Jazz Age
The Forty Elephants
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If you have a weakness for lawless female characters, as I do, then this is the book for you. The Forty Elephants was ...Read Review
Harlem Sunset (A Harlem Renaissance Mystery)
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This novel, second in the Harlem Renaissance Mystery series, is a continuation, not a standalone. Not having read Dead Dead Girls first, it ...Read Review
Tears Over Russia: A Search for Family and the Legacy of Ukraine’s Pogroms
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This meticulously researched book tells the story not only of the author’s family during the anti-Jewish pogroms, from 1917 until their escape to ...Read Review
A Certain Darkness (A Verity Kent Mystery)
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In this sixth outing of the popular Verity Kent mystery series, World War I combat has ended, and Verity’s given-up-for-dead husband Sidney ...Read Review
When the Meadow Blooms
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Kentucky, 1925. Widow Rose Meadows is in a tuberculosis sanatorium, hoping to be released so she can recover her daughters, teenage Calla and nine-year-old ...Read Review
The Blunder
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The bulk of Mutt-Lon’s The Blunder takes place in 1929, a time when, as he relates in his author’s note, “Cameroon was… ...Read Review
The Lost Son
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The Lost Son is a story of a mother’s heartbreak and enduring love. Julia and her new husband, Robert, immigrate to Queens, ...Read Review
The Bangalore Detectives Club
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“Women’s dreams were only as big as their husbands’ egos would permit them to be,” thinks Kaveri Murthy, who has recently moved ...Read Review
The Echoes (The Kinship Series, 4)
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It’s the Fourth of July in 1928 in Kinship, Ohio, and the hardscrabble town is celebrating the opening of an amusement park dedicated ...Read Review
The Science of Murder: The Forensics of Agatha Christie / Murder Isn’t Easy: The Forensics of Agatha Christie
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The subtitle of this book about says it all: it’s a compendium of different aspects of forensic science, viewed through Agatha Christie’...Read Review