector John Madden}
• Tasha Alexander, Dangerous to Know, A Crimson Warning, Death in the Floating City, The Adventuress and The Counterfeit Heiress 
• Margery Allingham,The White Cottage Mystery {recommended on Mirabile Dictu}
• Sally Andrew, Recipes for love and murder
• Robert Barnard, The case of the missing Bronte and A little local murder {recommended on Random Jottings}
• Lauren Belfer, A fierce radiance
• Harry Bingham, Lovfe Story, with Murders
• Nicholas Blake, A question of proof and Thou shell of death {recommended by A Desperate Reader}
• Alam Bradley, The grave's a fine and private place {January}
• William Brodrick, the Father Anselm mysteries {noticed on Cornflower Books}
• Christopher Brookmyre, Black Widow {M}
• Fabrice Bourland, The Baker Street Phantom and The Dream Killer of Paris
• Kenneth Cameron, The Bohemian Girl
• Jayne Casey, The Burning
• C.S. Challinor, Christmas Is Murder, Murder of the Bride and other Rex Graves mysteries {noticed on Bas Bleu}
• Joanna Challis, Peril at Somner House and The Villa of Death
• Karen Charlton, The Heiress of Linn Hagh and The San Pareil Mystery
• Barbara Clevely, Joe Sandilands series
• Edmund Crispin, The gilded fly and The moving toyshop
• Oscar de Muriel, The strings of time {recommended in the NYT Book Review} and A fever in the blood
• Carola Dunn, Manna from Hades, A Colourful Death, The Valley of the Shadow {The Cornish Mysteries} and Heirs of the Body
• Elizabeth Daly, the Henry Gamadge mysteries {noticed on Bas Bleu}
• David Dickinson, Goodnight sweet prince,, Death and the Jubilee (and later books in series)
• Patricia Duncker, The strange case of the composer and his judge
• Martin Edwards, Take my breath away
• Marjorie Eccles, Last nocturne and Broken music {and later books in Herbert Reardon series}
• Kate Ellis, A Painted Doom (and later books)
• Lyndsay Faye, The Gods of Gotham, Seven for a Secret {recommended on She Reads Novels} and The Fatal Flame
• Nicci French, Friday on My Mind: A Frieda Klein Mystery 
• Tana French, Into the Woods {recommended by JoAnn}
• Ann Granger, Mud, Muck and Dead Things and Rack, Ruin and Murder (Campbell and Carter mysteries)
• Martha Grimes, Dust and The black cat 
• Georgette Heyer, The Unfinished Clue
• Suzette Hill, Reverend Oughterard mysteries
• Hazel Holt, Mrs. Malory and death in practice, Mrs. Malory and the silent killer, Mrs. Malory and no cure for death, Mrs. Malory and a death in the family, Mrs. Malory and a time to die and Leonora {A}
• M.R.C. Kasasian, The Curse of the House of Fockett, The Mangle Street Murders, and Death Descends on Saturn Villa
• Christobel Kent, The Drowning River,  A Murder in Tuscany and The Killing Room
• Laurie R. King, Dreaming Spies and The Murder of Mary Russell 
• C.H.B. Kitchin, Death of my aunt {author recommended by Fleur}
• Mary Kowal, Shades of Milk and Honey {recommended by Claire}
• Camilla Lackberg, The Ice Princess and The Drowning 
• G.M.Malliet, The Haunted Season and Devil's Breath 
• David Mark, Taking pity
• Edward Marston, Peril on the royal train
• Val McDermid, Trick of the Dark
• Jill McGown, Murder at the Old Vicarage {M}
• Jane McLaughlin, A nice place to die
• Katharine McMahon, The Crimson Rooms and The Woman in the Picture
• Frédérique Molay, Crossing the Line
• Martin O'Brien, Inspector Jacquot mysteries {recommended on Random Jottings}
• Cuyler Overholt, A deadly affection {M}
• Louise Penny, How the Light Gets in, The Long Way Home,  The Nature of the Beast,  A Great Reckoning and Glass Houses (August)
• Anne Perry, An Echo of Murder {September} 
• Ruth Rendell, Dark Corners 
• Mike Ripley, Mr. Campion's Fault
• Peter Robinson, Sleeping in the Ground {August}
• Harriet Rutland, Knock, Murderer, Knock {recommended by Jane} and Bleeding Hooks
• Nicola Slade, The Dead Queen's Garden
• Donald Smith, The constable's tale {noticed in The New York Times Book Review}
• Susie Steiner, Homecoming
• Peter Swanson, The kind worth killing for and Her every fear {recommended by Harriet Devine}{M}
• Josephine Tey, The man in the queue {recommended by Danielle}
• Sherry Thomas, A study in scarlet women
• Charles Todd, Hunting Shadows and A Fine Summer's Day{Inspector Rutledge}  
• L.C. Tyler, The herring-seller's apprentice and the next four Ethelred Tresidder and Elsie Thirkettle mysteries {recommended by Fleur}
• Fred Vargas, An Uncertain Place and The Ghost Riders of Ordebec
• Louise Welsh, Naming the Bones {noticed oPeter n Bas Bleu}
• Andrew Wilson, A talent for murder {July}
• Laura Wilson, Stratton's War and An Empty Death

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