Author: Sophia

The Maid by Amy D’Orazio and Jessie Lewis #AmyD'Orazio #QuillsandQuartos #KindleUnlimited @sophiarose1816

The Maid by Amy D’Orazio and Jessie Lewis #AmyD'Orazio  #QuillsandQuartos #KindleUnlimited @sophiarose1816

A maid with a mysterious past finds herself the object of a young lord’s interest.  Something tells her this is about more than the usual attempt to seduce a servant and if she believes his surmise about their connection, her life has just changed forever.  Both Jessie Lewis and Amy D’Orazio have separately written books […]

Posted October 30, 2024 by Sophia in Book Review / 8 Comments

Murder at Mallowan Hall by Colleen Cambridge @colleengleason @sophiarose1816 #KindleUnlimited

Murder at Mallowan Hall by Colleen Cambridge @colleengleason @sophiarose1816  #KindleUnlimited

A middle-aged couple are hosting a country house party, a dead body is found on her library rug.  Does this set up sound familiar?  Oh, yes it does and that middle-aged couple?  None other than Agatha Christie and her archeologist husband, Max Mallowan.  Of course I had to read Colleen Cambridge’s mystery series set in […]

Posted October 27, 2024 by Sophia in Book Review / 12 Comments

Murder in Highbury by Vanessa Kelly @vanessakellyauthor @kensingtonbooks @Austenprose @sophiarose1816

Murder in Highbury by Vanessa Kelly @vanessakellyauthor @kensingtonbooks @Austenprose  @sophiarose1816

When Jane Austen’s delightful Matchmaker stumbles on a body, Emma finds a new interest to devote her time.  Vanessa Kelly has written some engaging historical romantic suspenses, but I was over the top thrilled when she took up her pen to write a murder mystery and sequel set in the world of Jane Austen’s Emma. […]

Posted October 23, 2024 by Sophia in Blog Tour, Book Review / 14 Comments

Specters in the Glass House by Jaime Jo Wright @jaimejowright @bethany_house @Austenprose @sophiarose1816 @bethanyhousefiction

Specters in the Glass House by Jaime Jo Wright @jaimejowright @bethany_house @Austenprose  @sophiarose1816 @bethanyhousefiction

A mysterious woman, a ghostly house, and a serial killer in the past are the research subject for a present-day woman who discovers the deadly secrets from the past have reawakened.  Jaime Jo Wright has a gift for dual-timeline suspense.  This is only my second visit to her books, but the experience rivaled my first […]

Posted October 16, 2024 by Sophia in Blog Tour, Book Review / 10 Comments

Lessons in Exposing a Deadly Alias by Charlie Cochrane @charliecochrane @sophiarose1816 #KindleUnlimited

Lessons in Exposing a Deadly Alias by Charlie Cochrane @charliecochrane @sophiarose1816  #KindleUnlimited

The Cambridge dons are back in action as a detective team, but this time their helping out a fellow professor accused of murder. Charlie Cochrane’s Cambridge Fellows has long been an auto-buy historical cozy mystery series set against the world of academia in Edwardian and post WWI England with a cerebral pair of forbidden lovers as […]

Posted October 9, 2024 by Sophia in Book Review, Sunday Series / 10 Comments

Darcy’s Struggle by Kelly Dean Jolley #KellyDeanJolley @MerytonPress #KindleUnlimited @sophiarose1816

Darcy’s Struggle by Kelly Dean Jolley #KellyDeanJolley @MerytonPress #KindleUnlimited @sophiarose1816

When Darcy encounters ‘The One’ – the only woman for him, this should have been a moment of triumph, but instead, starts a thought-provoking emotional journey of the heart to win a woman’s love.  I’ve read two enjoyable mystery romps from Kelly Dean Jolley and I was aware that he wrote a few Jane Austen-related […]

Posted September 25, 2024 by Sophia in Book Review / 10 Comments

🎧 Wormhole by Eric Brown, Keith Brooke #EricBrown #KeithBrooke #EricMichaelSummerer @TantorAudio #LoveAudiobooks @sophiarose1816

🎧 Wormhole by Eric Brown, Keith Brooke #EricBrown #KeithBrooke #EricMichaelSummerer @TantorAudio #LoveAudiobooks @sophiarose1816

A cold case in the future sends a middle-aged detective and his younger superior on an investigative adventure that will reveal secrets from eighty years in the past that have consequences for the present.  Both authors and narrator were all new to me, but I couldn’t pass up this sci-fi thriller after reading the blurb. […]

Posted September 18, 2024 by Sophia in Book Review / 10 Comments