published posthumously

Oh, she's dead? Well, she was getting up there. I always enjoyed the anthropology books she wrote under her real name, Barbara Mertz. She also wrote decent mysteries--though more typical of the genre of "woman in peril solves mystery and finds love"--under the name Barbara Michaels. But I've always like her versions better than others.

Thanks—lady doctor sounds totally up my alley. And I definitely enjoyed Study in Scarlet Women and the sequel.

Connie - Yes, alas. She died in 2013. The last book, "The Painted Queen", was completed by Joan Hess and I found it pretty much unreadable. The characters were off and the villains of the week were just annoying.

Anne Perry's Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series, set in Victorian London, is also a lot of fun, especially in the beginning. And her William Monk series is also good, and features an aristocratically born woman named Hester who becomes a nurse during the Crimean War.

I loved the Benjamin January books.

The characters were off and the villains of the week were just annoying.

I stopped reading when Sethos became the focus, though I was very gratified with how Ramses and Nefret worked out.

The last book, "The Painted Queen", was completed by Joan Hess and I found it pretty much unreadable.

Was it bad? I haven't read it. Dang.

I'm afraid so, Steph. Everyone was pretty much a caricature of themselves. No subtlety.

Meara, I'm on the phone so limited typing, but Death by Silver and its sequel are Victorian urban fantasy and m/m.

Toddson, I really like the Benjamin January books, but I can't binge read them. The world he lives in is so hard and Hambly doesn't sugarcoat it. Not just the horrors of slavery and how he has to be so careful all the time around white people, but the constant presence of diseases like typhoid and cholera and all the other aspects of life in the 1830s.

The Vicky Bliss series and the Jaqueline Kirby series by Elizabeth Peters. Both are fun.