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August 4, 2017

REVIEW: The Rag, the Wire and the Big Store: A Leroy and Kate Love Story by Duane Lindsay

JayneA- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1940s / 1950s / 1960s / American historical / antihero / con-artist / Historical2 Comments

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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 >

July 27, 2017

REVIEW: When Pigs Fly by DeAnna Knippling

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1920s / con-artist / Historical / short-story1 Comments

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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 >

March 10, 2016

REVIEW: Flirtation Walk by Siri Mitchell

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads19th century / American historical / con-artist / Historical / inspirational / inspirational romance / War / Military4 Comments

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West Point History Comes Alive in this Warmhearted Romance Trying to escape the shambles her con-man father has made of their reputation, Lucinda Curtis arrives in West Point, New York, determined to land a husband from the military academy. Campbell Conklin is first in his class and preparing to embark ... more >

May 31, 2015

REVIEW: A Touch of Camelot by Delynn Royer

JayneB- ReviewsAmerican historical / con-artist / Historical / law-enforcement / western4 Comments

Set in Kansas, Virginia City, and San Francisco, 1879. Guinevere Pierce was raised at the knee of one of the slickest con artists in the West, but can she con her way out of this one? When Gwin and her kid brother Arthur become witnesses to murder and then targets ... more >

May 22, 2014

REVIEW: The Ruin of a Rogue by Miranda Neville

JanineB Reviews / B+ Reviews / Need A Rec! / Recommended Readsarcheology / con-artist / heiress / historical romance / redemption / Regency England / Wild Quartet series7 Comments

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Dear Ms. Neville, Last summer, while in the midst of a reading slump, I tried to read The Ruin of a Rogue. I think I got about two and half chapters in before I gave up. Since I don’t usually care for con artist characters and hadn’t yet come to ... more >

February 22, 2012

REVIEW: Crooked Hearts by Patricia Gaffney

JennieB+ Reviews / Book Reviewscon-artist / Historical Romances / reissue11 Comments

Dear Ms. Gaffney, Back when I was devouring your backlist, in my early days as a romance reader, I avoided Crooked Hearts at first. I had very rigid notions of what I liked and what I didn’t like, and “Western” and “humorous” were on my “do not like” list, as far as ... more >

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