Reviews
Reviews of some 15,000 historical fiction books
The Monastery Murders (A Stanton and Barling Mystery)
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The Monastery Murders is the second of E.M. Powell’s mysteries set in the late 12th century and featuring the crime-fighting duo ...Read Review
The Splendor Before the Dark: A Novel of the Emperor Nero
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Margaret George’s epic novel, the second of two about the emperor Nero (after The Confessions of Young Nero), begins with Rome on ...Read Review
The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter
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Grace Darling loves life on Longstone Island, in Northumberland, England, where she helps her father with lighthouse duties at night and collects specimens ...Read Review
The Corset (UK) / The Poison Thread (US)
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This Victorian gothic tale, about two very different women whose lives intertwine, narrates the story of seamstress, Ruth, imprisoned for horrific murders, and ...Read Review
Pleasing Mr Pepys
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Deb Willett is employed in the household of the diarist Samuel Pepys as a companion for his wife. She is there to help ...Read Review
The Inquisitor: Volume 5 (Thomas Berrington Historical Mystery)
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Brilliant doctor Thomas Berrington comes to Seville as personal physician to Spanish Queen Isabel during her pregnancy, in the years before the kingdom ...Read Review
Echo Hall
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Newly married Ruth Flint comes to live at Echo Hall on the Anglo-Welsh border in 1990 with her husband, Adam. His grandfather, Jack, is ...Read Review
Murder in Belgravia
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London, May 1915. Lady Harriet Murcheson has confessed to the murder of her husband, but will only divulge the details to a married woman ...Read Review
Albi
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Albi is a “then” and “now” story of an effect of the Spanish Civil War, specifically on the rural village of El Rincon, ...Read Review
A Fortune to India
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Sergeant-Major Jack Finch returns home from the Crimea to deliver the effects of Captain James Fortune to his grieving fiancée, Lady Eleanor. ...Read Review