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Reviews of some 25,000+ historical fiction books
Sword of Truth
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1900: Zulfiqar Jaffrey, homesteader and sometimes private detective, is abruptly summoned by telegram from his North Dakota holding to faraway California, where a Punjabi ...Read Review
Ghost Town
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Jay Perry closed the box on his early life at age thirteen after his mother died of cancer and, months later, his volunteer ...Read Review
Miss Morton Takes the Waters
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Miss Morton is the (paid) companion of Mrs. Frogerton, a lady not quite to the manor born but possessing sufficient industrial wealth to ...Read Review
The Half Life
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Following the death of her brother in the Vietnam War, Eileen O’Malley buries her grief and pain in a quick marriage to ...Read Review
The Light of Stars
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Katherine (Kitty) Grenville still remembers her mother, although it has been years since she’s seen her, on the night her grandfather had ...Read Review
Murder at the Spirit Lounge
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1950s Kent. Former nun Nora Breen is bemused when her normally sceptical friend Detective Inspector Rideout accepts an invitation to a private sé...Read Review
Crying in the Chapel: A Swinging Sixties Mystery
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Days before her wedding, Dot Morgan is finalizing details with the wedding coordinator, pastor, soloist and organist at Camden, Texas, Chapel. It’s ...Read Review
Sawadika American Girl
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The epigraph for this young-adult book is David Pollock’s definition of a third-culture kid as “a person who has spent a significant ...Read Review
License to Thrill: Lily Bollinger
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In her recent series, Rosenberg’s goal is to shine light on significant women in history who have previously been overlooked. She achieves ...Read Review
Venus, Vanishing
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Venus, Vanishing begins in Berlin in 1927. Hannah Sherman has run away from home to avoid marriage and to pursue her dream of becoming ...Read Review
