B Reviews / Book Reviews1930s / adventure / England / Historical / non-romance / road trip / self discovery4 Comments
Mr Edgar Finchley, unmarried solicitor’s clerk, aged 45, is told to take a holiday for the first time in his life. He decides to go to Margate. But Fate has other plans in store… From his abduction in a Bentley by a cheerful crook, to his smuggling escapade off the ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviews1920s / Anglo-Indian / country house party / England / Ghost / murder mystery / non-romance / post WWI2 Comments
A delightful English cozy series begins in August 1924. Lady Adelaide Compton has recently (and satisfactorily) interred her husband, Major Rupert Charles Cressleigh Compton, hero of the Somme, in the family vault in the village churchyard. Rupert died by smashing his Hispano-Suiza on a Cotswold country road while carrying a ... more >
B Reviews / Book ReviewsContemporary / family relationships / Georgia / mortician / non-romance / novella / police / Southern Eclectic seriesComments Off on REVIEW: Peachy Flippin’ Keen by Molly Harper
A prank war erupts in Lake Sackett, Georgia and coroner Frankie McCready has to turn to the gorgeous but surly new sheriff for help in Molly Harper’s newest Southern Eclectic novella, perfect for fans of Kristan Higgins and Amy E. Reichert. The McCready Family Funeral Home and Bait Shop has ... more >
B Reviews / B Reviews Category19th century literature / British literature / classic literature / non-romance9 Comments
Dear Reader: I’ve been working my way through George Eliot titles since reading and loving Middlemarch several years ago. Middlemarch was not my first go-round with the author; I read Silas Marner in high school. My main recollection of that book was that I hated it less than some of ... more >
B ReviewsContemporary Suspense / non-romance10 Comments
Dear Ms. Hawkins: It’s never been my habit to read New York Times bestseller books. I will resist The Da Vinci Code until my last breath. But as romance has lost some of its appeal for me, I have found myself giving some of those buzzed-about books a try, here ... more >
C ReviewsLiterary fiction / Montreal / non-romance3 Comments
Dear Ms. Mandel: After reading the excellent Station Eleven, prompted by Janine’s review, I was very happy to see that your debut novel was being reissued and was available for review. Like Station Eleven, Last Night in Montreal weaves back and forth in time, presenting the varying perspectives of interconnected ... more >