B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsAmerican historical / family relationships / First-Person / France / Historical / law-enforcement / love triangles / post WWI / Womens-Fiction / World War I3 Comments
In 1917, Meg Pritchard is a woman on the run. What better place to hide than a country at war? France, ravaged by the bombs and battles of World War I, is exactly where Meg plans to disappear. But while Meg may be running away from, she’s also running to ... more >
Book Reviews / C Reviews1920s / 20th century / England / Ghost / Paranormal / paranormal romance / post WWI / psychic2 Comments
“London, 1925. Glamorous medium Gloria Sutter made her fortune helping the bereaved contact loved ones killed during the Great War. Now she’s been murdered at one of her own seances, after leaving a message requesting the help of her former friend and sole rival, Ellie Winter. Ellie doesn’t contact the ... more >
B Reviews / Book ReviewsContemporary / Diary / dual-timeline / England / paramedic / post WWI / PTSD / War / Military / World War I1 Comments
Once upon a time I would have trusted him with my life, but the Alfie I fell in love with seems to have disappeared, and I’m afraid I’ll never find him again. 1918 – As victory bells sound across London, Rose Barker waits for her darling husband Alfie to come ... 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 ReviewsBelgium / England / Germany / Historical / Historical fiction / post WWI / reconciliation / veterans / widow / Womens-Fiction / World War IComments Off on REVIEW: In Love and War by Liz Trenow
In the summer of 1919, British Ruby is mourning her beloved husband Bertie, missing since 1916. His grief-stricken parents ask one last task of her: travel to the Belgian battlefields to find Bertie’s grave, and with it the peace that will come with knowing his final resting place. Alice, an ... more >
B Reviews / Book ReviewsEngland / Historical / mental health / nurse / Paranormal / post WWI / PTSD / retired military / turn of the 20th century / War / Military7 Comments
In 1919, Kitty Weekes, pretty, resourceful, and on the run, falsifies her background to obtain a nursing position at Portis House, a remote hospital for soldiers left shell-shocked by the horrors of the Great War. Hiding the shame of their mental instability in what was once a magnificent private estate, ... more >