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Reviews

Reviews of some 20,000+ historical fiction books

The Perfect Daughter

By Gillian Linscott - Published 2001

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This well written mystery series continues with another strong entry. It is 1914, with the suffragettes still fighting for the right to vote, WWI ...Read Review

So Shall We Stand

By Elyse Larson - Published 2001

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Inspirational Mystery/Crime Thriller

After her husband is killed in the London blitz, Nella Killian returns to her hometown in Wales with her young daughter. The horrors ...Read Review

For Such a Time

By Elyse Larson - Published 2001

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Inspirational Mystery/Crime Romance

Elyse Larson skillfully combines inspiration, romance and suspense in the first novel of the Women of Valor series. Cousins, living across continents, join ...Read Review

The Weeping Woman

By Michael Kilian - Published 2001

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Mystery/Crime

Michael Kilian’s day job consists of writing a weekly newspaper column, mostly commenting with a rather attractive, sly shallowness on the putative ...Read Review

Standing at the Scratch Line

By Guy Johnson - Published 1998 Published 2001

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This is probably the most violent book I have read, but I continued in the knowledge that I was experiencing a part of ...Read Review

Losing Julia

By Jonathan Hull - Published 2001

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Romance

For a first novel, Losing Julia is an amazingly well crafted story. The tale opens as World War I veteran Patrick Delaney, in ...Read Review

Ribbon of Years

By Robin Lee Hatcher - Published 2001

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Inspirational Saga

Julianna, forty-something and disappointed with her life, wanders in on an intimate circle of friends. They have joined to share the memories of ...Read Review

The Red Heifer

By Leo Haber - Published 2001

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Epic

Told from the point of view of a first-generation Jewish immigrant, only five when the story begins, this work deals with the trials ...Read Review

Groucho Marx and the Broadway Murders

By Ron Goulart - Published 2001

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Mystery/Crime

This is Goulart’s fourth in his series featuring Groucho Marx as a detective aided and abetted by Frank Denby, the writer for ...Read Review

Carter Beats the Devil

By Glen David Gold - Published 2001

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Mystery/Crime Thriller

In August 1923, President Harding dies after attending a performance of stage illusionism given by Carter the Great. The capstone of the evening’s ...Read Review