Lauren Belfer Books in Order

In 1901 Buffalo, school headmistress Louisa Barrett discovers evidence of a murder connected to Niagara Falls' power industry. Further violence pulls her into a struggle among politicians and industrialists while threatening a secret of her own.

Photographer Claire Shipley covers penicillin research in wartime New York, where the prospect of saving lives becomes intensely personal. Her romance with a physician unfolds amid corporate competition, espionage, and a suspicious death at the research institute.

Finding a music manuscript taken from Germany during World War II, Susanna Kessler investigates its origins. Her search intertwines with an eighteenth-century musician's story and the troubling legacy of a fictional Bach cantata.

Staying at an English manor with her son, Hannah Larson hopes for distance from her troubled marriage. When he discovers a woman's skeleton in a sealed wing, Hannah investigates historical records and the lives of the house's earlier women.