B Reviews Category / B- Reviews / Book Reviews / C Reviews Category / C+ Reviewsf/f romance / Historical / Historical Fantasy / murder mystery / shipboard / The Last Binding series1 Comments
Magic! Murder! Shipboard romance! The second entry in Freya Marske’s beloved The Last Binding trilogy, the queer historical fantasy series that began with A Marvellous Light The most interesting things in Maud Blyth’s life have happened to her brother Robin, but she’s ready to join any cause, especially if it ... more >
B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsdysfunctional family / family relationships / Historical / historical mystery / John Pickett mysteries series / murder mystery / Regency3 Comments
With a beautiful and clever wife, a growing investigative business, and a baby due any day, former Bow Street Runner John Pickett finally has a respectable life far removed from his beginnings as a juvenile pickpocket in the rookeries of St. Giles. Then his father returns from transportation to Botany ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviews1950s / bisexual / cop / found family / Gay / lesbian / LGBTQIA characters / LGBTQIA community / LGBTQIA+ / murder mysteryNo Comments
A delicious story from a new voice in suspense, Lavender House is Knives Out with a queer historical twist Lavender House, 1952: the family seat of recently deceased matriarch Irene Lamontaine, head of the famous Lamontaine soap empire. Irene’s recipes for her signature scents are a well guarded secret – ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviews / C+ Reviewsbook adaptation / Crusade / discrimination / female doctor / First-Person / gender inequality / Historical / Italy / Jewish characters / Jewish-faith / medieval / murder mystery / Rape / rape survivor / Suicide / violence against women7 Comments
This book continues the story of Rebecca from Walter Scott’s 1820 novel Ivanhoe. The Ivanhoe backstory: Jewish women in medieval England do not fall in love with Christian knights like Ivanhoe. Neither do they heal knights from battle wounds. But Rebecca does both—and nearly pays with her life. Rescued by ... more >
Book Reviewsactors / ancient-Rome / female detectives / First-Person / Flavia Albia series / Historical / historical mystery / murder mystery / murder-investigation / Private-investigatorNo Comments
In Lindsey Davis’s next book in the beloved Flavia Albia Series, Desperate Undertaking, a mad killer (or killers!) is strewing bodies around in the most gruesome of manners and, true to form, it is up to Flavia Albia to determine what is really going on and stop this bacchanal of ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviews1930s / dual-timeline / dysfunctional family / First-Person / Historical fiction / London / murder mystery / POC / POC author / shipboard / singer2 Comments
The glittering RMS Queen Mary. A nightclub singer on the run. An aristocratic family with secrets worth killing for. London, 1936. Lena Aldridge wonders if life has passed her by. The dazzling theatre career she hoped for hasn’t worked out. Instead, she’s stuck singing in a sticky-floored basement club in ... more >