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book reviews, historical fiction, mystery

Maiden Voyage by Bradley Harper [review] [blog tour]

November 23, 2025November 24, 2025

Maiden Voyage is a new standalone novel by Bradley Harper and is a historical thriller featuring a gang of female thieves, a priceless painting, and a Pinkerton agent aboard the …

book reviews, historical fiction, mystery

Death and Glory by Will Thomas [audiobook review]

November 7, 2025November 7, 2025

Death and Glory by Will Thomas is the 15th book in the Barker and Llewelyn series, set in 1890s London. The audiobook is narrated by Antony Ferguson Title: Death and …

Shadows of Hemlock by K.M. Pohlkamp
book reviews, historical fiction

[review] Shadows of Hemlock by K.M. Pohlkamp

November 18, 2019November 17, 2019

Shadows of Hemlock is the worthy sequel to K.M. Pohlkamp’s award-winning novel, Apricots and Wolfsbane. Both of these books feature a strong female assassin in Tudor England. That one line …

The Dead Don't Wait by Michael Jecks
book reviews, historical fiction, mystery

[review] The Dead Don’t Wait by Michael Jecks

November 4, 2019November 4, 2019

The Dead Don’t Wait is an interesting historical mystery set during the reign of Queen Mary. This is the fourth book in the series, but the first one that I …

The Queen of Warriors by Zenobia Neil
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[review] The Queen of Warriors by Zenobia Neil [blog tour]

October 2, 2019October 2, 2019

The Queen of Warriors, Alexandra of Sparta, vowed her sword and her heart to the goddess Artemis. And the goddess blessed her. But no warrior lives at peace, and soon, …

cover reveal - Shadows of Hemlock by KM Pohlkamp
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[cover reveal] Shadows of Hemlock by K.M. Pohlkamp [blog tour]

September 3, 2019September 3, 2019

I’m excited to help reveal the cover of K.M. Pohlkamp’s next book, Shadows of Hemlock, the sequel to the Historical Novel Society’s Editors’ Choice Selection, Apricots and Wolfsbane (which I’ll …

Black Death by MJ Trow
book reviews, historical fiction, mystery

[review] Black Death by MJ Trow

August 6, 2019August 6, 2019

In Black Death, playwright Christopher “Kit” Marlowe investigates the death of Robert Greene, a former Cambridge scholar. Marlowe didn’t particularly like Greene, but shortly before Green died, he sent Marlowe …

A Conspiracy of Wolves by Candace Robb
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[review] A Conspiracy of Wolves by Candace Robb [blog tour]

August 1, 2019August 6, 2019

A Conspiracy of Wolves by Candace Robb is a historical fiction mystery (I seem to be reading a lot of these lately) and is Book 11 in the Owen Archer …

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