Showing posts with label historical. Show all posts
Showing posts with label historical. Show all posts
Monday, January 6, 2025

Remember When by Mary Balogh

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Balogh's Ravenswood  series around the Ware family and it's matriarch Clarissa's turn to find love.  Before she married the Earl...
Sunday, December 29, 2024

A Christmas Holiday by Janice Bennett, Violet Hamilton, Sara Blayne, Karla Hocker, Anthea Malcolm, Tracy Grant , Elizabeth Thornton, W.M. Cordy

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To be fair, I read this book close to when it came out so my rating may be colored by nostalgia.  Holly Brooch  by Janice Bennett Miss Dorot...
Friday, December 27, 2024

The Apothecary's Poison by C.J. Archer

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While Matt and India are generally trying to stay under the radar of the newspapers, they do still read them. And an article about a doctor,...
Sunday, December 22, 2024

The Mapmaker's Apprentice by C.J Archer

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The commissioner that helped Matt out in the last book needs help now. A mapmaking apprentice has gone missing and the commissioner would li...
Wednesday, December 18, 2024

A Regency Christmas by Leslie Lynn, Joan Smith, Barbara Metzger, Jennie Gallant

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Greetings of the Season by Barbara Metzger The Earl of Montraven fires his secretary when he discovers the man has been sleeping with the e...
Sunday, December 15, 2024

The Watchmaker's Daughter by C.J. Archer

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Down to her last penny, about to be thrown out of her lodgings, India Steele does the only thing she can think of. She goes to the shop of h...
Saturday, December 7, 2024

Secrets of the Lost Ledgers by C.J. Archer

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Sylvia is starting to understand how to use her magic and that is making her more attuned to other magic. So she is startled to pick up a bo...
Tuesday, November 26, 2024

Murder at Glenloch Hill by Clara McKenna

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Lyndy and Stella need a break, They've got too many people giving them advice on how to move forward with their lives. So they head up t...
Sunday, November 24, 2024

Murder at King’s Crossing by Andrea Penrose

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Sheffield and Cordelia are finally married. But the day is marred when news of a dead man carrying an invitation to their wedding arrives. A...
Thursday, November 14, 2024

A Body at the Grand Hotel by Benedict Brown

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At the end of the last book, Marius got some new information about what may have happened to his father. But he is trying not to dwell on th...
Thursday, November 7, 2024

The Dead Letter Delivery by C.J. Archer

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At the end of the last book, Sylvia found a clue to her mother's past. Fairly soon into this book, we have confirmation of her link to M...
Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Blood on the Banisters by Benedict Brown

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It's finally time for Christopher's brother to be married to the lovely Cassandra. We've seen them both in previous books in the...
Monday, November 4, 2024

Misery Hates Company by Elizabeth Hobbs

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Though Marigold Manners family is an old one, she is not surprised to learn upon her parents deaths that they have left her nothing. So her ...
Sunday, November 3, 2024

The Untitled Books by C.J. Archer

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Apparently, books that have never been published might be called "untitled." We're told that a few times in this book. We are ...
Wednesday, October 23, 2024

What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust by Alan Bradley

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Flavia de Luce is back! And this time, it's someone close to her who's been accused of murder. In fact, the opening scene is Inspect...
Thursday, October 17, 2024

A Botanist's Guide to Society and Secrets by Kate Khavari

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Saffron has just gotten back from a botany conference in France. It didn't go quite the way she had hoped (sexism, sexism everywhere.) A...
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Murder on the Red River by Marcie R. Rendon with Siiri Scott (Narrator)

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Cash is 19 and not really thinking about her life. She works as a farm laborer (like she has since she was young) and she uses a fake ID to ...
Sunday, October 13, 2024

The Medici Manuscript by C.J. Archer

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Sylvia is still working in Glass Library with Professor Nash and they've discovered an interesting manuscript. There are markings that s...
Thursday, September 26, 2024

The Librarian of Crooked Lane by C.J. Archer

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Sylvia Ashe is all alone in the world. Her brother died in the war and her mother in the flu that followed after. She was lucky to get a job...
Friday, September 20, 2024

Murder at the Merton Library by Andrea Penrose

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Wrex receives a note from a friend of his brother's, asking him for help. But when Wrex arrives at the college, the friend is already de...