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The Water Doctor’s Daughters
This is true crime and also a Victorian melodrama which outdoes any fictional Victorian melodrama I have ever read. It…
Honey Brown is Married
Dreadful title, very enjoyable book. The novel follows the fortunes of Honey Brown (previously, abandoned orphan Annie) after she has…
An Invisible Murder
This is the fourth novel in the series featuring the gifted cook and amateur detective, Jenny Starling. She is the…
The Annals of Sherlock Holmes
This is Paul Gilbert’s third book of Sherlock Holmes pastiche, consisting of three long short stories (or novellas as he…
Dark Passage
During the 1890s Depression in Australia, Nicola Redmond’s father commits suicide, unable to face financial ruin, leaving her and her…
Hurricane Hole
Hurricane Hole is a WW2 thriller set in the Bahamas. Since this was not a very active theatre of war,…
Catherine of Deepdale
In 1946, Catherine Jameson leaves Southampton for the Shetland Isles, home of her new husband, Robbie, anticipating an idyllic island…
The Sea Inside His Head
Set in the Kent coalfields during the miners’ strike of 1984, this debut novel explores the dilemmas of a miner,…
For the Love of Catherine
Crossing on the Titanic to see her sister on the New York stage, a young mother, Mair (the heroine of…
England’s Janissary
Disillusioned by his experiences in the First World War, Kevin Flynn returns to his home in Ireland and takes a…
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