Book Reviews / C Reviews / C Reviews CategoryContemporary romance / mystery/suspense3 Comments
A standalone contemporary novel in the Porthkennack universe After a massive anxiety attack, Sam Atkins left his high-powered job in the City and committed himself to life on the road in a small van. Six months in, he’s running out of savings and coming to the conclusion that he might ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviews1920s / 20th century / Alaska / journalist / murder-investigation / mystery/suspense / reporter / women's rightsComments Off on REVIEW: Borrowing Death by Cathy Pegau
Suffragette and journalist Charlotte Brody is bracing herself for her first winter in the frontier town of Cordova in the Alaska Territory. But the chilling murder of a local store owner is what really makes her blood run cold. . . After three months in Cordova, Charlotte is getting accustomed ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviewsancient-Rome / family relationships / Flavia Albia series / Historical / historical mystery / murder-investigation / mystery/suspense / Private-investigator3 Comments
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 >
B- Reviews20th century / Alaska / Doctor / Historical / journalist / murder-investigation / mystery/suspense4 Comments
There’s many who feel the Alaska Territory is no place for a woman on her own. But Charlotte Brody, suffragette and journalist, has never let public opinion dictate her life choices. She’s come to the frontier town of Cordova, where her brother Michael practices medicine, for the same reason many ... more >
B- ReviewsEngland / Historical / horses / murder / mystery/suspense / Post WWII / second chance at love3 Comments
The Cotswolds, 1947 A relentless winter holds post-war Britain in its deadly grip, and Eleanor Phillips rides out from her beleaguered Cotswold farm to rescue a stranger lost in the storm. But the near-dead man is no stranger and when she recognises Matthew Croft, the old ties of a failed ... more >
B- Reviewscontemporary mm romance / mystery/suspense6 Comments
Oliver “Ollie” Petroskovic’s life as an international supermodel was heading in the right direction. He worked part-time for his brother at his detective agency—Petroskovic Haven Investigations—and had just bought his dream house. But all that changed when he found his brother dead, a victim of PTSD-induced suicide. Almost a ... more >