The Wicked and the Just
10 best books like The Wicked and the Just (J. Anderson Coats): The Body at the Tower, The Traitor in the Tunnel, A Brief History of Montmaray, Sovay, The FitzOsbornes in Exile, The FitzOsbornes at War, The Gathering Storm, Perma Red, Dust Girl, How to Lead a Life of Crime
| Author | Y.S. Lee |
| ISBN | 0763649686 |
Now nearly a full-fledged member of the Agency, the all-female detective unit operating out of Miss Scrimshaw's Academy for Girls, Mary Quinn is back for another action-packed adventure. Disguised as a poor apprentice builder and a boy, she must brave the grimy underbelly of Victorian London - as...
| Author | Y.S. Lee |
| ISBN | 0763653160 |
Queen Victoria has a problem: there's a thief at work in Buckingham Palace. The Agency - the secret all-female detective unit - assigns quick-witted Mary Quinn to the case. Posing as a palace maid and fending off the attentions of the Prince of Wales are challenging enough, but when the prince witnesses...
A Brief History of Montmaray
| Author | Michelle Cooper |
| ISBN | 0375858644 |
Sophie FitzOsborne lives in a crumbling castle in the tiny island kingdom of Montmaray with her eccentric and impoverished royal family. When she receives a journal for her sixteenth birthday, Sophie decides to chronicle day-to-day life on the island. But this is 1936, and the news that trickles in...
| Author | Celia Rees |
| ISBN | 1599902036 |
It's England, 1783. When the rich and beautiful Sovay isn't sitting for portraits, she's donning a man's cloak and robbing travelers—in broad daylight. But in a time when political allegiances between France and England are strained, a rogue bandit is not the only thing travelers fear. Spies abound,...
| Author | Michelle Cooper |
| ISBN | 1741663741 |
Forced to leave their island kingdom, Sophie FitzOsborne and her eccentric family take shelter in England. Sophie's dreams of making her debut in shimmering ballgowns are finally coming true, but how can she enjoy her new life when they have all lost so much?
Aunt Charlotte is ruthless in her...
| Author | Michelle Cooper |
| ISBN | 0375970509 |
Michelle Cooper completes her heart-stealing epic drama of history and romance with The FitzOsbornes at War.
Sophie FitzOsborne and the royal family of Montmaray escaped their remote island home when the Nazis attacked. But as war breaks out in England and around the world, nowhere is safe....
| Author | Robin Bridges |
| ISBN | 0385740220 |
St. Petersburg, Russia, 1888. As she attends a whirl of glittering balls, royal debutante Katerina Alexandrovna, Duchess of Oldenburg, tries to hide a dark secret: she can raise the dead. No one knows. Not her family. Not the girls at her finishing school. Not the tsar or anyone in her aristocratic circle....
| Author | Debra Magpie Earling |
| ISBN | 0425190544 |
This is not a beautiful, uplifting story. This book is sorrow. It's one of the best things I've ever read.
Magpie Earling's writing is somehow lush and spare at the same time. She evokes moments and scenes so well, it felt like coming out of a dream when I put the book down.
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| Author | Sarah Zettel |
| ISBN | 0375869387 |
Callie LeRoux is choking on dust. It seeps through the cracks in the hotel that Callie and her mother run in Kansas. It’s slowly filling her lungs. Callie’s begged her mother to leave their town, like their neighbors have already done, but her mother refuses. She’s waiting for Callie’s long-gone...
How to Lead a Life of Crime
| Author | Kirsten Miller |
| ISBN | 1595145184 |
A meth dealer. A prostitute. A serial killer.
Anywhere else, they’d be vermin. At the Mandel Academy, they’re called prodigies. The most exclusive school in New York City has been training young criminals for over a century. Only the most ruthless students are allowed to graduate. The...
| Author | Susanne Dunlap |
| ISBN | 1599905868 |
Madame Campan’s Academie Nationale is one of the most celebrated schools in all of France, and her students are equally illustrious. Meet the impetuous Eliza Monroe - la belle Americaine - whose father will one day be named president of the United States. And Hortense de Beauharnais, Josephine Bonaparte’s...
