Sherry Thomas, Author . Bantam $6.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-440-24431-8
Deft plotting and sparkling characters mark this superior debut historical. Camden Saybrook, Lord Tremaine, returns to late 19th-century England to confront his wife, Gigi, about her petition for divorce. Still bitter from Gigi's machinations...
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Sherry Thomas, Author . Bantam $6.99 (404p) ISBN 978-0-440-24432-5
A Cinderella story with a compelling culinary twist, Thomas's scrumptious Victorian confection (after Private Arrangements
) proves impossible to resist. Madame Verity Durant works for Bertram “Bertie” Somerset at his estate,...
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Sherry Thomas, Author Bantam 7.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-553-59244-3
Thomas employs grand misunderstanding (as she did in 2008’s Private Arrangements) to motivate this Victorian romance, which is replete with perfect period touches. The marquess of Vere fakes stupidity so no one will suspect he’s investigating Edmund
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Sherry Thomas. Berkley, $7.99 mass market (304p) ISBN 978-0-425-25087-7
The second in Thomas’s Fitzhugh romance trilogy is set against the realism of 19th-century English arranged marriages. To fill the empty coffers of his family’s estate, Lord Fitzhugh must marry Millie Graves, a prosperous manufacturer’s daughter....
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Sherry Thomas. Berkley Sensation, $7.99 mass market (304p) ISBN 978-0-425-25102-7
The final installment in Thomas's Fitzhugh trilogy (after Ravishing the Heiress) provides a sizzling series conclusion as romance ignites between an independent businesswoman and a nobleman. Helena Fitzhugh, sister of an earl, is a college-educated...
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Sherry Thomas. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, $17.99 (480p) ISBN 978-0-06-220729-6
Thomas, who’s built a strong reputation in historical romance, turns to YA fantasy with aplomb in the first installment of the Elemental Trilogy. Sixteen-year-old Iolanthe Seabourne is an elemental mage with a gift for fire; she has trained in...
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Sherry Thomas. Berkley, $7.99 mass market (304p) ISBN 978-0-425-26888-9
Thomas (Tempting the Bride) emphasizes the pitfalls of the aristocratic marriage bargaining game in Victorian England with this stellar trilogy launch. Felix Rivendale, Lord Wrenworth, is often called the Ideal Gentleman for his looks, wealth, and...
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Sherry Thomas. Berkley, $15 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-0-425-28140-6
Charlotte Holmes, the independent-minded, upper-class heroine of this promising series launch set in 1886 England from Thomas (My Beautiful Enemy), has no wish to be married off like her older sisters and relegated to second-class status for the...
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Sherry Thomas. Berkley, $15 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-0-425-28141-3
The first in Thomas’s Lady Sherlock series, A Study in Scarlet Women (2016), offered a clever a premise: that Sherlock Holmes is a fabrication created by Miss Charlotte Holmes and her coterie of accomplices, including Mrs. Watson, in order to allow...
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Sherry Thomas. Berkley, $15 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-0-425-28142-0
Sherlockians who also love romance novels will best appreciate Thomas’s third Lady Sherlock mystery set in Victorian England (after 2017’s A Conspiracy in Belgravia). Charlotte Holmes works as the world’s only consulting detective under the name...
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Sherry Thomas. Berkley, $16 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-0-451-49247-0
In Thomas’s fun fourth Lady Sherlock mystery (after 2018’s The Hollow of Fear), Charlotte Holmes, who makes her living “as oracle to her fictional brother Sherlock,” agrees to try to save the Maharani of Ajmer from a blackmailer who has hidden...
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Sherry Thomas. Tu, $19.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-62014-804-4
Rich cultural references, intricate political machinations, and thrilling Wuxia elements distinguish this deftly woven Mulan retelling by Thomas (The Immortal Heights), who was born and raised in China. Hua Mulan, who publicly assumes her deceased...
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Sherry Thomas. Berkley, $16 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-451-49249-4
A locked-room mystery drives Thomas’s entertaining if implausible fifth Lady Sherlock whodunit (after 2019’s The Art of Theft). When Scotland Yard’s Insp. Robert Treadles becomes the suspect in a double murder, his wife, Alice Treadles, consults...
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Sherry Thomas. Berkley, $16 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-0-593-20058-2
In Thomas’s appealing sixth Lady Sherlock mystery (after 2020’s Murder in Cold Street), brilliant private investigator Charlotte Holmes, who acts as an “oracle” on behalf of her fictional brother, Sherlock, has an appointment with a potential client,
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Sherry Thomas. Berkley, $17 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-0-593-20060-5
Set in 1887, Thomas’s routine seventh Lady Sherlock mystery (after 2021’s Miss Moriarty, I Presume?) finds Charlotte Holmes, who has pretended that there was a Sherlock Holmes whom she assisted while actually conducting the inquiries herself, still...
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