Book Reviews / Reading ListsAlternate Reality Fiction / autobiography / Classic Horror / Contemporary romance / Fiction / historical mystery / New Adult / Reading lists / Restoration Era Romance18 Comments
Also read and reviewed: A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas and Hard Hitter by Sarina Bowen. Rookie Move by Sarina Bowen This was dual-reviewed by Janine and Kaetrin here – my grade matches Janine’s B- (Kaetrin liked it a bit better and gave it a B+). I found ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviewsancient-Rome / family relationships / Flavia Albia series / Historical / historical mystery / murder-investigation / mystery/suspense / Private-investigator3 Comments
In first century Rome, Flavia Albia, the daughter of Marcus Didius Falco, has taken up her father’s former profession as an informer. On a typical day, it’s small cases—cheating spouses, employees dipping into the till—but this isn’t a typical day. Her beloved, the plebeian Manlius Faustus, has recently moved in ... more >
B- Reviewshistorical mystery / historical romance20 Comments
Calista Langley operates an exclusive “introduction” agency in Victorian London, catering to respectable ladies and gentlemen who find themselves alone in the world. But now, a dangerously obsessed individual has begun sending her trinkets and gifts suitable only for those in deepest mourning—a black mirror, a funeral wreath, a ring ... more >
B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1920s / England / Ghost / Gothic / historical mystery / murder-investigation / Paranormal lite / post WWI / War / Military / World War I5 Comments
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 >
C ReviewsContemporary / dual-timeline / England / France / historical mystery / Knights / medieval / Wales2 Comments
Warning – One character has suffered a miscarriage and works through stages of her grief while another loses a child soon after childbirth. Winter 1994, and in the Wye Valley a story hidden for almost eight centuries has just been unearthed. For Nina, an ecologist working alongside local archaeologists, the ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviewsancient-Rome / dual-timeline / France / historical mystery / mystery / Roman Gaul / Roman-Britain12 Comments
The present day: Beth Leighton arrives in the ancient Roman town of Arles with her brother, Joe, to investigate the story of a Christian child martyr, St Theodore. Legend tells that a young boy was killed by a Roman officer on a moonlit night at the pagan temple of Mithras, ... more >