Reviews
Reviews of some 20,000+ historical fiction books
A Twist at the End: A Novel of O’Henry
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Jack the Ripper is arguably the most notorious serial killer of all time, fictional and non-fictional. And yet “The Servant Girl Annihilator” of ...Read Review
Yellow Jack: A Novel
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Early in Yellow Jack, the principal character’s father falls victim to a biting-robbery-murder during an outdoor encounter with a Parisian prostitute. A ...Read Review
Cordelia Underwood, or the Marvelous Beginnings of the Moosepath League
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After reading so many westerns over the course of the years, it comes as a distinct pleasure to read an “eastern” for a ...Read Review
A Still Small Voice
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A Still Small Voice is a beautiful novel reminiscent of Frazier’s Cold Mountain not only because of the Civil War time period ...Read Review
Manassas: v. 8 (Civil War Battle) (Civil War Battle S.)
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These three novels are the first of a projected eight-volume set on the American Civil War as seen through the eyes of one ...Read Review
Prairie Song
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Kate Chandler flees New York City for the wilds of Oklahoma and the Great Land Run, hoping to escape a dark and dangerous ...Read Review
Jane Long of Texas: 1798-1880
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Spanish Texas of the early nineteenth century was a strange, wild land. It took extraordinary men to settle this land. It took even ...Read Review
That Fateful Lightning
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A dying and destitute Ulysses S. Grant must write his memoirs to bring financial security to his wife and family. Mark Twain will ...Read Review
Death at Whitechapel
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In this sixth book by husband-and-wife writing team Robin Paige, detectives Sir Charles Sheridan and his wife, Kate Ardleigh, are plunged into the ...Read Review
No Great Mischief
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On Cape Breton Island, the Gaelic stronghold of Nova Scotia — a land of windswept crags and rocky shores — memories of years long past ...Read Review