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Reviews of some 20,000+ historical fiction books
Not Our Kind
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A fun, absorbing read, Kitty Zeldis’ Not Our Kind takes place in post-WWII New York City. Two women of opposite social and religious ...Read Review
The Mercy Seat
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Louisiana, 1943. An 18-year-old African American man sits alone in his cell awaiting his execution. His crime is the alleged rape of a white ...Read Review
Into the Darkness
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The third volume of the Storms of War trilogy is set in the1920s through the brink of World War II in both ...Read Review
It Begins in Betrayal
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In this fourth tale in Whishaw’s Lane Winslow series, readers are treated to not one, but two, intricately plotted—make that cross-plotted—...Read Review
Sins of the Father
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Prague socialite Beatrix (Trixie) von Falklenburg is called in by the police to assist in the murder investigation of a headless man found ...Read Review
An Act of Villainy
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“You’ve stumbled upon another body,” Inspector Jones says to the wife-and-husband sleuth team Amory and Milo Ames. It’s in fact the ...Read Review
Side by Side
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Biographical FictionMystery/Crime
In the early 1930s, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow’s quest for their own Holy Grail is their need to find “the farm” – ...Read Review
The Madonna of the Mountains
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This is the story of one woman’s struggles to maintain her marriage and particularly to protect her children during the Fascist Era ...Read Review
House of Gold
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The Goldbaums are a wealthy Jewish family with considerable political and economic influence throughout Europe. It is 1911, and the world has little inkling ...Read Review
The Pear Tree
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This indie gem is a gripping and historically authentic recounting of the 1942 assassination of Nazi leader Reinhardt Heydrich in Czechoslovakia, the hunting and ...Read Review