I’ve spent the last month focusing on WW2 fiction and drama in honor of D-day on June 6th. I’ve shed a lot of tears, stared vacantly at the wall at the end of a particularly brutal story, and sighed with satisfaction at an HEA I had prepared myself not to get. But one theme runs […]
I was very happy to continue the Kat Holloway mysteries. Each mystery is standalone though there is an ongoing series arc for Kat’s personal and relationship developments.  I know and love many of the characters and I understand the world even if I don’t like some of it. Women of any class have few rights […]
I nearly missed the next release in The Daughter of Sherlock Holmes Mysteries series. I really enjoy all these Sherlock Holmes style investigations and the setting in England. Plus the series is narrated by STEVE WEST. After many years, Jack the Ripper is active again in Whitechapel. A special young women, a talented and beautiful […]
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 […]
A family of expert safe crackers are set up, caught, and offered a deal to work for the British Secret Service. How could I pass up such an intriguing set up to a new series? I have been meaning to try this author’s older series for ages and got side tracked when this dazzling series […]
The inexplicable murder of one of the firm’s best lawyers, in the seedy East End, has Daniel and the others scrambling to find out the truth because more than the firm’s reputation is riding on it. Each new installment in the series has me eager to see how young, intrepid Daniel Pitt will beat the […]
Edinburgh is whispering behind their hands about Kiera once again, but this time it because her name is tied to the town’s most infamous criminal, Bonnie Brock Kincaid. This is a series I eagerly jump on each new installment for the colorful characters, the riveting plot, and the well-drawn historical backdrops. A Wicked Conceit is […]
What if Lydia Bennet ran away with Wickham, but ended up on a separate, desperate adventure all alone? It might be the making of a Reckless, Headstrong Girl as well as the chance for her sister to get a second chance at love. Reckless, Headstrong Girl is a novella in the Skirmish and Scandal collection […]
When I saw the blurb for The Conductors, I knew I wanted to read it. I have always loved stories about the Civil War and the Underground Railroad.  The story being from the point of view of a conductor only made it better. The story alternates chapters from the past 1858-1865, with the present (1871). […]
In the Anglo-Saxon period of post-Roman Britain, before all the British tribes were united or a Battle of Hastings was fought, England was a chessboard of maneuvers to many rulers and even the fledgling beginnings of the Christian faith there. It was darker times when plague and ambitious royalty could decimate towns and villages. Shining […]