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Robert Brighton, award-winning author of immersive historical fiction, including The Avenging Angel Detective Agency™ Mysteries, is an authority on the Gilded Age, and a great believer that the Victorian era was anything but stuffy.

In his Avenging Angel Detective Agency Mysteries, Brighton exposes the turbulence of the era - its passions, dreams, and disasters - against a backdrop of careful research on the places, sights, sounds, and smells of the time.

When he is not walking the streets in the footsteps of the Avenging Angels, sniffing out unsolved mysteries, Brighton is an adventurer. He has traveled in more than 50 countries around the world, personally throwing himself into every situation his characters will face - from underground ru ...more

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Average rating: 4.17 · 265 ratings · 97 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Buffalo Butcher: Jack the Ripper in the Electric City 4.07 avg rating — 98 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Unsealing: Love, Lust, and Murder in the Gilded Age 3.93 avg rating — 100 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Murder in Ashwood: Scandals and Secrets in the Gilded Age 4.57 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2023 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Current of Darkness: Desire and Deceit in the Gilded Age 4.78 avg rating — 32 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Phantom of Forest Lawn: Romance and Redemption in the City of the Dead 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Robert Brighton and 1 other person liked Tony Siciliano's review of The Unsealing: Love, Lust, and Murder in the Gilded Age (The Avenging Angel Detective Agency™ Mysteries): "This is a sensational story filled with great writing, a story line that pulls the reader into a very different world (or maybe NOT so different world), with characters mostly loathsome yet somehow sympathetic. The reader is drawn by the thrill and e" Read more of this review »
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Robert Brighton and 4 other people liked Book Reviewer's review of The Unsealing: Love, Lust, and Murder in the Gilded Age: "The Unsealing by Robert Brighton is a riveting story that takes place from the 1880s to the early 1900s, around the earliest part of the twentieth century, in northern New York. It’s a quickly evolving period that involves coal mining, labor unrest, " Read more of this review »
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Robert Brighton and 1 other person liked Jenifer's review of The Unsealing: Love, Lust, and Murder in the Gilded Age: "Gripping novel from the misunderstood Gilded Age of America There are very few books I’ve read that I continue to turn over in my mind weeks after reading -Robert Brighton’s The Unsealing is at the top. From the first pages, which should provide an ac" Read more of this review »
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