Reviews
Reviews of some 20,000+ historical fiction books
Murder at the Ritz (Hotel Mysteries 1)
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The author is a prolific writer and has embarked upon another themed historical murder-mystery series. While his Museum series volumes have been regularly ...Read Review
Hideous Progeny: Mary Shelley and Her Monster
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Have you ever taken a romantic trip with friends—to Lake Geneva, Switzerland, perhaps—only to be kept inside by rain? In 1818, you ...Read Review
The Drowned City
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This novel, set in 1606, opens with an excellent description of the Bristol tsunami of that year, in which a body of a woman ...Read Review
Bride of the Buddha
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5th century BCE: Prince Siddhartha abandons his wife and his infant son, departing his palace and his life of royal ease to undertake ...Read Review
A Witch in Time
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The novel follows four women through history: Juliet in 1890s Paris, Nora in 1930s Hollywood, Sandra in 1970s California and finally Helen in ...Read Review
The Woman with the Blue Star
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In March 1943, Krakow, Poland is a cold, unforgiving city under increasingly brutal occupation by the Nazis. Eighteen-year-old Sadie has escaped the ‘aktions’ before, ...Read Review
The Widow Queen (The Bold 1)
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Set mainly in Poland, Denmark, and Sweden from about 984 to 997 AD, The Widow Queen is the story of Swietoslawa, daughter of Duke Mieszko ...Read Review
Climate Change: An Archaeological Study
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The thesis of this book is that climate change is nothing new, even during the few tens of thousands of years that mankind ...Read Review
This Side of Hell (A Widowmaker Jones Western)
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This Side of Hell is the fourth in Brett Cogburn’s Widowmaker Jones Series. Here, Newt “Widowmaker” Jones joins a posse (mostly good ...Read Review
Tokyo Redux
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Tokyo Redux centers around the mysterious death of Sadanori Shimoyama, President of Japanese National Railways, on July 5, 1949—when the beleaguered bureaucrat disappeared. He ...Read Review
