After the success of last week’s “Which Victoria Holt?” query, I’m curious to know whether anyone else has any book requests. Is there a specific author you’ve been meaning to try, but don’t know where to start? Or a plot type of which you’d like to read more? Let me know and I’ll run an…

I am ridiculously thrilled that Joanna Bourne’s The Black Hawk, one of my favorite books of 2011, won the RITA for Best Historical this past weekend. If you like The Black Hawk, you’ll probably like…. — The ultimate Napoleonic spy novel, Baroness Orczy’s The Scarlet Pimpernel; — Joanna Bourne’s earlier books: The Spymaster’s Lady, My…

Happy news! The audio version of The Secret History of the Pink Carnation just came in #4 in All About Romance’s Favorite Romance Audiobook poll. I have to confess, I haven’t listened to an audio book since a friend gave me a Nancy Drew novel on cassette for my birthday back in second grade. I…

Yes, yes, we’ve all heard of Fifty Shades and the rise of the erotic romance. But what of those love stories that don’t spell it all out in anatomical detail? If you like “closed door” romance, you’ll probably like…. — Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind, still the champion after all these years. There’s nothing…

Since I have The Ashford Affair very much on the brain right now, if you like books set in Kenya, you’ll probably like…. — M.M. Kaye’s Death in Kenya, a 1950s set murder mystery; — Along similar lines, Elpeth Huxley’s Murder on Safari and Murder at Government House, classic 1930s mysteries by the Kenya-bred British…

I was recently taken on a tour of the New York Yacht Club, one of the great, Gilded Age clubhouses of New York. There are more of those than one would think left in the city, tucked away. It got me thinking about the era they represent– and, of course, books depicting that era. If…

Last week, I listed some of my favorite Scottish-set historical novels. This week we’re going modern. (Well, modern as in post World War II.) If you like novels set in modern Scotland, you’ll probably like…. — Elizabeth Peter’s Legend in Green Velvet, in which a Scotland-obsessed American gets drawn into a rather bizarre intrigue involving…

Since I’m honeymooning in Scotland (and like to theme read on vacations) this week’s If You Like is Scotland-set books. Which, it turns out, can be a very, very broad category. So I’ve divided it up into two. This week’s will be historical set and next week will be modern (including mystery/thriller). If you like…

In tomorrow’s Teaser Tuesday, I talk about some of the inspiration for The Ashford Affair, my 1920s book. That got me thinking, of course, about my favorite novels of the 1920s and 30s, since I spent a lot of time reading various writers of the period in order to get the tone right for Ashford.…