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I don’t remember exactly where I saw this book mentioned but I loved the premise. It pits a notoriously corrupt bank against a vicar who isn’t quite as naive as they expect him to be. Reverend Tom Goodman gets fired […]

I’m not generally a cozy mystery fan but I was drawn to this book because of the racing setting. I love Dick Francis’s books. This book doesn’t dive so deeply into the racing world. It focuses on a group of […]

I absolutely loved this book. Two strangers bid on a huge mansion in the English countryside. Several months later, once he realizes how much it is going to cost him to repair this house and just after finding out that […]

I’m seeing a lot more books recently about World War I. The second World War has been a popular subject in historical fiction for a while so I’m glad to see other eras getting more notice. In this book a […]

This is an engaging story of a young woman who is struggling to keep her family afloat. She is working as an assistant hat maker to a woman whose ideas are out of fashion and who isn’t shy about stealing […]

What happens when a small village is tasked with housing a train load of pregnant women from London? This is a delightful historical fiction book about women during the early days of World War II. Each of the evacuees have […]

I reviewed the first three books in this series in June of this year. I was excited to get to read this one as soon as it came out. Kat Holloway is a cook in an upper class London home. […]

I don’t tend to agree to read historical romance books for book tours because I’m so picky.  I’m glad that this one worked out well for me.   There is a little bit of suspension of disbelief that I had to […]

This series actually starts with a novella called Soupcon of Poison but Death Below Stairs is listed as the first book. It is confusing. I didn’t read the novella that introduces all the characters and that was fine. You can […]

The Extraordinaries Series   This is an unusual series.  It uses the tropes of Regency Romance but places them in a world where some people have Talents.  I would describe these more as historical fantasies with romantic plots. In Burning […]

The Premise of the Series Three elderly ladies have been friends for decades.  They all married men who traveled around the world.  They were left home.  Now they are all widows who would like to make a little bit of […]

This is the third book that I’ve read in this series set in an English department store. Each of the books focuses on a particular couple but because there is a larger mystery that moves through all of them, it […]

I’m an absolute sucker for older female protagonists in fiction.  As soon as I saw the description of this book, I was all in even though she is only in her 40s. Bring me all the older ladies! Clara entertains […]

I’d been low key wanting to read the Robert Galbraith mystery books ever since it was revealed that they were written by J.K. Rowling.  I finally started them and then I couldn’t stop.  I’ve listened to the four books on […]

AMAZON | BARNES AND NOBLE | ITUNES | KOBO I loved the first book in this series that is centered around four men who lived in the same brutal orphanage as children.  One went into the Army.  One became a lawyer.  One is living with the […]

Any Courtney Milan book is going to be a delight but I was especially excited to hear that this novella was going to feature older women.  I’m a huge fan of stories that feature older heroines.  Why should we stop […]

This is the second book in an historical fiction series about a department store in Bath in the early 1900s.  The story from the first book continues in the background of this book so while it may not be absolutely […]

K.J. Charles is one of the romance authors that I found out about on Twitter and now is an autobuy for me.  I was thrilled when she offered ARCs of this book to readers. A lot of her books that […]

I love historical fiction that pulls you in from the beginning. This is the story of two women from very different backgrounds who meet in the embroidery workshop of a dress designer in London immediately after World War II. Ann […]

I’ve been following the author on Twitter for a while so I was familiar with his job and what it entails.  Despite that, this is still a fascinating look at the care of the ravens at the Tower of London. […]