Reviews

Reviews of some 25,000+ historical fiction books

On Sundays She Picked Flowers

By Yah Yah Scholfield - Published 2026

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In this stunning debut novel, a middle-aged African American woman flees to the North Georgia woods after a shocking act of violence, forcing ...Read Review

When They Came Home

By Terri Lewis - Published 2026

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Biographical Fiction

Based on the lives of the author’s grandparents, this novella depicts the life of Milton Fieth, a 21-year-old farm boy from Missouri ...Read Review

The Vampyre Client: An Irregular Detective Mystery, Book 4

By Jeri Westerson - Published 2026

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Mystery/Crime

London, 1895. Bats! Who wants them? Just the newest client to walk through the door of 49B Dean Street to engage the Irregular Detectives ...Read Review

Danger at Darkmoor Park (The Audacious Sisterhood of Smoke & Fire)

By Syrie James - Published 2025

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Mystery/Crime

It’s Christmas 1852, and Selena’s patroness is hosting a house party in the stately home that houses her girls’ school. Guests known ...Read Review

Vengeance in Venice (A Jane Wunderly Mystery)

By Erica Ruth Neubauer - Published 2026

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Mystery/Crime

Venice, 1927. While attending an exotic costume ball on the Grand Canal during their honeymoon in Venice, newlywed detectives, Jane Wunderly and her husband, ...Read Review

Delhi – City of Spies

By Melanie Singh Hughes - Published 2025

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The novel, set in 1950s India, has three different narrators with distinctly different voices. Nita, who has been there a long time and ...Read Review

The Disciple: A Wagnerian Tale of the Gilded Age

By Joseph Horowitz - Published 2026

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Biographical Fiction

Hungarian conductor Anton Seidl is leading the New York Metropolitan Opera and introducing American audiences to the works of Richard Wagner in the ...Read Review

The River Warriors (Savage Isle series Book 2)

By Michael Arnold - Published 2026

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AdventureEpic

Arnold’s second epic sizzles with energy as it continues the story from The Savage Isle. Cullen goatherd, now Cullen Wolf Scourge of ...Read Review

Heiress of Nowhere

By Stacey Lee - Published 2026

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Children/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy

The main character of this Gothic, part-fantasy, young adult historical novel is 18-year-old Lucy. In 1918 she lives and works on a great estate ...Read Review

Courtly Collusion

By Susan Leona Fisher - Published 2025

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Mystery/Crime

Pier Nugent is unfortunate enough to be born as the tenth child to his parents. An afterthought, several years after his closest sibling, ...Read Review