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REVIEW:  A Spear of Summer Grass by Deanna Raybourn

REVIEW: A Spear of Summer Grass by Deanna Raybourn

Paris, 1923 The daughter of a scandalous mother, Delilah Drummond is already notorious, even amongst Paris society. But her latest scandal is big enough to make even her oft-married mother blanch. Delilah is exiled to Kenya and her favorite stepfather’s savannah manor house until gossip subsides. Fairlight is the crumbling, sun-bleached skeleton of a faded(…)

REVIEW:  Silent Night: A Lady Julia Christmas Novella by Deanna Raybourn

REVIEW: Silent Night: A Lady Julia Christmas Novella by Deanna Raybourn

Dear Ms. Raybourn: While waiting for the next “Lady Julia” mystery novel, I noticed that this little novella is on offer for the Christmas season. It’s not long, it’s not complicated and it’s not that different from any other Lady Julia story. If readers like this world and it’s people, it should be a nice(…)

REVIEW:  The Demoness of Waking Dreams by Stephanie Chong

REVIEW: The Demoness of Waking Dreams by Stephanie Chong

Dear Ms. Chong: I hope that Harlequin isn’t marketing this as a romance because I can foresee a lot of unhappy readers if it was. The Demonness of Waking Dreams asks the readers to step into an Alternate Universe Venice and imagine that the world is populated by demons and angels who are engaged in(…)

REVIEW:  The Return of Jonah Gray by Heather Cochran

REVIEW: The Return of Jonah Gray by Heather Cochran

Dear Ms. Cochran, One of our readers, Emily, recommended “The Return of Jonah Gray” to me when I’d reviewed another book which features an Internal Revenue Service heroine. After reading the first two chapters of your book at Amazon, I was hooked on the heroine and her sense of humor (must just be the IRS(…)

REVIEW: The Kingdom by Amanda Stevens

REVIEW: The Kingdom by Amanda Stevens

Dear Ms. Stevens, I enjoyed your previous novel, The Restorer, about the self-styled Graveyard Queen, Amelia Gray. It’s a morbid name but a fitting one. Amelia is a cemetery restorer, as well as the owner of a niche, but popular, blog. What few people know, however, is that she can also see ghosts. Because I(…)

REVIEW: Blind Instinct by Fiona Brand

REVIEW: Blind Instinct by Fiona Brand

Dear Ms. Brand, I’ve been on a WWII kick the last few weeks which is what made me focus on the blurb for “Blind Instinct.” The heroine obtains a Nazi codebook that’s going to lead to all kinds of secrets and threats to her life. This is what brings her together with the hero as(…)

REVIEW: The Diplomat’s Wife by Pam Jenoff

Dear Mrs. Jenoff, In my never ending quest to find historical novels set in unusual times and places, I stumbled on “The Diplomat’s Wife.” Off the top of my head, I can’t recall anything similar to it – Polish, Jewish, resistance heroine who starts as a Gestapo prisoner who is saved by the American invasion(…)