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Reviews of some 15,000 historical fiction books
Flight to Freedom
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Lieutenant Commander Terry Cook is skipper of the USS Tanager, an obsolescent minesweeper in the wrong place at the wrong time. The place ...Read Review
My Father’s House (The Rome Escape Line Trilogy, 1)
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A black Daimler races through the war-torn streets of Rome for a hospital on a dark December night—sleet and rain, car swerving, ...Read Review
The Lost English Girl
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This story is set against the backdrop of World War II and the eventual evacuation of thousands of British children from the cities ...Read Review
The Elopement
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London, 1897: In the Blythes’ palatial Highgate home, Pansy, a 23-year-old maid, loathes her job but stays because she is in love with John ...Read Review
Jamie MacGillivray: The Renegade’s Journey
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Scotland, 1746, and Jamie MacGillivray, shivering in the rain, brings a message from France to Lord Lovat, the Auld Fox, his Hogarth portrait vividly ...Read Review
A Taste of Betrayal: A Faith Clarke Mystery
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In 1775 Williamsburg, the colonial capital of Virginia, tempers flare between loyalists to King George III and patriots craving independence. Tavern keeper Faith Clarke, ...Read Review
Legionary: The Emperor’s Shield
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The latest book in the Legionary series takes place in the Roman Empire of 386 AD. Although I had not read any of the ...Read Review
Ethel’s Song: Ethel Rosenberg’s Life in Poems
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
The political morass of the Rosenberg story—the arrest and trial of Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg and her husband, Julius, on charges of treason ...Read Review
What Child is This?
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During the Christmas holidays in London, Sherlock Holmes finds himself investigating two cases. A wealthy couple’s child has been the target of ...Read Review
Death in a Time of Spanish Flu (Emily Cabot Mysteries Book 9)
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This ninth Emily Cabot mystery opens in October 1918 in Chicago. Emily is married to Dr. Stephen Chapman and hasn’t really caught up ...Read Review