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Reviews of some 25,000+ historical fiction books
Death of a Siren
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This is a well-paced detective story set in the pre-World War II Galapagos. Fred Freiman is a former New York cop on the ...Read Review
The Accidental Agent: A Jimmy Nessheim Novel
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Jimmy Nessheim (Fear Itself, The Little Tokyo Informant) is back for a third adventure, and up to his chin in troubles that the ...Read Review
The Secret Language of Stones
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The Secret Language of Stones is M. J. Rose’s second novel in the Daughters of La Lune trilogy, which started with the ...Read Review
Cajun Waltz
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A rat-bastard misogynist of a sleazy musician comes into some money when he marries the dumpy daughter of a wealthy businessman. He has ...Read Review
Max Baer and the Star of David
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This short novel employs the literary artifice of a fictional eyewitness account, ostensibly to tell Max Baer’s story from 1929 until his death, ...Read Review
The Human Flies
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One of the best characters in Lahlum’s Norwegian mystery, set in Oslo in 1968, isn’t its lead detective, Kolbein Kristiansen, but Patricia ...Read Review
The Bickford Fuse
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As the Great Patriotic War comes to an uneasy close in 1945, a bizarre assortment of people begin epic journeys across the Soviet Union. ...Read Review
The Dead Don’t Bleed
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“Live free, and the rest will follow.” That was the mantra that Liv, Lieutenant Junior Grade Voight’s sometime-girlfriend, lived by. But Voight ...Read Review
Cocaine Blues
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Bored with London society life in the 1920s, Phryne Fisher returns to her native Australia and finds her calling as a lady detective. ...Read Review
Broken Ground
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When a dream is shattered, sometimes the only thing left to do is to create a new reality, no matter what obstacles are ...Read Review
