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June 3, 2025

REVIEW: Mrs Spy by M. J. Robotham

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1960s / Agent/Spies/Undercover / betrayal / London / older characters / single mother / Widowed Heroine5 Comments

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Get ready for a pulse-pounding, laugh-out-loud ride through 1960s London as Maggie Flynn, unexpected MI5 operative and single mum, unravels the intelligence agency’s most treacherous secrets. Maggie Flynn isn’t your typical 1960s mum. She’s a spy, an unsuspecting operative for MI5, stalking London’s streets in myriad disguises. Widowed and balancing ... more >

Illustrated cover showing a white couple from a distance, standing under a large clock
April 14, 2025

REVIEW: Meet Me Under the Clock by Jo Lovett

KaetrinB- Reviews / Book ReviewsContemporary / fake dating / London / NetGalley6 Comments

Dear Jo Lovett, Nadia plans to meet her blind date (a friend of a co-worker) under the clock at Waterloo Station. Tom is also meeting someone there – the “one who got away” ten years earlier. Lola and Tom shared an evening of connection a decade earlier but she was ... more >

February 11, 2025

Review: Strange Practice (Dr. Greta Helsing # 1) by Vivian Shaw

SiriusB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsfemale doctor / ghoul / London / Urban-Fantasy / Vampire3 Comments

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Greta Helsing inherited the family’s highly specialized, and highly peculiar, medical practice. In her consulting rooms, Dr. Helsing treats the undead for a host of ills – vocal strain in banshees, arthritis in barrow-wights, and entropy in mummies. Although barely making ends meet, this is just the quiet, supernatural-adjacent life ... more >

February 4, 2025

REVIEW: An Excellent Thing in a Woman (A Sparks and Bainbridge Mystery Book 7) by Allison Montclair

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1940s / A Sparks & Bainbridge Mystery / female friendship / Historical / London / matchmakers / murder mystery / Post WWII / traumatic-past9 Comments

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The owners of The Right Sort Marriage Bureau are back, and more determined than ever to bring love matches to the residents of Post-WWII London . . . so something as trivial as a murder investigation isn’t going to stop them! London, 1947. Spirited Miss Iris Sparks and ever-practical Mrs ... more >

January 16, 2025

REVIEW: A Dangerous Game by Mandy Robotham

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1950s / Historical / Historical fiction / London / police / Post WWII / romantic-elements / Thriller/Suspense10 Comments

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London, 1952. Seven years after the chaotic aftermath of World War II, London has is coming alive again, with jazz clubs and flickering cinema awnings lighting up the night sky. But for widowed Helen ‘Dexie’ Dexter, she’s still a woman in a man’s world. She longs to prove herself as ... more >

December 25, 2024

REVIEW: A Christmas Gambol by Joan Smith

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviews / C+ Reviewsauthor / farce / Historical / London / Regency / trad regency2 Comments

Her neighbor Lord Montaigne had asked Cecily Caldwell to pose as the anonymous author of the popular Chaos Is Come Again, written, supposedly, by his aunt. Cecily agreed because she had a novel of her own to introduce to a London publisher, and she wanted to do research on London ... more >

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