Book Review: Elizabeth George’s A Great Deliverance
Murder has stunned the peaceful Yorkshire countryside. For fat, unlovely Roberta Teys has been found in her best dress, an axe in her lap, beside her father’s headless corpse.
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Book Review: Georgette Heyer’s A Civil Contract
Adam Deveril, a hero at Salamanca and the new 6th Viscount Lynton of Fontley Priory, Lincolnshire returns to find his magnificent home in disrepair and his family on the brink of ruin The only hope is marriage to a Cit’s daughter.
Book Review: Georgette Heyer’s Beauvallet
The lovely Dona Dominica de Rada y Sylva is horrified when their ship is set upon by the notorious Sir Nicholas Beauvallet, an Englishman pirate. But Dominica’s pride braces her determination to be no one’s hostage
Book Review: Georgette Heyer’s Simon the Coldheart
Simon the page becomes Simon the lord, but it seems that none but the Lady Margaret can capture the affections of Simon the Coldheart.
Book Review: Georgette Heyer’s The Spanish Bride
Shot-proof, fever-proof and a veteran campaigner at the age of twenty-five, Brigade-Major Harry Smith may ruin his career when h3 meets the defenceless Juana.
Book Review: Nora Roberts’ Carnal Innocence
A string of brutal murders of Innocence’s most attractive women. Scaring concert violinist Caroline Waverly, just when she is falling for the lead suspect.
Book Review: David Lawrence’s The Dead Sit Round in a Ring
Detective Stella Mooney circles the fabulous flats of Notting Hill to the decidedly tougher side of town with her personal life also going awry. Nightmares, too much vodka, and an attraction to another man contributes to her life falling apart,
Book Review: Charles Todd’s A Lonely Death
Scotland Yard Detective Ian Rutledge investigates the murder of three men in a Sussex village. Then another is garroted. The only clue an ID disc in their mouths.
Book Review: N.K. Jemisin’s The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
An outcast from the barbarian north, Yeine Darr is summoned to Sky when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances. There, to her shock, Yeine is named an heiress to the king. But the throne of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is not easily won, and Yeine is thrust into a vicious power struggle.
Book Review: Eric Wilder’s Morning Mist of Blood
A black panther, a giant wolf dog and a beautiful woman with a rattlesnake tattoo. Buck McDivit must deal with all this and more when a wealthy rancher hires him to investigate murder, oil and cattle theft, and a pagan commune populated only by women.