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Reviews of some 25,000+ historical fiction books
A Killing on the Hill
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Nineteen-year-old William Shumacher (“Shoe”) works as an intern for Seattle’s only afternoon paper. On an early morning in 1933, Shoe gets tipped off ...Read Review
Mockingbird Summer
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Kate Corcoran, a.k.a. Corky, has just turned 13 during the summer of 1964. Growing up in segregated High Cotton, Texas, Corky has never ...Read Review
The Medicine Woman of Galveston
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When we first meet Dr. Tucia Hatherley in St. Louis in 1900, her world has fallen apart. She has been expelled from an internship ...Read Review
Ostler: 1 (The Cambridge Hardiman Mysteries)
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Cambridge, 1825. Former soldier Gregory Hardiman carries scars with him from the war against Napoleon—both emotionally and physically. He’s working as an ...Read Review
The Milliner of Bendigo
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Evie Emerson is in a tricky situation. Edwin Cooper, a man she had briefly and foolishly courted, announces via the local newspaper that ...Read Review
The Book of Secrets
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Rome, the Papal States, 1659. Ambitious, yet shy Stefano finally gets the chance to prove himself to his father and the world when he ...Read Review
The Chocolate Factory
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In the early 1920s, the British confectionary consortium of Cadbury-Fry-Pascall sets up its first overseas factory near Hobart, Tasmania. Dorothy Adwell is one ...Read Review
The Stargazers
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A disordered childhood and abusive parents can cast a long shadow over adult life. The Stargazers is the story of Sarah, who has ...Read Review
Finding Margaret Fuller
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Margaret Fuller, friend and muse to Emerson, Whitman, Hawthorne, Thoreau, and a host of other Victorian literary luminaries, is an ideal subject for ...Read Review
The Mayfair Dagger
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If you enjoy Victorian-lady-detective-meets-a-duke novels, then this book is for you. It is a light-hearted romp through a London of carriages and crinolines ...Read Review
