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The Spy and the Snake
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You’ve had cosy crime for over a century, so how about cosy espionage? Spy stories are typically violent and often dark. Not ...Read Review
Daughter of Genoa
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Historian Devereaux’s intensive research gives us a glimpse into the lives of Italian Jews in occupied Genoa. The action begins in April 1944 ...Read Review
L.A. Women
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It’s 1975, and Lane Warren is an L.A. fixture, a legendary writer and journalist and now a mother of twins. But it’...Read Review
The Moonlit Piazza (Casa Maria 2)
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Italy, WWII. This sequel to The Village Trattoria is described as a standalone, but I would disagree. It picks up where the previous ...Read Review
Mrs Spy
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This book is set in 1965 and is told in the very observant but self-deprecating voice of Maggie Flynn, a 45-year-old ‘Watcher’ – one of ...Read Review
The Paris Dancer
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Anyone hankering for more glitz and glamour as BBC TV’s Strictly Come Dancing packs up the glitterball for another year may find ...Read Review
A Maid on Fifth Avenue
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1920s Ballydrynawn, West Kerry. Annie Thornton ties a white lace handkerchief to the Fairy Tree, hoping the magic will cure her mother. But ...Read Review
The Girls Who Dared to Love
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1914, London, and Lucinda McFarlane, presented for her coming-out into society, curtseys to the King and Queen. She launches into a whirlwind season of ...Read Review
My Lady’s Secrets
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This is a Regency novel in that it is set in 1812, during the Regency, and it is populated by the sort of people ...Read Review
The Witch’s Daughter
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This follow-up to Edwards-Jones’ The Witches of St Petersburg continues the story of Grand Duchess Militza Nikolayevna and her sister Grand Duchess Anastasia. ...Read Review
