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Reading List by Jennie for January through March

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NOTE: Also read and reviewed Rebecca and Wait for It.   A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn After reading the first book in Raybourn’s Lady Julia Grey mystery series, I saw that the author had another series, the first two books of which were available on NetGalley. Even though I ... more >

Reading List by Jennie for October through December

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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 >

REVIEW: The Graveyard of the Hesperides by Lindsey Davis

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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 >

REVIEW: Till Death Do Us Part by Amanda Quick

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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 >

REVIEW: Lost Among the Living by Simone St. James

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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 >

REVIEW: The Quiet Earth by Elizabeth Harris

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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 >

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