As war rages across Europe, North Africa, and the Pacific, a married woman with her husband overseas tries to keep the home fires burning for herself and her children all while a serial killer is taking out the women Rosies working the factories of Seattle. Kevin O’Brien is a known mystery writer to me for […]
A researcher and her coworkers take a DNA test and a sister she never knew she had messages her from Puerto Rico. Familia is part women’s fiction and part mystery and I was all intrigued for a mystery story set in Puerto Rico. Lauren Rico introduces her book with an explanation of how it came […]
A story based on a real life woman writer, Irmgard Keun, who dared to stand against the Nazis? I couldn’t not enthusiastically take up The Novelist From Berlin by a new to me author about her own original heroine, Marie ‘Niki’ Rittenhaus. The Novelist From Berlin opens with a prologue from a seventy-one year old […]
A house full of ghosts and old, dark family secrets and a woman who realizes the answers are locked inside her shadowy memories of the past. Dark and ominous, my first bout with Shannon Morgan’s Gothic Fiction will not be my last. Her Little Flowers is a ghost story that is seated in a fifty […]
I reviewed The Aeronaut’s Windlass in 2015 when first released and read a print paperback ARC. I loved it with all the hearts. I am going to repeat my 2015 review here and follow with my update of reading in 2023 with an eARC and the audio I purchased. I am relieved I decided […]
I’ve been really enjoying the Well Met series with its setting in renaissance faires. In each book, we meet more of the regular performers who travel the circuit of faires. One wouldn’t have to read the series in order, but I do because of the character developments and knowing more about the supporting characters. The […]
Bringing the ancient and mystical land of Egypt, during the time of the Pharaohs, alive, with a semblance of authenticity and a story to engage the reader, is no mean feat. I saw the title on this one and then read the blurb. I was compelled to read it and hopefully discover a new to […]
Always the overlooked, plain daughter, but what will she do with the chance to become something more? Lovers of underdog heroines, curious mysteries, and historical settings that bring the past to life need look no further for your reading pleasure. I was tickled to give this delightful debutant book in the series a go. The […]
I really enjoy the Life Fiction stories this author is writing. They are more authentic with more details and development of multiple characters than one finds in regular romance titles. But there is often romance in the story also. Always the Last to Know features a family with two daughters. They are authentic and flawed […]
When I spotted the title, I pictured a much different story- one that had a modern group of eclectic people sipping their wine or tea, discussing Austen’s works and eventually their personal lives. But, then I noticed the blurb and a spark of excitement leaped in me because this wasn’t ‘a’ Jane Austen society (or […]