Reviews

Reviews of some 20,000+ historical fiction books

A Twist at the End: A Novel of O’Henry

By Steven Saylor - Published 2000

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

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

By Josh Russell - Published 1999

Genres:

Literary

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

By Van Reid - Published 1999

Genres:

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

By John Reed - Published 2000

Genres:

Literary

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.)

By James Reasoner - Published 2000

Genres:

Saga

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

By Cheryl Anne Porter - Published 2000

Genres:

RomanceWestern

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

By Neila Skinner Petrick - Published 2000

Genres:

Biographical FictionWestern

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

By Richard Parry - Published 2000

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

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

By Robin Paige - Published 2000

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

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

By Alistair MacLeod - Published 2000

Genres:

LiterarySaga

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