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September 3, 2024

REVIEW: Saving Susy Sweetchild by Barbara Hambly

JayneBook Reviews1920s / dark academia / dysfunctional family / fish-out-of-water / Historical / historical mystery / Hollywood / Hollywood Golden Age / kidnapping / Los Angeles / Movies / silent movie4 Comments

Welcome to Hollywood of the 1920s: a world filled with glamour, fake names . . . and the occasional felony! July, 1924. After nine months of living in Hollywood and working as a companion to her beautiful silent-movie star sister-in-law, young British widow Emma Blackstone is settling into her new ... more >

July 23, 2024

REVIEW: Death on the Tiber by Lindsey Davis

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewsancient-Rome / First-Person / Flavia Albia series / Historical / historical mystery / murder mystery / murder-investigation / Private-investigator3 Comments

In first century Rome, a murder victim found in the Tiber leads to a brutal gang war and Flavia Albia to a confrontation with her long-hated nemesis, with all that she loves in the balance. First century Rome is plagued by all the evils the have beset major cities since ... more >

November 21, 2023

Review: His Lordship’s Secret (His Lordship Mysteries #1) by Samantha SoRelle

SiriusB- Reviews / Book Reviewsgay historical / His Lordship Mysteries / historical mystery / Regency EnglandComments Off on Review: His Lordship’s Secret (His Lordship Mysteries #1) by Samantha SoRelle

London 1818 Alfred Pennington, the Earl of Crawford, knows someone wants him dead. An illicit boxing match seems the perfect opportunity to hire a champion fighter to watch his back, but Alfie is shocked to recognize the beaten and bloody challenger as his childhood friend, Dominick, one of the few ... more >

September 29, 2023

Review: The Master of Samar by Melissa Scott

SiriusB Reviews / B Reviews Category / Book ReviewsFantasy / historical mystery / m/m fantasy3 Comments

Rejected by his aristocratic family, Gil Irichels has been content to make his living as a traveling cursebreaker, working with his lover, the feral mage Envar Cassi, and their bodyguard, swordswoman Arak min’Aroi. After a series of deaths leave him the sole heir to the family’s house and fortune, Irichels’s ... more >

July 21, 2023

REVIEW: Fatal Legacy by Lindsey Davis

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewsancient-Rome / dysfunctional family / estranged family / family relationships / First-Person / Flavia Albia series / historical mystery / inheritance laws / Private-investigator2 Comments

In first century Rome, Flavia Albia takes on an easy case that soon proves to be anything but as, at every turn, bodies —old and new — dog her path. Flavia Albia, daughter of Marcus Didius Falco, has taken over her father’s business as a private informer. She only has ... more >

March 8, 2023

REVIEW: One Extra Corpse by Barbara Hambly

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1920s / fish-out-of-water / Historical / historical mystery / Hollywood / Hollywood Golden Age / Los Angeles / Movies / murder mystery / silent movie9 Comments

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May, 1924. It’s been seven months since young British widow Emma Blackstone arrived in Hollywood to serve as companion to Kitty Flint: her beautiful, silent-movie star sister-in-law. Kitty is generous, kind-hearted . . . and a truly terrible actress. Not that Emma minds; she’s too busy making her academic parents ... more >

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