May 5 2013
“It’s 1777 when Captain Jack Absolute becomes a sensation throughout London. This news comes as a shock to the real Jack Absolute when he arrives in England after four months at sea. But there’s little time for outrage before he finds himself dueling for his life. Right when he thinks he’s finally won, he is(…)
Mar 18 2013
“In the year of 1777 in rural Pennsylvania, Quaker Kate Grey is powerfully drawn to British officer Peter Tremayne. But when Kate’s “Aunt Angela”, a master spy posing as a Quaker, steals his military documents, he is disgraced and run out of town. With the support of Peter’s dissolute cousin, Colonel Bayard, Peter returns to(…)
Feb 19 2013
THE AGENT: Tall, dark and devastatingly handsome Keshon Gray THE MISSION: To smoke out a deadly traitor–or die trying THE OBSTACLE: The sweet temptation of the only woman he’d ever loved! Keshon Gray had never regretted anything he’d had to do in the line of duty–until now. For entering the dangerous world of gang warfare(…)
Jan 17 2013
I am named in a terrible book – A person and his family hosted an author in his home overseas. The author wrote a book. The friend read it and was surprised to find himself and his family and their place of living subject to a negative portrayal. The person wrote to Salon. Cary Tenis(…)
Jul 10 2012
London, 1940. Winston Churchill has just been sworn in, war rages across the Channel, and the threat of a Blitz looms larger by the day. But none of this deters Maggie Hope. She graduated at the top of her college class and possesses all the skills of the finest minds in British intelligence, but her(…)
Feb 14 2012
As Napoleon pursues his plans for the invasion of England, English operative Augustus Whittlesby gets wind of a top secret device, to be demonstrated over the course of a house party at Malmaison. The catch? The only way in is to join forces with that annoying American socialite, Emma Morris Delagardie, who has been commissioned(…)
Jan 26 2012
Dear Ms. Julian: I liked the blurb for this book. The heroine is the daughter of famous CIA agents who have retired. Janey DeMarco works in the family agency that does everything from surveillance to retrieval of kidnapped victims. Their agency’s services are wide ranging, almost too wide ranging in my opinion. I had a(…)
Jan 23 2012
Dear Ms. Carey, Kushiel’s Dart, your fantasy novel, is the story of Phedre, who begins life in the Night Court of Terre D’Ange. The Night Court is peopled by prostitutes, known in this world as Servants of Naamah, the goddess of such things. Terre D’Ange is modeled on Renaissance France, but with some substantial differences,(…)
Jan 3 2012
Dear Ms. St. Claire: I have a feeling that this book is going to get some bad grades because the heroine does very bad things and is hard and edgy and the redemption story is hers, not the male protagonist. But it is because of the heroine that I enjoyed this book. Natalya Trubachev is a(…)
Dec 19 2011
Dear Ms. Curtis: This is a fun spy caper book with a great and very competent heroine. It requires a huge suspension of disbelief but if the reader can let go, it is a fun ride. Maggie Kincaid is an information services librarian at a large university whose similarity to another woman who posed nude(…)
Dec 5 2011
Dear Ms Andrews, I must confess, I am a fan. You are one of those authors I count on to consistently deliver good stories. The presence of your name on the cover of a book will motivate me to buy what I would otherwise pass. I’m hooked on your Kate Daniels series of Urban Fantasy(…)
Nov 28 2011
Dear Ms. Essex: The Danger of Desire opens in the POV of a young woman named Meggs. Meggs, a London street thief, and her younger brother Timmy, are preparing to steal near the Admiralty building. Meanwhile, Captain Hugh McAlden is in the same building, meeting with Admiral Middleton, who tells him the Admiralty Board has(…)
Nov 3 2011
Reader Christine sent me this beautiful review of Joanna Bourne’s book, The Black Hawk, and I am honored to share it with the DA readership. ****** The novel “The Black Hawk” begins in 1818, six hundred yards from number saeven Meeks street where Justine, a former member of the French “Police Secrete,” long estranged from her(…)
Oct 22 2011
Dear Ms Dreyer: For the first third of this book, I had real doubts about whether I would finish it. The hero, Major Sir Harry Lidge, had fallen in love with Lady Catherine Anne Hilliard Seaton, Dowager Duchess of Murther ten years prior but because he believes that she tried to foist a bastard baby(…)
Aug 26 2011
First, I want to rant about the horrible scanning errors in this book. One or two wouldn’t really have bothered me and I’m hardly the grammar police, but I counted over one-hundred of them (number 1 for letters I and l, regular dashes where there should be emdashes, random words that are italicized or underlined,(…)
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