B Reviews / B Reviews Category / B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1940s / noir mystery / private investigators4 Comments
Introducing Pentecost and Parker, two unconventional female detectives who couldn’t care less about playing by the rules, in their cases and in their lives. It’s 1942 and Willowjean “Will” Parker is a scrappy circus runaway whose knife-throwing skills have just saved the life of New York’s best, and most unorthodox, ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviews1940s / family relationships / fathers and daughters / Historical / wedding / wedding planning3 Comments
Poor Mr. Banks! His jacket is too tight, he can’t get a cocktail, and he’s footing the bill…He’s the father of the bride. Stanley Banks is just your ordinary suburban dad. He’s the kind of guy who believes that weddings are simple affairs in which two people get married. But ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviews#ownvoices / 1940s / English Historical / Historical / LGBTQIA / London / reprint / slice of life / World War II4 Comments
In this reprint of a classic of wartime literature by historical novelist Bryher, life in London during the Blitz is depicted with realism, empathy, and humor Eighty years ago, the city of London became the target of a relentless bombing campaign by Nazi Germany during WWII that has come to ... more >
B Reviews / B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1940s / A Sparks & Bainbridge Mystery / amateur sleuths / banter / England / female friendship / historical mystery / London / matchmakers / Post WWII / spy / widow4 Comments
Dear Allison Montclair, I heard good things about you debut historical mystery, The Right Sort of Man, from Barb in Maryland and Liz McCausland. The book concerns two women, Iris Sparks and Gwendolyn Bainbridge, who open a marriage bureau (matchmaking agency) together in 1946 England. Even though I don’t usually ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviews1940s / African American / American historical / Decades: A Journey of African American Romance / Historical / musician / novella / POC / POC author / Post WWII / PTSD / SoldierNo Comments
*LOVE’S SWEET MELODY is part of the Decades: A Journey of African American Romance series. Each book explores a decade between the 1900s and the 2010s. This book covers the 1940s.* Autumn, 1946 Warner Hughes returns home from war with the lingering effects of battle. Abandoned by his sweetheart and ... more >
A- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1940s / 1950s / 1960s / American historical / antihero / con-artist / Historical2 Comments
Robin Hood? Not these two. Meet Leroy Logan, a young man who’s going to be the best con artist ever and Katherine “Fast Kate” Mulrooney, a young woman with even bigger dreams of her own. Together and apart, for sixty years of living large, Kate and Leroy will embezzle anything, ... more >