We’re officially one-third of the way through the 99 recommendations of #read99women, and the hits just keep coming! Today’s is a modern classic for fans of historical fiction, suspense, and plot machinations that take your breath away.

Today’s guest is Erika Mailman, author of THE WITCH’S TRINITY, a San Francisco Chronicle Notable Book which Khaled Hosseini called "gripping"; WOMAN OF ILL FAME, which Diana Gabaldon of the OUTLANDER series called, "one of the best books I've read in a long time"; and the award-winning THE MURDERER’S MAID: a Lizzie Borden Novel. She holds an MFA in poetry and has been a Yaddo fellow and Bram Stoker Award finalist. Under the pen name Lynn Carthage, her young adult trilogy includes HAUNTED, BETRAYED and AVENGED.

Erika’s recommendation is FINGERSMITH by Sarah Waters. You can read her full review here, and here’s a teaser that will definitely tempt you to add this intriguing historical novel to your TBR pile: “This book does what all great historical fiction can do: let you feel like you LIVE in another time period, sweating its sweat, breathing its fumes. I loved this book and the incredible plot twists and pure energetic FUN.”