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April 6, 2016

REVIEW: Lost Among the Living by Simone St. James

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1920s / England / Ghost / Gothic / historical mystery / murder-investigation / Paranormal lite / post WWI / War / Military / World War I5 Comments

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England, 1921. Three years after her husband, Alex, disappeared, shot down over Germany, Jo Manders still mourns his loss. Working as a paid companion to Alex’s wealthy, condescending aunt, Dottie Forsyth, Jo travels to the family’s estate in the Sussex countryside. But there is much she never knew about her ... more >

November 1, 2014

REVIEW: The Demon Count Novels by Anne Stuart

JayneB Reviews19th century / First-Person / Gothic / Historical / Venice13 Comments

Description The Demon Count In a world of grandeur but also nightmarish evils, his dangerous passion drew her to him . . . As soon as she arrives in Venice, golden-haired Charlotte Morrow is pursued by the city’s most dashing and celebrated men. Young and reckless, the orphaned English ward ... more >

The Perfect Bride by Kerry Connor
May 22, 2013

REVIEW: The Perfect Bride by Kerry Connor

JaneB- ReviewsContemporary / Gothic / Harlequin / mystery5 Comments

Dear Ms. Connor: Thank you for sending Dear Author a review copy of your book. I’m not a frequent reader of Harlequin Intrigues so I wouldn’t ordinarily pick up this book.  Jillian Jones arrives at Sutton Hall posing as a bride to be in order to investigate the death of ... more >

April 4, 2013

REVIEW: India Fan by Victoria Holt

JayneB Reviews / Recommended ReadsEngland / First-Person / Gothic / India / Victorian era17 Comments

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Drusilla Delaney, daughter of an English Victorian vicar has grown up near and with the aristocratic Framling children – handsome Fabian and spoilt Lavinia. While she isn’t in contact with Fabian as much until they are adults, she has been tutored along side and then sent off to boarding school ... more >

October 14, 2011

REVIEW: Trencarrow Secret by Anita Davison

JayneC+ ReviewsCornwall / Gothic / Historical Romances2 Comments

“Isabel Hart is afraid of two things, the maze at Trencarrow where she got lost as a young child, and the lake where her brother David saved her from drowning in a boating accident. With her twenty-first birthday and the announcement of her engagement imminent, Isabel decides it is time ... more >

September 22, 2011

REVIEW: The Lantern by Deborah Lawrenson

JennieB+ Reviews / Book ReviewsFirst-Person / France / Gothic / mystery21 Comments

Dear Ms. Lawrenson, I happened to read a review of this, your debut novel, in People a month or so ago. I was intrigued by the description of the novel as an homage to Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca. Imagine my surprise when, the very next day, while sifting through my big drawer o’ books ... more >

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