Reviews
Reviews of some 20,000+ historical fiction books
The Bootlegger’s Daughter
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After being abandoned by her father, Letty and her mother struggle through hard times in the rural San Fernando Valley during 1920s Prohibition ...Read Review
The London Bookshop Affair: A Novel of the Cold War
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This Cold War thriller is mainly set in 1962 but also has clear roots in WW2. The principal character is Celia Duchesne, who works ...Read Review
The Adored One
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The life and career of Lillian Lorraine, starlet of the early Ziegfeld Follies, followed the spectacular arc of so many starlets. A beauty, ...Read Review
The Red-Hot Blues Chanteuse: A Viola Vermillion Vaudeville Mystery
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In 1919, vaudeville singer Viola Vermillion arrives in San Francisco with her lover/pianist/songwriter Stu Wiley. Vaudeville has brought joy and frivolity to ...Read Review
A Lady To Treasure
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All the familiar tropes of a Regency romance are here, except that the young couple whose love story is beset by misunderstandings and ...Read Review
All My Secrets
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New York City, 1898. The Gilded Age has all the glamor and sophistication of theater. Mrs. Astor decrees that the four hundred people who ...Read Review
Circus Maximus: Rider of the Storm
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This, the last in Annelise Gray’s Circus Maximus trilogy, follows our heroine Dido, now back in Rome, intent on returning to professional ...Read Review
The Wildest Sun
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This is a Bildungsroman—a novel of education and formation of character—as our narrator, a French teenager named Delphine Auber, helpfully informs ...Read Review
Tom’s Version
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A sequel to Irwin’s 2021 novel The Runes Have Been Cast, which features several of the same characters. The story starts in 1970, so ...Read Review
Wild and Distant Seas
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Nantucket. Moby-Dick. Four generations of women who blossom via an inner force that’s part insight, part magic; the rediscovery of a father ...Read Review
