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Reviews of some 20,000+ historical fiction books
The Good Assassin
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Oh, Cuba. Castro casts a long shadow, making it difficult to remember when he wasn’t in power. The Good Assassin takes the ...Read Review
Maggie’s War
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Maggie Marshall keeps her father’s legacy alive by continuing to keep his restaurant open during wartime in 1940s Manitoba. She also houses ...Read Review
The Reek of Red Herrings
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1930: Dandy Gilver and her sidekick, Alec Osborne, take on a daunting task. Several barrels of a prestigious herring processor’s product have been ...Read Review
The Angel’s Share
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Who would imagine that in 1934 an Old Sam Bourbon distillery, at the root of the conflict in The Angels’ Share, might be the ...Read Review
Old News: An Edna Ferber Mystery
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It’s a hot, airless summer in 1923 Chicago, and writer Edna Ferber and her mother are visiting family friends, the Newmanns. Edna is ...Read Review
With Love, Wherever You Are
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This book blends fiction, non-fiction and letters into a WWII love story. Helen Eberhart enlists as a nurse after the attack on Pearl ...Read Review
A Hope at the End of the World
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In 1944, with WWII raging, two Polish orphans, 16-year-old Luzyna and 19-year-old Helena, are surviving in the relative safety of a refugee camp in ...Read Review
Tangier
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In 1995, Christopher Chaffee, dismissed from his government position for padding his budget receipts by thousands of dollars, arrives in Tangier, depressed and disgruntled ...Read Review
Cave Dwellers
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What if the military opposition to Hitler’s regime had organized early enough to prevent the invasion of Czechoslovakia and the world war ...Read Review
The Cutthroat: An Isaac Bell Adventure
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Pity poor Justin Scott, who’s listed as the co-author of nine of the ten books in Clive Cussler’s Isaac Bell Adventures ...Read Review