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January 27, 2022

REVIEW: Anatomy: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz

JennieB Reviews / Book Reviewsfantasy/scifi / Historical fiction / historical mystery / Scotland / young adult fiction4 Comments

I’ve read two previous books by Dana Schwartz, Choose Your Own Disaster and The White Man’s Guide to White Male Writers of the Western Canon. Both were non-fiction(ish?) – the first a memoir with a “Choose Your Own Adventure” conceit and the second a satirical look at famous authors from ... more >

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December 9, 2021

Reading List by Jennie for July through September

JennieBook Reviews / Reading ListsBiography / classic fiction / Essays / historical mystery / historical romance / psychological thriller / Reading lists / Regency Romance13 Comments

Romola by George Eliot This is one of the last George Eliot books I had unread. I’ll confess that early on I thought about dumping it, but I persevered. As a book written in the 19th century about the 15th century and centered quite a lot on philosophy and the ... more >

September 16, 2021

REVIEW: Death Can Be Habit-Forming by Sheri Cobb South

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewsclass differences / family relationships / Historical / historical mystery / London / murder mystery / Regency8 Comments

Having resigned his position at Bow Street in disgrace (at least in his own mind) and failed in his attempt to establish himself as a private agent, John Pickett toils away at a tedious job as a clerk in the City. When he is approached by a man wishing to ... more >

August 2, 2021

REVIEW: Scandal in Babylon by Barbara Hambly

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1920s / 20th century / fish-out-of-water / Historical / historical mystery / Hollywood / Hollywood Golden Age / Los Angeles / murder mystery / silent movie8 Comments

Recommended Read

“You shall never have a penny of my money. Leave me alone or I will shoot you dead!” 1924. After six months in Hollywood, young British widow Emma Blackstone has come to love her new employer, glamourous movie-star Kitty Flint – even if her late husband’s sister is one 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 19, 2021

REVIEW: An Uxpected Peril by Deanna Raybourn

JennieB Reviews / Book Reviewsfictional European kingdom / historical mystery / Series / Veronica Speedwell / VictorianComments Off on REVIEW: An Uxpected Peril by Deanna Raybourn

Dear Deanna Raybourn: This is book six in your Veronica Speedwell mystery series, set in late Victorian London. Blurb time!: January 1889. As the newest member of the Curiosity Club—an elite society of brilliant, intrepid women—Veronica Speedwell is excited to put her many skills to good use. As she assembles ... more >

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