Italy

REVIEW: Christmas Revels by Mary Jo Putney

Dear Ms. Putney, This collection, published by Jove in 2002, includes one original contemporary Christmas novella and reprints of four of your older novellas from the early 1990s. All but one were new to me when I picked up this book. Here are my opinions of each of the stories: “A Holiday Fling” This is(…)

REVIEW: The Devil in Music by Kate Ross

Dear Readers, This was Ross’s last book before her untimely, early death and it’s one of her best. It really is too bad that the mystery world lost her and her creations, Julian Kestrel and his manservant, Dipper. 1821: Austrian controlled Italy seethes with revolt which threatens to break out in Lombardy as it has(…)