Reviews

Reviews of some 20,000+ historical fiction books

Crime Through Time III

By Sharan Newman (ed.) - Published 2000

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Mystery/CrimeShort Stories

The eighteen stories in this volume take us from ancient Rome to 20th century America. English and US settings predominate, though there are ...Read Review

In Babylon

By Marcel Möring - Published 2000

Genres:

LiterarySaga

It’s easy to see why In Babylon already has been lauded by European critics and has garnered numerous awards on that side ...Read Review

Breath and Shadows

By Ella Leffland - Published 2000

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LiterarySaga

Three generations of the Rosteds, a Danish family, come to life in sparkling snapshots in Breath and Shadows. We read, in alternating segments, ...Read Review

More Than You Know: A Novel

By Beth Gutcheon - Published 2000

Genres:

LiteraryThriller

Two stories, set in the small coastal town of Dundee, Maine, fifty years apart, converge in this enthralling novel. In the present day, ...Read Review

The Summoning God (Anasazi Mysteries)

By Kathleen O'Neal Gear - Published 2000

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The Gears are well known for their award-winning novels about Native Americans and in their latest series have turned their attention to the ...Read Review

Hawke’S Cove C

By Susan Wilson - Published 2000

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Romance

Forbidden love that is forever young, wartime romance granted by a passion of place, redeems lovers from sin. After a prologue and framing ...Read Review

A Reckoning of Angels

By Stuart James Whitley - Published 2000

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

The Canadian novel is a closed book to most Yankees, once one gets past Margaret Atwood, Mordecai Richler, Robertson Davies, or Farley Mowat. ...Read Review

Altar Music

By Christin Lore Weber - Published 2000

Genres:

LiterarySaga

Three twentieth-century women experience crises of religious faith in this lyrical first novel, set in rural northern Minnesota between 1917 and 1965. For Megan and ...Read Review

Murder On St.Mark’s Place: A Gaslight Mystery (Gaslight Mysteries)

By Victoria Thompson - Published 2000

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

This novel is Victoria Thompson’s second book in the Gaslight Mystery series. Her midwife detective Sarah Brandt once again teams up with ...Read Review

June

By Mary Sanders Smith - Published 2000

Genres:

LiterarySaga

June is set in the rural community of Ashton, Illinois, during 1940. The novel depicts life in a farming community as well as the ...Read Review