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March 20, 2025

REVIEW: A Map to Paradise by Susan Meissner

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviews / C+ Reviews1950s / actress / blacklist / immigrant / Los Angeles / Post WWII / screenwriting / Womens-FictionComments Off on REVIEW: A Map to Paradise by Susan Meissner

1956, Malibu, California: Something is not right on Paradise Circle. With her name on the Hollywood blacklist and her life on hold, starlet Melanie Cole has little choice in company. There is her next-door neighbor, Elwood, but the screenwriter’s agoraphobia allows for just short chats through open windows. He’s her ... more >

March 19, 2025

REVIEW: Twice as Dead by Harry Turtledove

JayneBook Reviews / C- Reviewsalternate universe / cats / colorism / Fantasy / missing persons / noir / noir mystery / POC / Post WWII / Private-investigator / vampires / zombies2 Comments

Rudolf Sebestyen is missing, and Marianne Smalls is involved in an illicit affair with the shady Jonas Schmitt. Both cases converge when Dora Urban, Rudolf’s beautiful and mysterious half-sister, and Lamont Smalls, Marianne’s suspicious husband, hire Jack Mitchell, a hard-drinking, chain-smoking private investigator. Dora wants Jack to uncover what happened ... more >

February 4, 2025

REVIEW: An Excellent Thing in a Woman (A Sparks and Bainbridge Mystery Book 7) by Allison Montclair

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1940s / A Sparks & Bainbridge Mystery / female friendship / Historical / London / matchmakers / murder mystery / Post WWII / traumatic-past9 Comments

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The owners of The Right Sort Marriage Bureau are back, and more determined than ever to bring love matches to the residents of Post-WWII London . . . so something as trivial as a murder investigation isn’t going to stop them! London, 1947. Spirited Miss Iris Sparks and ever-practical Mrs ... more >

January 16, 2025

REVIEW: A Dangerous Game by Mandy Robotham

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1950s / Historical / Historical fiction / London / police / Post WWII / romantic-elements / Thriller/Suspense10 Comments

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London, 1952. Seven years after the chaotic aftermath of World War II, London has is coming alive again, with jazz clubs and flickering cinema awnings lighting up the night sky. But for widowed Helen ‘Dexie’ Dexter, she’s still a woman in a man’s world. She longs to prove herself as ... more >

October 24, 2024

REVIEW: Cold War: A Novel of the Berlin Airlift (Bridge to Tomorrow Book 2) by Helena P. Schrader

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviews1940s / Berlin-Germany / Cold War / Historical / Historical fiction / novelization / politics / Post WWII / War / MilitaryComments Off on REVIEW: Cold War: A Novel of the Berlin Airlift (Bridge to Tomorrow Book 2) by Helena P. Schrader

Fighting a war with milk, coal and candy bars…. In the second book of the Bridge to Tomorrow Series, the story continues where “Cold Peace” left off. Berlin is under siege. More than two million civilians in Hitler’s former capital will starve unless they receive food, medicine and more by ... more >

September 19, 2024

REVIEW: Cold Peace: A Novel of the Berlin Airlift, Part I (Bridge to Tomorrow Book 1) by Helena P. Schrader

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviews1940s / Berlin-Germany / Cold War / Historical / novelization / pilot / politics / Post WWII / War / MilitaryComments Off on REVIEW: Cold Peace: A Novel of the Berlin Airlift, Part I (Bridge to Tomorrow Book 1) by Helena P. Schrader

The economy is broken, the currency worthless, and the Russian bear is hungry. In the ruins of Hitler’s capital, war heroes and resilient women struggle in the post-war doldrums — until they discover new purpose in defending Berlin’s freedom from Soviet tyranny. When a Russian fighter brings down a British ... more >

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