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July 27, 2022

REVIEW: Desperate Undertaking by Lindsey Davis

JayneBook Reviewsactors / ancient-Rome / female detectives / First-Person / Flavia Albia series / Historical / historical mystery / murder mystery / murder-investigation / Private-investigatorComments Off on REVIEW: Desperate Undertaking by Lindsey Davis

In Lindsey Davis’s next book in the beloved Flavia Albia Series, Desperate Undertaking, a mad killer (or killers!) is strewing bodies around in the most gruesome of manners and, true to form, it is up to Flavia Albia to determine what is really going on and stop this bacchanal of ... more >

July 27, 2021

REVIEW: A Comedy of Terrors by Lindsey Davis

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviewsancient-Rome / family relationships / female detectives / First-Person / Flavia Albia series / Historical / historical mystery / murder mystery / murder-investigation / organized crime / Private-investigator6 Comments

In Rome, 89 A.D., poisonings, murders, and a bloody gang war of retribution breaks out during the festival of Saturnalia, and when her husband, Tiberius, becomes a target, it’s time for Flavia Albia to take matters into her own hands — in Lindsey Davis’s next historical mystery, A Comedy of ... more >

March 3, 2021

REVIEW: A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djèlí Clark

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviewsdjinn / Egypt / Fantasy / female detectives / Middle East / POC / POC author / short-story / steampunk / strong heroine / turn of the 20th century / unusual heroine2 Comments

Egypt, 1912. In Cairo, the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities investigate disturbances between the mortal and the (possibly) divine. What starts off as an odd suicide case for Special Investigator Fatma el-Sha’arawi leads her through the city’s underbelly as she encounters rampaging ghouls, saucy assassins, clockwork angels, and ... more >

November 21, 2019

REVIEW: The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch

JanineB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Need A Rec! / Recommended Readsalternate-reality / apocalyptic / disability / female detectives / horror / murder-investigation / NCIS / Science Fiction / time slip / Time-Travel6 Comments

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Trigger warning (spoilery): Content warning: Dear Tom Sweterlitsch, Your science fiction thriller with horror elements, The Gone World, came highly recommended by Thea at The Book Smugglers. The Book Smugglers is a site that has rarely steered me wrong, so I decided to give the book a shot, despite the ... more >

Waking The Witch (Women of the Otherworld, #11) by Kelley Armstrong
July 26, 2010

REVIEW: Waking the Witch by Kelley Armstrong

JiaB Reviewsfemale detectives / Kelley-Armstrong / murder-investigation / unrequited-love / Urban-Fantasy / Witches7 Comments

Dear Ms. Armstrong, I’m a long-time fan of yours. My first exposure to your work was Bitten, the first novel in your Otherworld series about the only female werewolf in existence, several years ago before urban fantasy took off and became the sprawling subgenre it is today. I know I’ve ... more >

September 23, 2009

REVIEW: Witch Craft by Caitlin Kittredge

JiaBook Reviews / C Reviews / C Reviews CategoryCaitlin Kittredge / demons / female detectives / selkies / shapeshifters / Urban-Fantasy / witchcraft / Witches2 Comments

Dear Ms. Kittredge, I have a very hard time explaining why I keep reading this series.   As I’ve mentioned in the past, the main character, Luna Wilder, can be really off-putting at times.   On the other hand, it’s very nice to see her maturing and evolving over the course of ... more >

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