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Reviews of some 20,000+ historical fiction books

View from Pagoda Hill

By Michaela MacColl - Published 2021

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Shanghai, 1870. When the matchmaker declares 12-year-old Ning unmarriageable (she’s too tall, has “unnatural” green eyes and unbound feet), Ning’s mother writes ...Read Review

Priestess of Pompeii: The Initiate’s Journey Book I

By Sandra Hurt - Published 2020

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Italy, 60 BCE: A baby girl is left exposed to the elements after her mother dies giving the child life. The infant is found ...Read Review

Eternal

By Lisa Scottoline - Published 2021

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Readers will emerge informed and moved from Lisa Scottoline’s first historical novel, which dramatizes WWII-era Rome via three best friends and their ...Read Review

Edge of the Grave (Jimmy Dreghorn Series)

By Robbie Morrison - Published 2021 Published 2023

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Mystery/Crime

Glasgow 1932: Inspector James Dreghorn and his partner “Bonnie” Archie McDaid investigate two murders, one of a child beaten to death by his father, ...Read Review

Teddy

By Laurence Luckinbill - Published 2021

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Biographical Fiction Children/Young Adult

In their appealing young adult graphic novel, Luckinbill and Tait present the facts of President Theodore Roosevelt’s life in compact form, while ...Read Review

Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder: A Novel

By T. A. Willberg - Published 2020

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Historical Fantasy Mystery/Crime

The Investigators at Miss Brickett’s Investigations and Inquiries, located in the underground tunnels of London, are whispered-about sleuths guarding the city, though ...Read Review

The Parted Earth

By Anjali Enjeti - Published 2021

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This multi-generational novel begins in New Delhi, India, in June 1947. The British-administered partition of India and Pakistan is chaotic and causing severe tension. ...Read Review

The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba (Cuba Saga)

By Chanel Cleeton - Published 2021

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This is a well-written historical novel with strong female characters linked by Cuba’s fight for freedom in the late 19th century. It ...Read Review

The Sculptress

By V. S. Alexander - Published 2021

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Alexander’s latest novel follows the tradition of Madame Bovary, the psychological novel of love and betrayal by Gustav Flaubert. In The Sculptress, ...Read Review

The Conductors (A Murder & Magic Novel)

By Nicole Glover - Published 2021

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Historical Fantasy Mystery/Crime

In this inventive debut, Nicole Glover mixes historical fiction, mystery, and fantasy to tell the story of Hetty and Benjy Rhodes, magical detectives ...Read Review