B+ Reviews / Book ReviewsEgypt / Mystery series / unusual heroine / Veronica Speedwell series / Victorian mystery5 Comments
Dear Ms. Raybourn: This is the third in the Veronica Speedwell mystery series, and the fourth Deanna Raybourn title I’ve read. (In addition to the first two books in this series, I read the first Lady Julia Grey mystery, Silent in the Grave. I do plan to get back to ... more >
B+ Reviews / Recommended Readsancient-Rome / chick-in-pants / Egypt / European-Historical / female doctor / Historical / religion9 Comments
In the Fourth Century A.D., independent and determined young Charis is forbidden to become a doctor because she is a woman. Disguising herself as a eunuch, she flees Ephesus and an unwanted marriage for Alexandria, then the center of learning. There she apprentices to a Jewish doctor but eventually becomes ... more >
B Reviews / B+ Reviews / Recommended Readsangst / Christmas / Contemporary / Egypt / England / estranged family / First-Person / ghosts / paranormal romance / second chance at love6 Comments
What do you do if you come face to face with a ghost? Put it down to a bump on the head and work stress if you’re a respected academic like Cleo Carpenter. With Christmas approaching, professional rivalry afoot and a best friend determined to interfere in her love life ... more >
Publishing NewsEgypt / HarperCollins / Intellectual Property Issues / Kobo27 Comments
First up, no deals today, just the news. I don’t publish this to promote this deal but to share with the reading audience one of the strangest things I have received in my inbox (and trust me, I see a lot of crazy stuff there from more books about dumpster ... more >
B- ReviewsAmazon Montlake / Connie-Brockway / Edwardian-era / Egypt / Historical Romances / road-romance19 Comments
Dear Ms. Brockway, When I found out the news that this story is about Harry and Dizzy’s daughter, I was initially excited. Until I sat and thought for a minute and realized that it’s been so long since I read “As You Desire” that I have absolutely no recollection of ... more >
D Reviews / HaikuEgypt / Historical Romances180 Comments
(Lots of spoilers ahead – beware!) What happened here, Dray? Your first book was so very good. This one screwed the pooch. In first book, Selene takes control of her own fate ends on happy note this book takes that book and pretty much destroys it I ... more >