Louis Bayard

• Oct-2003
• / Suspense
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It's the Christmas season, and Mr. Timothy Cratchit, not the pious child the world thought he was, has just buried his father. He's also struggling to bury his past as a cripple and shed his financial ties to his benevolent "Uncle" Ebenezer by los...

• Jun-2006
• / Suspense
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From the critically acclaimed author of Mr. Timothy comes an ingenious tale of murder and revenge, featuring a retired New York City detective and a young cadet named Edgar Allan Poe. At West Point Academy in 1830, the calm of an October evening ...

• Sep-2008
• / Historical
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Vidocq. The name strikes terror in the Parisian underworld of 1818. As founder and chief of a newly created plainclothes police force, Vidocq has used his mastery of disguise and surveillance to capture some of France's most notorious and elusive cri...

• Apr-2011
• / Thriller
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King James I has just assumed the throne and Thomas Harriot, known as England's Galileo, ponders the universe from his modest home on his friend's estate. Harriot, the mathematician, astronomer, ethnographer, and translator, is also a member of a gro...

• Mar-2014
• / Historical
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A reimagining of Teddy and Kermit Roosevelt’s ill-fated 1914 Amazon expedition -- a psychological twist on the smart historical thriller that first put Louis Bayard on the map 1914. Brazil’s Rio da Dúvida, the River of Doubt. Plagued by hunge...

• Jul-2016
• / General Fiction
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With her mama recently dead and her pa sight unseen since birth, Amelia is suddenly in charge of her younger brother and sister―and of the family gas station. Harley Blevins, local king and emperor of Standard Oil, is in hot pursuit to clinch his f...

• Apr-2019
• / Historical
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“Riveting . . . Enticing.” -- The Washington Post “Exquisite.” -- People “A triumph of a novel.” -- Bookreporter.com “Rich, fascinating, and romantic.” -- NewsdayA Washington Post Bestseller * An Indie Next Pick * An App...

• Sep-2021
• / General Fiction
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• Jun-2022
• / Historical
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This "absolutely irresistible" historical romance imagines the courtship between Jacqueline Bouvier and the future American president she loved (People).​ In 1951, former debutante Jacqueline Bouvier is hard at work as the Inquiring Camera Girl for...

• Sep-2024
• / Historical
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In this singularly powerful novel, bestselling author Louis Bayard brings Oscar Wilde’s wife Constance and two sons out from the shadows of history and creates a vivid and poignant story of secrets, loss, and love. "Wonderfully researched, beautifu...