Reviews

Reviews of some 25,000+ historical fiction books

Three Queens

By Rebecca Connolly - Published 2026

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

What if Abigail Adams, Marie Antoinette, and England’s Queen Charlotte struck up a friendship? This is the premise behind Three Queens (Abigail ...Read Review

The Case of Princess Schwarzenberg 1757: Part Two (The Archduchess Investigates Book 2)

By Martina Grenze - Published 2025

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Some time ago, I had the pleasure of meeting the Archduchess Maria Anna—Marianne to her family—in Ms. Grenze’s first book ...Read Review

The Center of the Earth

By Darlene P. Campos - Published 2025

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Excellent YA historical fiction based on real experiences by Jews and Ecuadorians in Germany and Ecuador. The daughter of an Ecuadorian diplomat in ...Read Review

The Sister Behind the Berlin Wall

By Cynthia Anderson - Published 2026

Genres:

Saga

Are you ready for the latest in that blossoming subgenre of books about women in Occupied France? Orphaned young adult sisters Léa ...Read Review

In the Spirit of French Murder (An American In Paris Mystery)

By Colleen Cambridge - Published 2026

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Tabitha Knight attracts death, as the tarot reader tells us, in this fourth installment of Cambridge’s An American in Paris mystery series. ...Read Review

A Siege on Her Heart

By Jessica Brousseau - Published 2026

Genres:

Romance

Peter Ashmore and Ana María Bailon met in the midst of the British siege of San Sebastian during Napoleon’s Spanish campaign. ...Read Review

A Day of Judgment (Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries)

By Charles Todd - Published 2026

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In this 25th series volume, Inspector Ian Rutledge of Scotland Yard is sent to England’s northeast coast to investigate the murder of ...Read Review

Elisabeth: Mother of John the Baptist

By H. B. Moore - Published 2025

Genres:

Biographical FictionInspirational

This gentle story of Elisabeth before she becomes the mother of John the Baptist is an engaging story of an unpretentious woman from ...Read Review

The Dead Ringer

By Dane Bahr - Published 2026

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeWestern

Set in the mid-1930s in Montana, The Dead Ringer is a tautly written crime drama about two brothers who grow up in ...Read Review

All the Tea in China (The Orchid Hunters series)

By Timothy David Mack - Published 2026

Genres:

Adventure

A sequel to The Orchid and the Emerald, this second volume continues the 1820s adventures in China of British officer William Gunn and ...Read Review