Book Review: Pip Granger’s Not All Tarts are Apple
The dark alleyways of 1953 Soho, London, teem with crooks, fortunetellers, cardsharks, and ladies of the night. But all have a soft spot for Rosie, who has become the target of a plot.
Publisher: Penguin
Book Review: Simon R. Green’s Something From the Nightside
John Taylor is not a P.I. per se, but he has a knack for finding lost things. It’s why he’s been hired to descend into the Nightside, an otherworldly realm in the center of London where fantasy and reality share renting space and the sun never shines.
Book Review: Georgette Heyer’s Devil’s Cub
When Mary Challoner discovered the plans of that notorious duellist and gamester, the “Devil’s Cub” to run away with her lovely sister, she donned cloak and mask in a daring impersonation and found herself bound for France with the most notorious rake in Georgian London.
Book Review: Georgette Heyer’s These Old Shades
The notorious Duke of Avon, nicknamed ‘Satanas’, runs into a young boy in a dark Parisian back alley, and he buys Leon, a redheaded urchin with strangely familiar looks…
Book Review: Patricia Cornwell’s Port Mortuary
Dr. Scarpetta is confronted with a case that could shut down the new Cambridge Forensic Center in Massachusetts and ruin her personally and professionally.
Book Review: Patricia A. McKillip’s Ombria in Shadow
Brimming with secrets and ghosts, the wicked regent will find Ombria a resistant city, even as she throws all that was precious to the prince to the streets.
Book Review: Dick Francis & Felix Francis’ Crossfire
Sent home by the army, the crippled Captain Tom Forsyth quickly finds himself strained in his family home. Hoping to save his mother’s reputation, Tom sets out to discover and defeat this hidden enemy.
Book Review: Denise Little’s The Magic Shop
An anthology of 15 stories whose themes revolve around a magic shop. This is a nice collection as the stories vary greatly.
Book Review: Patricia Briggs’ Steal the Dragon
Slave. Swordwielder. Spy. Some girls have all the luck…
Book Review: John Flanagan’s Halt’s Peril
Chasing a cult conning the innocent, Will and Halt are ambushed. It’s a poisoned arrow that fells Halt, and Will must find the one person able to save him.