2020
An Unconventional Countess (Regency Belles of Bath)
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1806. Ashore after being wounded at the Battle of Trafalgar, Captain Samuel Delaney is visiting his grandmother when he meets Anna Fortini. Though strongly ...Read Review
The Vineyards of Champagne
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Rosalyn Acosta, suffering from the loss of her husband, agrees to a business trip to Champagne, France, as a way to begin the ...Read Review
If Anyone Asks, Say I Died from the Heartbreaking Blues
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Genre is a problematic concept. Is Philip Cioffari’s delightful tragicomedy a novel with a soundtrack, or a musical on paper? It certainly ...Read Review
Above the Bay of Angels
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When Isabella Waverly enters service at fifteen to support her younger sister, she knows she will never regain the affluent status her family ...Read Review
Hocus Girl (A Simon Westow mystery)
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In Leeds in 1822, Simon Westow is a “thief-taker,” someone who restores stolen goods to their original owners. Now his dear friend, Davey Ashton, ...Read Review
The Founding Fortunes: How the Wealthy Paid for and Profited from America’s Revolution
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Author Shachtman (How the French Saved America) dispels more myths of the Revolutionary and early Federal period in this study of finances and ...Read Review
The Good Cop
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Set largely in Germany in the years between 1918 and 1945, The Good Cop is a tale about three individuals: Willi Geismeier, a detective who ...Read Review
Summer of Love
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I appreciate that it is often the publisher rather than the author who chooses the title for a book and for commercial rather ...Read Review
A Death in Chelsea (Mayfair 100 series)
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This is the second in the Mayfair 100 series. (The first, Murder in Belgravia, I reviewed for HNR 86 as an online review.) July 1915: Chief ...Read Review
The Joyce Girl
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In Zurich in 1934, Lucia, the emotionally frail daughter of iconic Irish author James Joyce, is undergoing the “talking cure” with Carl Jung, trying ...Read Review
