Finding a historical fiction novel set in the ‘ancient world’ always seems to be a challenge for me.
In my experience, the historical fiction genre is saturated with books from the Tudor, Regency, and Victorian eras, so when I find a historical fiction novel set in another era, I’m usually on board to give it a shot.
THE SECRET CHORD is one such novel….something different set in a unique period of time.
Continue reading “Review: The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks”
For Henrietta von Harmon times are hard. Not only is it the 1930s but her father committed suicide leaving behind a large family.
Henrietta helps support her family by working as a 26 girl in a local pub and waiting tables when she can. But it’s not enough. So she takes a job taxi dancing to help support her younger siblings and mother.
It’s while she’s taxi driving that she meets the mysterious Clive Howard. Detective Inspector Howard is investigating the dance hall as a potential supplier of prostitutes to a mob establishment.
Continue reading “Review: A Girl Like You: A Henrietta and Inspector Howard Novel by Michelle Cox”
Kendra Donovan has worked hard to become respected in the FBI as one of their youngest agents ever.
She has been working tirelessly on a case that reveals a mole within the FBI itself. She is wounded during the course of duty and once she recovers she is hell bent on revenge for her team.
Unfortunately her quest for revenge is short lived as she falls through a worm hole at a castle in England only to reemerge in the early 19th century…..1815.
After having more or less come to terms with the fact that she some how time travels back to 1815, she realizes her purpose there might be more than just coincidence……maybe she was sent there to stop a serial killer.
Continue reading “Review: A Murder in Time (Kendra Donovan #1) by Julie McElwain”
I’ve been a fan of Maggie Hope for quite some time now. I read the first book when it came out and fell in love with that sassy red head.
Over the years, Maggie’s adventures have been one part spy and one part detective/mystery series. Maggie has also evolved immensely as a character which if both exciting and at times a little sad when you look back on how much she has changed over the course of the books.
In this book, there is a madman on the loose, systematically murdering women in the fashion of Jack the Ripper. Dubbed ‘The Blackout Beast’ by the press and the women of London disappearing only to turn up mutilated, Maggie is recruited by MI-5 to assist on the case.
Continue reading “Review: The Queen’s Accomplice (Maggie Hope Mystery #6) by Susan Elia MacNeal”
Isabel had made a huge decision to call off her wedding one week before the nuptials. Career minded and independent, the thought of giving up her lucrative career in finance for life on a farm is unprecedented.
She does the only sensible thing….calling it off as she knows she won’t be happy. Her ex-fiance suggests that she take their honeymoon tickets to Paris to clear her head and figure out where her life is going.
As she stand on the balcony of the elite Hotel Crillon, admiring the city of lights, she realizes she is locked out on her terrace.
Continue reading “Review: Christmas in Paris by Anita Hughes”
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