Book Review: Ruth Downie’s Tabula Rasa
An intricate scheme involving slavery, changed identities, and fur trappers emerges in the midst of disappearances, as Ruso and Tilla struggle to keep the peace.
Genre: historical mystery
Book Review: Peter Tremayne’s Atonement of Blood
Fidelma and Brother Eadulf must discover who was behind the attempted assassination attempt of King Colgú. Was it their arch enemies? Evil secrets at an abbey?
Book Review: Jacqueline Winspear’s Among the Mad
Maisie Dobbs must catch a madman before he commits murder on an unimaginable scale.
Book Review: Jacqueline Winspear’s The Mapping of Love and Death
Maisie Dobbs must unravel a case of wartime love and death—an investigation that leads her to a long-hidden affair between a young cartographer and a mysterious nurse.
Book Review: Jacqueline Winspear’s A Lesson in Secrets
Maisie Dobbs is pulled into intelligence work for the Crown. As the storm clouds of World War II gather on the horizon, Maisie will confront new challenges and new enemies
Book Review: Margaret Frazer’s The Widow’s Tale
Dame Frevisse is embroiled in political intrigue when she aids a widow who is holding on to secret information that could be damaging to the lords closest to the king.
Book Review: Anne Perry’s A Christmas Hope
I received this book for free from the library in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Source: the library A Christmas Hopeby Anne Perry historical mystery in a hardcover edition that was published by Ballantine Books on November 12, 2013 and has 197 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo 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, Paragon Walk, Resurrection Row, Rutland Place, Farriers’ Lane, Bluegate Fields, Midnight at Marble Arch, Dark Tide RisingEleventh in Anne Perry’s Christmas Stories historical mystery series and set in Monk’s Victorian world of 1868, although Monk doesn’t appear in this. My Take It’s a bleak existence, attending parties for the sake of social and business advancement. Things get out of hand, however, and everything in Claudine’s world is overturned. And we encounter the double standards and the huge preference for appearance over character that are so disgusting in a society. People’s prejudices and expectations condemn another, mostly because it’s easier. Don’t want to rock the boat, do we? […]
Book Review: Margaret Frazer’s The Hunter’s Tale
When the vicious Sir Ralph Woderove is found murdered near his estate, Dame Frevisse finds that the evil that men do sometimes does live after them.
Book Review: Rhys Bowen’s Heirs and Graces
An heir is needed, and unfortunately he’s Australian. Lady Georgie is dispatched to Kingsdowne Place to help make him suitable for society. Then young Jack’s hunting knife is found in the duke’s back.
Book Review: Margaret Frazer’s The Bastard’s Tale
Reporting on the politics and plotting of the royal court for an ambitious bishop, Dame Frevisse is drawn into a dangerous maelstrom encircling the throne of England.