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.
Source: my own shelves
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: Georgette Heyer’s Venetia
The lovely and intelligent Venetia Lanyon’s future seems safe and predictable. Until the shocking Lord Jasper Damerel returns to his estate. A libertine whose way of life has scandalized the North Riding for years.
Book Review: Georgette Heyer’s Black Moth
Set in the eighteenth century in the extravagant days of Beau Nash, when the sword was the ever-ready solution to every dispute, here A blend of high adventure and heart-stirring romance when the sword was the ever-ready solution to every dispute and a sinister duke known as “The Black Moth”.
Book Review: Georgette Heyer’s Lady of Quality
A runaway heiress’ uncivil and high-handed guardian complicates Miss Annis Wychwood’s life with excitement and unexpected consequences.
Book Review: Georgette Heyer’s Bath Tangle
Left a ward of the odious Lord Rotherham, the temperamental Lady Serena Carlow flees with her stepmother to Bath where she gathers more beaux than she can handle, including Lord Rotherham!
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.