Sara Sheridan
The Fair Botanists
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The Fair Botanists is set around the Edinburgh Botanic Gardens’ move from Leith Walk to the new larger location at Inverleith in 1822. The ...Read Review
Victoria and Albert: A Royal Love Affair
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Having read Daisy Goodwin’s novel about Victoria and having watched the PBS series, of which this is a companion volume, I was ...Read Review
On Starlit Seas
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1823, Valparaiso, Chile. The novel’s opening highlights the journey of widowed author, Maria Graham, and follows her to Brazil, where she encounters Captain ...Read Review
Russian Roulette
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Russian Roulette is the sixth outing for Sara Sheridan’s plucky 1950s crime-solving sleuth Mirabelle Bevan. The story works well as a standalone, ...Read Review
Operation Goodwood: A Mirabelle Bevan Mystery
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Mirabelle Bevan, head of a debt-collecting agency in 1950s Brighton, enjoys a day out to see motor racing at Goodwood with Superintendent McGregor. ...Read Review
British Bulldog: A Mirabelle Bevan Mystery
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British Bulldog is the fourth novel in Sara Sheridan’s mystery series. I hadn’t read any of the previous novels, but it ...Read Review
England Expects
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In 1953, Mirabelle Bevan, ex-SOE agent, is running a debt collection agency in Brighton. She like to play detective, so when a woman asks ...Read Review
London Calling
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1952. Sixty years ago, the changes imposed by the war years had worked their way deep into the psyche of many people. Some for ...Read Review
Brighton Belle
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The year is 1951, and although rationing is still in force, England is slowly moving towards normality after the war years. Following the death ...Read Review
Secret of the Sands
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In 1833, Lieutenant James Wellsted is an officer in the British Navy surveying the coast of the Arabian Peninsula as part of a mission ...Read Review
