A literary tour de force of a detective's ceaseless hunt for an elusive criminal, By Gaslight moves from the diamond mines of South Africa to the battlefields of the Civil War, on a journey into a cityscape of grief, trust, and its breaking, where what we share can bind us even against our darker selves.

An “engaging” suspense novel about OSS chief clerk Louise Pearlie, whose new friendship with a war refugee sucks her into a life-threatening game of mafia bosses, Nazi spies, banished royalty, and Sicilian aristocracy (Booklist).

“Shaber brews a delightful mix of feminine wiles and real-life history that will keep readers turning the pages.” —Publishers Weekly

A collection of 16 short stories, some new, some published before, all together for the first time, featuring Tess Monaghan, New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman’s acclaimed private eye.

Anais Nin pens a lush, magical world where the characters of her imagination possess the most universal of desires and exceptional of talents. Among these provocative stories, a Hungarian adventurer seduces wealthy women then vanishes with their money; a veiled woman selects strangers from a chic restaurant for private trysts; and a Parisian hatmaker named Mathilde leaves her husband for the opium dens of Peru.

“A joyous display of the erotic imagination.” —The New York Times Book Review

When a Belgian beauty dies in the Congo, “sharp-eyed, sharp-tongued Dr. Mary Finney” is on the case in this “witty, well-written” mystery from 1950 (The New York Times).