Louis Bayard

1951. Jacqueline Bouvier is hard at work as the Inquiring Camera Girl for a Washington newspaper. When she meets charismatic congressman Jack Kennedy at a Georgetown party, the two are soon flirting over secret phone calls, cocktails, and dinner dates. As Jack grows elusive and absent, she begins to question what life at his side would mean. Jackie turns to his best friend and confidant, Lem Billings, a closeted gay man who has made the Kennedy family...

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 is shattered by the discovery of a young cadet's body swinging from a rope just off the parade grounds. An apparent suicide is not unheard of in a harsh regimen like West Point's, but the next morning, an...

From the author of Courting Mr. Lincoln comes a different kind of Christmas story featuring a grown up Tiny Tim, this breathless flight through the teeming markets, shadowy passageways, and rolling brown fog of 1860s London would do Dickens proud for its surprising twists and turns, and its extraordinary heart. 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...

Vidocq. El nombre infunde terror en el bajo mundo parisino de 1818. Como fundador y director de un grupo de policías vestidos de civil de nueva creación, Vidocq ha utilizado su dominio del disfraz y la vigilancia para capturar a algunos de los criminales más famosos y escurridizos de Francia. Ahora está tras la pista de un misterio tentador, las andanzas del joven delfín Louis-Charles, el hijo de María Antonieta y Luis XVI. Héctor Carpentier,...