B Reviews / Book Reviews1920s / Anglo-Indian / country house party / England / Ghost / murder mystery / non-romance / post WWI2 Comments
A delightful English cozy series begins in August 1924. Lady Adelaide Compton has recently (and satisfactorily) interred her husband, Major Rupert Charles Cressleigh Compton, hero of the Somme, in the family vault in the village churchyard. Rupert died by smashing his Hispano-Suiza on a Cotswold country road while carrying a ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviews1920s / female pilots / Historical / non-fiction / pilot1 Comments
The exhilarating true story of the unsung pioneers who blazed a pathway towards a new era of female aviation! The year is 1929, and on the eve of America’s Great Depression, nineteen gutsy and passionate pilots soared above the glass ceiling in the very first female cross-country air race. Armed ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviews / C+ Reviews1920s / Commoner Aristocracy pairing / England / holiday novella / novella / Scandal / second chance at loveComments Off on REVIEW: Love in the Country by Jill Barry
It’s December 1925 and the young Annabel Crawford is about to get a surprise. Her mother, Lily Crawford, explains that the Viscount Lassiter is unexpectedly joining them for Christmas dinner – and Annabel couldn’t be less impressed! The Viscount walks under a cloud of scandal after the infamous end of ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviews1920s / Agent/Spies/Undercover / England / immigrants / London / Russia2 Comments
When exiled royalty and espionage combine, expect a romance as bold as the 1920s . . . Olga Novikov is a princess without a throne. Her fiancé and her family slain in the revolution, she flees Russia and finds herself working as the head of housekeeping at London’s luxurious Grand ... more >
B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1920s / con-artist / Historical / short-story1 Comments
A novelette of swindlers, dames, and a millionaire with a pig. Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1925. Right before New Year’s Day. Genevra Valentine is a roper, someone who brings in marks for a team of con artists working in the basement of a soda fountain-come-speakeasy. The mark she just brought in ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviews1920s / 20th century / Alaska / American historical / Historical / journalist / murder mystery / murder-investigationComments Off on REVIEW: Murder on Location by Cathy Pegau
In the Alaska Territory, suffragette Charlotte Brody is a newspaper reporter in the frontier town of Cordova. She’s a woman ahead of her time living on the rugged edge of civilization—but right now the most dangerous element she faces may come from sunny California . . . An expedition has ... more >
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