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Titles from Pemberley PressBlue Satan Mystery Series by Patricia Wynn:
In 1715 a conspiracy to restore the Crown to the Pretender, James Stuart, is about to erupt in rebellion. Falsely accused of murdering his own father, Gideon Fitzsimmons, Viscount St. Mars, must hide from the men who want to hang him, while trying to unmask his father's killer. Fortunately, he has one true-hearted friend, Hester Kean, his eyes and ears in the society he has lost. 
Back in England from his French estate, Gideon Fitzsimmons, Viscount St. Mars, discovers that Hester Kean has become entangled in a web of Jacobite spies. When one of James’s men is murdered at the opera, Gideon must choose between his duty to the Pretender and his concern for Mrs. Kean. Gideon--as the highwayman Blue Satan-- helps Hester solve a mystery that bears the mark of The Spider’s Touch. 
When Hester Kean's brother Jeremy is accused of the murder of a notorious bookseller in Fleet Street, she turns to the mysterious highwayman Blue Satan to help her prove her brother’s innocence. Together they uncover the secrets hidden in the ancient crypt of St. Dunstan’s. But when investigation turns up a Jacobite plot, St. Mars must again question his loyalty to a cause that is doomed to failure. Diana Spaulding Mystery Series by Kathy Lynn Emerson:
A horror author from Maine. His ghoulish mother and deranged brother. An acting troupe full of egotistical men and jealous women. These are the characters intrepid reporter Diana Spaulding must investigate as she tries to discover who killed two sister journalists in the daring era of "stunt-girl" Nellie Bly. 
Diana Spaulding, crime reporter for the New York Independent Intelligencer, learns that her father has been killed, and that her mother, Elmira Torrence, is accused of the murder. Though estranged from her parents, Diana puts aside her marriage plans and boards the first train to Denver to rush to her mother’s aid. More unpleasant surprises await her there, not the least of which is the profession her mother chose when her silver-baron husband turned her out on the street. 
In 1888, intrepid “girl-reporter” for the New York Independent Intelligencer Diana Spaulding travels incognito to rural New York to locate her mother’s estranged family. She finds that her temperamental Uncle Myron has not forgiven his sister and, spurred on by a crooked investor, is risking the Hotel Grant on a pipe dream. When reconstruction uncovers a ten-year-old skeleton, Diana must employ all her investigative skills to save her sensitive Uncle Howd from the hangman’s noose. 
While Diana Spaulding and her fiance Dr. Ben Northcote prepare for their long-delayed wedding, Ben is been secretly called to Keep Island, the property of his childhood friend, Graham Somener, to treat the workers on an archeological dig who have suddenly taken ill. Ben’s examination turns up poisoning, but the reclusive Graham refuses to call in the authorities. When one of the men is murdered, Diana must help Ben uncover the killer while their eccentric mothers quarrel over wedding details. Deadly Past Mystery Series by Marion Moore Hill:
In 1789, American Revolutionary Nathan Henry imitates his neighbor and hero, Benjamin Franklin, by creating an extraordinary will, not to be read for over two hundred years. In 2001, Millie Kirchner receives an invitation to the reading of the will of an ancestor she never knew she had. To a struggling single-mother this appears to be a hoax, but the promise of a trip to historic Philadelphia to meet her relatives is almost as alluring as any inheritance. When one of her new cousins mysteriously drowns and another is killed, Millie begins to wonder if she might be next.
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