Martha Hall Kelly is the
New York Times bestselling author of
Lilac Girls and
Lost Roses. She lives in Connecticut, where she spends her days filling legal pads with stories and reading World War II books.
Kelly's new novel is
Sunflower Sisters.
At CrimeReads she tagged
nine favorite historical mysteries in which setting plays a significant part, including:
Opium and Absinthe by Lydia Kang
New York City, 1899. Tillie Pembroke’s sister lies dead, her body drained of blood and with two puncture wounds on her neck. 
Bram Stoker’s new novel, Dracula, has just been published, and Tillie’s imagination leaps to the impossible: the murderer is a vampire. But it can’t be—can it? Tillie won’t rest until she figures out the mystery of her sister’s death and can’t bring herself to believe vampires exist. But with the hysteria surrounding her sister’s death, the continued vampiric slayings, and her opium addiction looming, it becomes difficult for her to know what’s real—or whether she can trust those closest to her.
Read about
another entry on the list.
The Page 69 Test: Opium and Absinthe.
Q&A with Lydia Kang (July 2020).
--Marshal Zeringue
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