Reviews

Christmas at the Women’s Hotel: A Biedermeier Story

By Daniel M Lavery - Published 2025

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Lavery follows up his debut novel, Women’s Hotel, with a seasonal sequel that catches readers up on his charming cast of characters ...Read Review

The Bloomsbury Murder (Blitz Detective)

By Mike Hollow - Published 2025

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Mystery/Crime

London, 1941: this is the tenth novel in Hollow’s Blitz Detective series, in which Detective Inspector Jago investigates the murder of a Canadian ...Read Review

Eyes to Deceit: The Company Files

By Gabriel Valjan - Published 2025

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Thriller

CIA operative Walker is given a choice—accept a mission from CIA Director Dulles or leave the agency. His assignment? Coordinate propaganda for ...Read Review

The Glowing Hours

By Leila Siddiqui - Published 2026

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Historical Fantasy

Seeking respite from scandal, Mary Godwin and her then-lover, Percy Bysshe Shelley, met Lord Byron and his physician, John Polidori, at Lake Geneva ...Read Review

The House of Widows: Volume 4 in The Family of William Neilson

By James Buchan - Published 2025

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AdventureSaga

James Buchan’s novels are not for the faint-hearted. They are replete with deep historical research, arcane information about political, economic and military ...Read Review

Queens at War

By Alison Weir - Published 2025

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Nonfiction

Kings get a lot of attention and name recognition, but we often don’t remember or even consider the queens who ruled beside (...Read Review

Did You Have the Life You Wanted?

By Andrea Simon - Published 2025

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New York City, 1968. Anita, a nice Jewish girl fresh out of college, leaves Brooklyn for an apartment in the West Village without noticing ...Read Review

Steel Machines

By Dan Franklin - Published 2025

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Historical Fantasy

Steel Machines is a novella set in Prague in 1945. Eight-year-old Otto and his parents are hiding in the attic of their own home, ...Read Review

The Pohaku

By Jasmin Iolani Hakes - Published 2026

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For generations, the women of a Hawaiian family have been entrusted with safekeeping the pōhaku, a sacred stone with profound mystical powers. ...Read Review

It Girl

By Allison Pataki - Published 2026

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Pataki offers a detailed explanation about why and how she altered the names, and more importantly, the climactic outcome of the famous “Crime ...Read Review