Reviews

Reviews of some 20,000+ historical fiction books

A Citizen of the Country

By Sarah Smith - Published 2000

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Mystery/CrimeSagaThriller

Fantasize about reading a novel in Paris, Boston, but mostly in and around the city of Arras, in northern France, a region commonly ...Read Review

Thunder on the Mountain: A Novel of 1936 (Hemlock County)

By David Poyer - Published 2000

Genres:

Adventure

The “Thunder” of the titles can be explained in at least different ways. (1) Thunder Oil of Pennsylvania, a family dynasty under the control ...Read Review

Murder Me Now

By Annette Meyers - Published 2001

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

This is Meyers’ second mystery featuring Olivia Brown, a Greenwich Village poet in Prohibition 1920s. A nanny is murdered during a country house ...Read Review

The Last Days of Summer

By Steve Kluger - Published 1999

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At its core, this is a simple tale of a boy and a man whose paths meet and merge, to the betterment of ...Read Review

When the Lilacs Bloom

By Linda Colwell - Published 2000

Genres:

RomanceTime-slip

Linda Colwell has created a memorable villain in the person of Mother Langford. Her gothic vision of the mother-in-law from hell counterbalances the ...Read Review

The Witness

By Richard S. Wheeler - Published 2000

Genres:

AdventureWestern

It is western postmaster Horatio Bates who tells this story and makes a small but still significant role in it – the first of ...Read Review

The Rocky Mountain Moving Picture Association

By Loren D. Estleman - Published 2000

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Movies are a large part of everyone’s life today, whether viewed in theaters, seen as videos at home, or the basis of ...Read Review

Lady-lessons

By Sarah Starr - Published 2000

Genres:

Romance

A Regency romance, this novel details the unusual courtship between Julian, Earl of Ashley, and his grandmother’s god-daughter Virginia Traynor, called Ginger. ...Read Review

My Dark Prince

By Julia Ross - Published 2000

Genres:

Historical FantasyRomance

I almost didn’t make it beyond the first fifty pages of this book. Our introduction to the main characters—Nicholas, Sovereign Prince ...Read Review

Edge of Honor: A Novel

By Gilbert Morris - Published 2000

Genres:

InspirationalMilitary

Christian author Gilbert Morris gives us the story of Quentin Laribee, a young surgeon conscripted into the Union army at the end of ...Read Review