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Reviews of some 15,000 historical fiction books
An Old, Cold Grave
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Independent and intelligent, Lane Winslow, although only in her twenties, has abandoned her wartime career as a secret agent, along with her native ...Read Review
See Also Proof
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This is the third book in Larry Sweazy’s mystery series featuring Marjorie Trumaine, who works as a freelance book indexer while running ...Read Review
223 Orchard Street
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Orchard Street, on New York City’s Lower East Side, was the destination of many immigrants in the late 19th and early 20th ...Read Review
Blueprint
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This well-researched novel covers in great detail life in Berlin from just before the Russian invasion until after the Nuremberg Trials. Our protagonist, ...Read Review
A Song Unheard
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As the Great War commences, Willa Forsyth, violin prodigy and accomplished thief, is recruited by the British government. Her assignment: to retrieve a ...Read Review
Country Dark
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It’s been almost twenty years since Offutt’s last work of fiction, but the wait has been worth it. In Country Dark, ...Read Review
Emilia
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Emilia is a Jewish teenager volunteering in a Polish hospital during WWII. When the Germans first take control of her city, life isn’...Read Review
Ain’t Misbehavin’
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Dot Rodgers’ charlatan preacher father turned her off faith. Now she’s a vivacious singer struggling to get her career off the ground ...Read Review
The Hawkman
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Just after WWI in the fictional British village of Bridgetonne, American Eva Williams takes a position as teacher of mythology at the local ...Read Review
The Dead
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This is a dark, atmospheric novel, set at the end of the Weimar Republic in both Europe and Japan. Emil Nägeli, a ...Read Review