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Reviews of some 20,000+ historical fiction books
A Gathering Of Spies
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In 1933, Katarina Heinrich murders a co-worker and assumes her identity and her job as a professor’s housekeeper. By the time her employer ...Read Review
Miss Darby’s Duenna
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Sheri Cobb South has written a delightful Regency about what happens when the groom-to-be in a marriage of convenience between the offspring of ...Read Review
Brighton Honeymoon
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This delightful Regency is the sequel to The Weaver Takes a Wife (1999). While this book stands alone, having made the acquaintance of several ...Read Review
Letters from Yellowstone
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A. E. Bartram, a medical student at Cornell University though a botanist at heart, writes to Professor H. G. Merriam of Montana, asking ...Read Review
The Palace
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At the beginning of The Palace, the narrator, a young soldier in Garibaldi’s army, narrowly escapes execution by firing squad. When he ...Read Review
My Dark Prince
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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
The Battle
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Anyone interested in the Napoleonic Era is blessed with a large and continually expanding list of books and journals, fiction and non-fiction. Popular ...Read Review
Mollie Peer: Or the Underground Adventure of the Moosepath League
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The first book in this series of adventures of the Moosepath League, Cordelia Underwood, took place in the summer of 1896. This, the second, ...Read Review
Faded Coat of Blue (Abel Jones Mysteries)
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In autumn 1861 a young man is found shot through the heart, his body lying near an encampment south of the Potomac. The murdered ...Read Review
Mr Darwin’s Shooter
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In 1832, a ship named Beagle sailed, carrying Charles Darwin and his assistant Syms Covington. Syms served as Darwin’s shooter, collecting specimens for ...Read Review