New York: St Martin's, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery novel set in 1676 in Restoration London, one which recreates the London of Pepys and Dryden and interweaves fact and fiction as it features spy-turned-playwright Aphra Behn. "King Charles is on his rocky throne, surrounded by a full complement of spies, lackeys, and mistresses. . .. Nell Gwyn, a longtime favorite, is also still on the scene when a poet-playwright friend, Aphra Behn, enlists her help in the tutelage of would-be actress Elizabeth Decker, mistress of the Earl of Rochester, for the leading part in her newest playa move Aphra hopes will improve her near-penniless state." 288 pp. ISBN: 0-312185987.

New York: St Martin's, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery novel set in 1676 in Restoration London, one which recreates the London of Pepys and Dryden and interweaves fact and fiction as it features spy-turned-playwright Aphra Behn. "King Charles is on his rocky throne, surrounded by a full complement of spies, lackeys, and mistresses. . .. Nell Gwyn, a longtime favorite, is also still on the scene when a poet-playwright friend, Aphra Behn, enlists her help in the tutelage of would-be actress Elizabeth Decker, mistress of the Earl of Rochester, for the leading part in her newest playa move Aphra hopes will improve her near-penniless state." 288 pp. ISBN: 0-312185987.

London: Victor Gollancz, Ltd., (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery novel set in 1676 in Restoration London, one which recreates the London of Pepys and Dryden and interweaves fact and fiction as it features spy-turned-playwright Aphra Behn. "King Charles is on his rocky throne, surrounded by a full complement of spies, lackeys, and mistresses. . .. Nell Gwyn, a longtime favorite, is also still on the scene when a poet-playwright friend, Aphra Behn, enlists her help in the tutelage of would-be actress Elizabeth Decker, mistress of the Earl of Rochester, for the leading part in her newest playa move Aphra hopes will improve her near-penniless state." 288 pp. ISBN: 0-575-061324.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2010. dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel by this authority on the seventeenth century British Navy, set in 1692 in Restoration England, where Cromwell is dead and Charles II has resumed the throne. 320 pp. plus the author's historical note. ISBN: 9780547382616.

New York: Crown, (2006.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third historical novel, set in Restoration England during the reign of Charles II, a prequel to her book "Through a Glass Darkly." 530 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 0-307-339912.

London: Allison & Busby, (2012). The sixth book in the series featuring architect Christopher Redmayne and the Puritan Constable Jonathan Bale, set in 1671 in Restoration London. 350 pp. ISBN: 9780749080778.

London: Allison & Busby, (2012). SIGNED - The fifth book in the series featuring architect Christopher Redmayne and the Puritan Constable Jonathan Bale, set in 1670 in Restoration London. 349 pp. ISBN: 9780749081775.