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Reviews of some 20,000+ historical fiction books

Death Makes No Distinction: A Dan Foster Mystery

By Lucienne Boyce - Published 2019

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Lucienne Boyce’s late 18th-century Dan Foster mysteries move from strength to strength. In this third adventure, our hero – child street-thief turned pugilist ...Read Review

The Sorcerer’s Whore

By Samantha Grosser - Published 2019

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Toby Chyrche has little in the way of legacy from his father, except for a book in a language he cannot understand and ...Read Review

A Shadowed Livery

By Charlie Garratt - Published 2019

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Mystery/Crime

This mystery, first in a series set in 1938 England, dramatically opens with a hanging that is chillingly narrated by Inspector James Given. He ...Read Review

Moonlight Over Mayfair

By Anton Du Beke - Published 2019

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The sequel to One Enchanted Evening (HNR 89), Moonlight Over Mayfair explores the complicated lives of the staff and patrons of London’s luxurious ...Read Review

The Silk Merchant of Sychar

By Cindy Williams - Published 2019

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Inspirational Romance

This is Australian writer Cindy Williams’ second novel. Her first, The Pounamu Prophecy, was set in her birth country of New Zealand and ...Read Review

Alexander’s Legacy: To The Strongest

By Robert Fabbri - Published 2020

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Military

Alexander’s Legacy: To the Strongest is the first book in a new series by Robert Fabbri, author of the Vespasian series. After ...Read Review

Book of the Just (The Bohemian Trilogy)

By Dana Chamblee Carpenter - Published 2018

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Historical Fantasy Thriller

In this conclusion to her absorbing gothic fantasy, The Bohemian Trilogy, Carpenter has sent her uncanny heroine, Mouse, fleeing across the globe with ...Read Review

Rachel’s Roses

By Ferida Wolff - Published 2019

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Children/Young Adult

Rachel Berger is tired of having her little sister tagging along, getting in the way when Rachel wants to be with her friends. ...Read Review

Somewhere Besides Denver

By Jo Schaffel - By Sara Webley - Published 2019

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Children/Young Adult

Violet, Marion, and Helen, a trio of young women from Denver, are doing the Grand Tour of Europe in 1907, accompanied by their chaperone, ...Read Review

Capturing the Devil (Stalking Jack the Ripper)

By Kerri Maniscalco - Published 2019

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Children/Young Adult Mystery/Crime

In this fourth and final installment of Maniscalco’s sassy and salacious Stalking Jack the Ripper series, the darkly brilliant power-couple Audrey Rose ...Read Review