Marilyn Sherlock
All the Lives We Never Lived
Genres:
Anuradha Roy is rated as one of India’s greatest living writers, and if this book is any guide I can see why. ...Read Review
The Magpie Tree
Genres:
1844 on Bodmin Moor. Anna Drake wants to set up her own detective agency at a time when this service was very new and ...Read Review
Wrecker
Genres:
The action of this book takes place “ten years after the French wars or thereabouts”. It is set in Cornwall at a time ...Read Review
The Baltic Prize
Genres:
The Baltic Prize takes us to Scandinavia at the beginning of the 19th century. The Anglo-Russian War, September 1807–1812, took place after Russia signed ...Read Review
Jane Seymour: The Haunted Queen
Genres:
Set in Tudor England, this novel is about the third Queen to Henry VIII. Katherine of Aragon is divorced for failing to provide ...Read Review
The Poppy Girls
Genres:
The Poppy Girls takes us to Belgium during World War I. The Poppy Girls of the title form part of a quick-response group ...Read Review
Pandora’s Boy
Genres:
This is another story in the Falco series set in Rome in the first century AD. It concerns Falco’s daughter, Flavia, who ...Read Review
This Deceitful Light
Genres:
This book, set against the English Civil War, begins with the Battle of Newbury in 1643. The plot includes the murder of a young ...Read Review
An Orphan in the Snow
Genres:
In this story we go to Liverpool during WWII. The heroine, June Lavender, takes a job as assistant to Mrs. Pherson, the Matron ...Read Review
The Cardinal’s Man
Genres:
With this book we are back in 17th-century France, with Louis XIII on the throne. He became king at the age of eight ...Read Review