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10 best books like A Spear of Summer Grass (Deanna Raybourn): Song of Scarabaeus, An Inquiry Into Love and Death, The Red Lily Crown: A Novel of Medici Florence, The Ashford Affair, India Black and the Gentleman Thief, Waking Up Dead, The Sleeping Partner, A Murder at Rosamund's Gate, Collision, Secrets of a Lady

Song of Scarabaeus
AuthorSara Creasy
ISBN0061934739
Trained since childhood in advanced biocyph seed technology by the all-powerful Crib empire, Edie's mission is to terraform alien worlds while her masters bleed the outlawed Fringe populations dry. When renegade mercenaries kidnap Edie, she's not entirely sure it's a bad thing . . . until they leash...
An Inquiry Into Love and Death
AuthorSimone St. James
ISBN0451239253
After her ghost-hunting uncle Toby dies, Oxford student Jillian must drive to the seaside village of Rothewell to pack up his belongings. Almost immediately, terrifying events convince Jillian that an angry spirit is trying to enter the house. Is it Walking John, the two-hundred-year-old ghost...
The Red Lily Crown: A Novel of Medici Florence
AuthorElizabeth Loupas
ISBN0451418875
Elizabeth Loupas returns with her most ambitious historical novel yet, a story of intrigue, passion, and murder in the Medici Court...

April, 1574, Florence, Italy. Grand Duke Cosimo de’ Medici lies dying. The city is paralyzed with dread, for the next man to wear the red lily crown will...
The Ashford Affair
AuthorLauren Willig
ISBN1250014492
New York Times bestselling author Lauren Willig "spins a web of lust, power and loss" (Kate Alcott) that is by turns epic and intimate, transporting and page-turning 

As a lawyer in a large Manhattan firm, just shy of making partner, Clementine Evans has finally achieved almost everything...
India Black and the Gentleman Thief
AuthorCarol K. Carr
ISBN0425262480
India Black double life operating a high-class brothel and running high-stakes espionage for Her Majesty’s government can take its toll. But there’s no rest for the weary — particularly when an international conspiracy comes knocking…

India Black is one of Victorian London’s...
Waking Up Dead
AuthorMargo Bond Collins
When Dallas resident Callie Taylor died young, she expected to go to Heaven, or maybe Hell. Instead, she met her fate early thanks to a creep with a knife and a mommy complex. Now she's witnessed another murder, and she's not about to let this one go. She's determined to help solve it before an innocent man...
The Sleeping Partner
AuthorMadeleine E. Robins
ISBN0984436251
The Sleeping Partner heralds the return of the serene and self-reliant Miss Sarah Tolerance, Fallen Woman and Agent of Inquiry. This time, Miss Tolerance is seeking not a missing trinket or the solution to a crime, but a living person - a young gentlewoman who has vanished from under her wealthy family's...
A Murder at Rosamund's Gate
AuthorSusanna Calkins
ISBN1250007909
For Lucy Campion, a seventeenth-century English chambermaid serving in the household of the local magistrate, life is an endless repetition of polishing pewter, emptying chamber pots, and dealing with other household chores until a fellow servant is ruthlessly killed, and someone close to Lucy...
Collision
AuthorBerinn Rae
ISBN1440552398
Sienna Wolfe knows it’s going to be an interesting day when a man with golden skin and strange tattoos crashes in her backyard… and ends up tied to her bedposts. She likes her life just the way it is – simple, easy, relaxed. But when the gorgeous new alien in her life asks for her help in an inter-galactic...
Secrets of a Lady
AuthorTracy Grant
ISBN0061284882
November 1819

The description below is from the original publication. The editions published after 2007 include selected correspondence between various characters as "author insights" which give further character and plot development.

With DAUGHTER OF THE GAME, Tracy Grant...
Death in the Floating City
AuthorTasha Alexander
ISBN0312661762
The Huffington Post calls "Tears of Pearl" author Tasha Alexander "one to watch--and read" and her new Lady Emily mystery set in Venice proves it.

Years ago, Emily's childhood nemesis, Emma Callum, scandalized polite society when she eloped to Venice with an Italian count. But now her father-in-law...
In the Black
AuthorSheryl Nantus
Book one of Tales from the Edge

When Sam Keller left the military, she ran to the far end of the galaxy. Now she captains the Bonnie Belle, a spaceship full of courtesans who bring a little pleasure to hard-up men on mining colonies. When one of her girls turns up dead, it's Sam's job to find out who...
Murder on Black Friday
AuthorP.B. Ryan
Librarian's Note: this is an alternate cover edition - ASIN: B003UV98QI

On Sept. 24, 1869, the gold market crumbles, and fortunes are lost in a matter of minutes. When two of Boston’s most prominent men are found dead on Wall Street’s first “Black Friday,” it’s widely assumed that...
Summerset Abbey
AuthorT.J. Brown
ISBN1451698984
1913: In a sprawling manor on the outskirts of London, three young women seek to fulfill their destinies and desires amidst the unspoken rules of society and the distant rumblings of war. . . .

Rowena Buxton

Sir Philip Buxton raised three girls into beautiful and capable young women...
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