I really liked the first Lace and Blade anthology, with a few caveats, when I read it earlier this year, but what less in love with this one. Which is sad, as it was the cover of this one that made me notice the anthologies ( Read more... )

This is a fantasy anthology that combines swords and sorcery with things like swashbuckling and highwaymen. It is, obviously, something I was meant to have ( Read more... )

Still dealing with the ramifications of Point of Honour, alternate-Regency era inquiry agent Sarah Tolerance is approached by an associate of a former client (who had, in fact, hired her to investigate the first man) to clear his sister of her husband’s murder. The deceased husband, we soon learn, had many unsavory habits, and may have been ( Read more... )

Ten years ago, Sarah Brereton, a young woman of quality, ran away with her brother’s fencing instructor. Her fencing instructor dead, she’s returned to England, and London, and set herself up as an inquiry agent, striving to avoid the normal (re: prostitution) fate of fallen women whose families won’t take them back.

This is an alternate Regency ( Read more... )