Book Review: Margaret Frazer’s A Play of Piety
With Bassett ill, the players must find work, and Joliffe finds it in a hospital with the ill-liked Mistress Thorncoffyn who insists someone is trying to kill her.
Genre: historical mystery
Book Review: Charles Todd’s The Confession
A dying man confesses that he killed his cousin during the Great War. Then his body is found in the river, and Inspector Ian Rutledge’s only clue is a gold locket.
Book Review: Margaret Frazer’s A Play of Treachery
While training in spycraft in France, Joliffe learns just how dangerous secrets can be when a member of the duchess’s household is murdered,…
Book Review: Margaret Frazer’s A Play of Lords
Playing spies amongst the contenders for the regency to young King Henry VI, Joliffe and company start to fear for their own lives when men who know too much begin to die.
Book Review: Diana Gabaldon’s Lord John and the Hand of Devils
Three short stories in the historical mystery series about Lord John Grey, an important peripheral character in Gabaldon’s Outlander series. The first two are a blip in his life while the second takes a much longer view.
Book Review: Anne Perry’s Paragon Walk
I received this book for free from my own shelves in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Source: my own shelves Paragon Walkby Anne Perry historical mystery in a paperback edition that was published by Ballantine Books on August 12, 1986 and has 248 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Death in the Devil’s Acre, Cardington Crescent, Silence in Hanover Close, Bethlehem Road, The Cater Street Hangman, Callander Square, Resurrection Row, Rutland Place, Farriers’ Lane, Bluegate Fields, Midnight at Marble Arch, A Christmas Hope, Dark Tide RisingThird in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Victorian mystery series revolving around Inspector Thomas Pitt and his very curious wife Charlotte. My Take While a young girl is murdered, the emphasis is on how it will affect everyone else socially with a number of the neighbors putting all the blame on the girl. Well, obviously she must have had low morals to have invited rape! How do people actually twist their minds to believe something like this? They are like a snarling pack of dogs. Ooh, that’s rather mean. To the […]
Book Review: Peter Tremayne’s The Chalice of Blood
A scholar is found murdered and manuscripts stolen. The abbot insists on Sister Fidelma and Brother Eadulf investigating despite the attempt on their lives and their own problems.
Book Review: Margaret Frazer’s A Play of Knaves
Dark deeds are brewing in the village of Ashewell, and Joliffe and his fellow players are sent to uncover its secrets and stop the murders.
Book Review: Rhys Bowen’s Royal Blood
The penniless Lady Georgiana Rannoch is off to Transylvania to represent the royals at a wedding. Only poison and blood threaten to drain the nuptial festivities.
Book Review: Anne Perry’s Callander Square
I received this book for free from my own shelves in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Source: my own shelves Callander Squareby Anne Perry historical mystery in a paperback edition that was published by Fawcett Books on December 12, 1985 and has 256 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Death in the Devil’s Acre, Cardington Crescent, Silence in Hanover Close, Bethlehem Road, The Cater Street Hangman, Paragon Walk, Resurrection Row, Rutland Place, Farriers’ Lane, Bluegate Fields, Midnight at Marble Arch, A Christmas Hope, Dark Tide RisingSecond in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt mystery series set in Victorian London and revolving around a police inspector and his wife. My Take Each of the murders revolves around babies while the instigator is sex. It’s an interesting look at the double standards of the times and the expectations of the wives’ behaviors as most of the families on the square are torn apart. Expectations and beliefs are torn asunder although, I suspect, several of the women affected end up being much happier. I did rather enjoy Reggie having his […]