B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1930s / England / Historical / London / older couple / Paris1 Comments
Book 2 of the classic trilogy of humorous adventures An ebullient Mr Finchley is about to propose marriage to a lady he had rescued from mishap, when he is sent to Paris by his firm. There he manages to upset a boat, adopt a stray orphan and get himself kidnapped. ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviews1930s / First-Person / Historical / Kentucky / librarian / racism / Womens-Fiction2 Comments
The hardscrabble folks of Troublesome Creek have to scrap for everything—everything except books, that is. Thanks to Roosevelt’s Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project, Troublesome’s got its very own traveling librarian, Cussy Mary Carter. Cussy’s not only a book woman, however, she’s also the last of her kind, her skin a ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviews1930s / adventure / England / Historical / non-romance / road trip / self discovery4 Comments
Mr Edgar Finchley, unmarried solicitor’s clerk, aged 45, is told to take a holiday for the first time in his life. He decides to go to Margate. But Fate has other plans in store… From his abduction in a Bentley by a cheerful crook, to his smuggling escapade off the ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviews1930s / Classic Murder Mystery / crime fiction / England / haunted house / Historical7 Comments
What begins as an adventure soon becomes a nightmare… Locals claim it is haunted and refuse to put a single toe past the front door, but to siblings Peter, Celia, and Margaret, the Priory is nothing more than a rundown estate inherited from their late uncle-and the perfect setting for ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviews1930s / American historical / Farmer / Historical / inspirational romance / novella / sweet romance3 Comments
James Bloom has prayed three years for rain and five years for a wife. His dreams are demolished on Palm Sunday, 1935, when a catastrophic dust storm hits Oklahoma, and his neighbor’s niece has to ride out the storm at his house–-overnight. The next day, he’s forced to marry her, ... more >
B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1930s / 19th century / American historical / dual-timeline / Historical / lawyer / law related / murder-investigation / Race / West Virginia6 Comments
Lakin, West Virginia, 1930 Following a suicide attempt and consigned to a segregated insane asylum, attorney James P. D. Gardner finds himself under the care of Dr. James Boozer. Fresh out of medical school, Dr. Boozer is eager to try the new talking cure for insanity, and encourages his elderly ... more >