jay Dixon
A Fatal Freedom
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Set in London in 1903, this is a sequel to Deadly Inheritance, which is referred to occasionally in this novel with such phrases as ...Read Review
Nothing Undone Remained
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I’m not the target audience for this as I am not interested in, for instance, cricket, which according to Roderick, the Edwardian ...Read Review
The Dead Queen’s Garden
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This is the third in Slade’s Charlotte Richmond Investigates series, set in Hampshire, England, in 1858. Her previous books have been praised by ...Read Review
Autumn Softly Fell
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Although very different, this book is obviously inspired by Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden, with an abandoned heroine of eight becoming ...Read Review
A Christmas Hope
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Set in December 1868, Perry’s A Christmas Hope is the eleventh Christmas novella she has written. The heroine is Claudine Burroughs, a woman ...Read Review
The Jacobite Murders
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According to the back cover blurb G M Best has received good reviews for his previous books, and it is true that the ...Read Review
A Crown of Despair
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I was rather surprised to find myself enjoying this novel, as it is written in the first-person present tense, with multiple viewpoints – three ...Read Review
Murder in Montague Place
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This is the first adult novel by Martyn Beardsley, a prolific children’s author. Set in the Victorian world of the recently formed ...Read Review
Running Against the Tide
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It is 1800, and Ginny Marcombe is the son her father, Josiah, never had. She works with him in his shipping firm in the ...Read Review
The Heresy of Dr Dee
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The second book in Rickman’s John Dee series takes Dee to his father’s home in Wales. Set against the aftermath of ...Read Review
