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January 19, 2026

REVIEW: The Sea Child by Linda Wilgus

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviews / C+ ReviewsCornwall / folklore / Historical / historical romance / paranormal elements / Regency / Smugglers / smuggling / Widowed HeroineComments Off on REVIEW: The Sea Child by Linda Wilgus

In this enthralling, adventurous debut novel, a band of seafaring smugglers lands on the Cornish coast, where a young widow with a mysterious past becomes entangled in their schemes—and with their charismatic captain. England, early 1800s: Destitute and forced to leave her home in London, Isabel, a young widow of ... more >

April 24, 2025

REVIEW: In the Beautiful Dark by Melissa Payne

JayneB- Reviews / Book ReviewsContemporary / found family / murder mystery / older characters / paranormal elements / Serial-KillerComments Off on REVIEW: In the Beautiful Dark by Melissa Payne

A woman investigates a friend’s long-ago murder in a haunting and hopeful novel about the weight of secrets and regrets by the bestselling author of The Wild Road Home and A Light in the Forest. At Sunny Pines Retirement Community, where the “Sixty-Two and Better!” share their golden years, secrets ... more >

March 5, 2024

REVIEW: Murder Road by Simone St. James

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1990s / married couple / Michigan / murder / murder-investigation / paranormal elements / police procedural / PTSD / secrets / thriller/suspence5 Comments

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A young couple find themselves haunted by a string of gruesome murders committed along an old deserted road in this terrifying new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Cold Cases. July 1995. April and Eddie have taken a wrong turn. They’re looking for the ... more >

November 18, 2020

REVIEW: Uncertain Magic by Laura Kinsale

JennieB+ Reviews / Book ReviewsFaeries / Georgian Era / historical romance / Ireland / May-December / Mindreading / paranormal elements13 Comments

This is book nine in my Laura Kinsale reread tour, which started back in 2016. It was Kinsale’s second published book, and it’s a weird one, featuring Irish fairies and mindreading and a plot that I hoped would make more sense in the end than it did the first time ... more >

July 21, 2020

REVIEW: Conned (The Bureau, #6) by Kim Fielding

SiriusBook Reviews / C Reviews Category / C- Reviews1920s / AU historical m/m romance / Historical / LGBTQIAP+ / paranormal elements2 Comments

World War I veteran Thomas Donne is new to San Francisco. Always a stoic man, shell shock and a lost love have nearly turned his heart to stone. No matter–a private eye has no room for softness. Almost broke, he takes on what appears to be a simple case: finding ... more >

October 26, 2017

REVIEW: House of Shadows by Nicola Cornick

KaetrinB- Reviews / Book ReviewsAshdown House / Bohemia / Contemporary / England / Historical / mystery / paranormal elements / time slip4 Comments

London, 1662: There was something the Winter Queen needed to tell him. She fought for the strength to speak. ‘The crystal mirror is a danger. It must be destroyed – ‘ He replied instantly. ‘It will’. Ashdown, Oxfordshire, present day: Ben Ansell is researching his family tree when he disappears. ... more >

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