I'll look it up! And also those Regency mysteries, because I loved the Kate Ross ones.
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Amy. Have you read Tasha Alexander's Lady Emily mystery series? The first is called And Only to Deceive. It took a bit for me to really get into, but they are richly researched, set in a variety of places (and quite vividly so), and feature an intelligent female protagonist. They're set in the late 19th century.
More books to make note of!
Oh! I HAVE that book, Pix! I forgot I had gotten it on my Kindle a while back.
Cinnamon and Gunpowder looks great! It's got sort of a Big Fish vibe.
Why are you people giving such good recs when I'm doing the TBR Triple Dog Dare and can't read anything new until April Fools? It's a conspiracy!
Consuela, thanks for the link! I love Vernon's gardening essays and Digger comic. It's great to read another kind of work by her.
I got Hild for Christmas and am L O V I N G it. Nicola Griffith is such an evocative writer.
I've been enjoying the Sebastian St. Cyr mysteries too! And I liked the Kate Ross ones, just wish there'd been more.
Oooh, Hild. That's on my wishlist, after I get through at least 3 of the books I purchased in December. And the book JZ gave me. And both Richard II and Richard III. Actually, I just finished RII, but now I want to go back through and read the Arden annotations.
Speaking of getting through books - I bought the first Lymond, and I bounced off of it hard (to the point where I've not made it through the first chapter). I'm going to try again - maybe when I have time to read fiction that's not right before bed - but, yeah. I'm disappointed, because it seems that almost everyone here loves the Lymond Chronicles.
However, I will again rec Cold Magic by Kate Elliot. Quite delightful.