B Reviews / Book Reviews1880s / Angel / fanfic / Fantasy / friendship / Late Victorian / London / murder mystery / queer characters / Shapeshifter / Sherlock Holmes24 Comments
Dear Katherine Addison, Your steampunk fantasy novel, The Goblin Emperor, was my second favorite book of 2014 (my favorite being Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel). The Goblin Emperor held a tinge of melancholy, but also of hopefulness, and the balance of the two made the reading experience an ... more >
B Reviews / B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1940s / amateur sleuths / banter / England / female friendship / historical mystery / London / matchmakers / Post WWII / spy / widow4 Comments
Dear Allison Montclair, I heard good things about you debut historical mystery, The Right Sort of Man, from Barb in Maryland and Liz McCausland. The book concerns two women, Iris Sparks and Gwendolyn Bainbridge, who open a marriage bureau (matchmaking agency) together in 1946 England. Even though I don’t usually ... more >
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When one of his colleagues witnesses a robbery in which one of the participants, a child, bears a striking resemblance to a certain Bow Street Runner, John Pickett realizes he has a young half-brother who has been “apprenticed” to a criminal gang. The brutal murder of the pursuing constable makes ... more >
Book Reviews / C ReviewsContemporary / epistolary / Fiction / fish-out-of-water / London / long distance relationship / nurse / PTSD / Scotland7 Comments
Lissa, is a nurse in a gritty, hectic London neighborhood. Always terribly competent and good at keeping it all together, she’s been suffering quietly with PTSD after helping to save the victim of a shocking crime. Her supervisor quietly arranges for Lissa to spend a few months doing a much ... more >
B Reviews / B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads18th-century / autobiography / documentary / English historical mystery / France / Historical / History / journalists / London / Movie / murder mystery / neurodiverse / non-fiction / Paris / Post WWII / sailing / science / tv adaptation / Vietnam / War / Military / World War II17 Comments
The Right Sort of Man: A Sparks & Bainbridge Mystery by Allison Montclair In a London slowly recovering from World War II, two very different women join forces to launch a business venture in the heart of Mayfair—The Right Sort Marriage Bureau. Miss Iris Sparks, quick-witted and impulsive, and Mrs. ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviews17th-century / England / English-Civil-War / estranged family / family relationships / Historical / London / long separation / politics / printing / Stuart-England / War / Military7 Comments
The compelling sequel to the English Civil War novel London in Chains – It is 1648, and the Civil War has been resurrected by a king still determined to be an absolute ruler and a parliament unable to agree how to govern without him. Blacksmith Jamie Hudson, weary and disillusioned, ... more >
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