jay Dixon
For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain
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As the author says in her note, this is a work of fiction, based on B. A. Windeatt’s translation of The Book ...Read Review
The Heretic’s Mark (The Jackdaw Mysteries 4)
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This is the third Jackdaw novel which I have reviewed for the HNS, and which I enjoyed as much as ever. S. W. ...Read Review
The Drowned City
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This novel, set in 1606, opens with an excellent description of the Bristol tsunami of that year, in which a body of a woman ...Read Review
The Silver Collar
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The Silver Collar is the fourth in Antonia Hodgson’s series about Thomas Hawkins and Kitty Sparks. I had read the first – The ...Read Review
The Saracen’s Mark (The Jackdaw Mysteries)
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Despite its length (I don’t like books over 400 pages) I enjoyed this book, the third in Perry’s Mark series and to ...Read Review
Wicked By Design
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This is the sequel to False Lights (2017), written under the name K J Whittaker, although it can be read as a stand-alone novel. ...Read Review
The Cornish Lady (Cornish Saga)
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This novel is well-written in the first person, with interesting characters and an intricate plot which is resolved happily – the villains are caught ...Read Review
The Angel’s Mark
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When I started this book it had, to my mind, multiple strikes against it: it was long, it was written in the present ...Read Review
The Captain’s Girl
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Set in Cornwall in 1793, the early scenes in this book reminded me of Daphne du Maurier’s Frenchman’s Creek. However, the story ...Read Review
False Lights
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The strapline of this book is: ‘What if Napoleon, instead of Wellington, had won the Battle of Waterloo?’ Well, apparently Napoleon continues in ...Read Review