A Rowland Sinclair Novel (The fifth book in the Rowland Sinclair Mystery Series) After narrowly escaping Nazi terror, Rowland Sinclair and his companions land in London, believing they are safe. But they are wrong. A bizzare murder plunges the hapless Australians into a queer world of British aristocracy, Fascist Blackshirts, illicit love, scandal and spies….
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All in the fog – Book review for NetGalley – Sitting Murder (Lancashire Detective #4) by A.J.Wright
With a myriad of motives, the question is who? Detective Sergeant Michael Brennan of the Wigan Borough Police has no time for tales of ghosts and the afterlife, or of the dead contacting the living. So, when he finds himself investigating the case of a recently widowed young woman, Alice Goodway, who has suddenly developed ‘the…
Hindsight is a fickle friend – Book review for NetGalley – The Alphabet of Heart’s Desire by Brian Keaney
The Alphabet of Heart’s Desire A visitor calls with a gift and a message from the past in this literary, historical novel. In 1802 Thomas de Quincey, a young man from a comfortable middle-class background who would go on to become one of the most celebrated writers of his day, collapsed on Oxford Street and…
All the ladies for my life story – Book review for NetGalley – The Memory Shop by Ella Griffin
The Memory Shop The most important things in life . . . are not things at all. Nora is fleeing London for her childhood home in Dublin after her heart is suddenly torn apart. Back home, she learns she has inherited all of her grandmother’s worldly belongings – a feather shrug, a Tiffany mirror, a…
Off to the movies we go – Book review for Netgalley – The Woman in the Window by A.J.Finn
The Woman in the Window Anna Fox lives alone—a recluse in her New York City home, unable to venture outside. She spends her day drinking wine (maybe too much), watching old movies, recalling happier times . . . and spying on her neighbors. Then the Russells move into the house across the way: a father,…
The Bear and the Nightingale – Book Review
A magical debut novel for readers of Naomi Novik’s Uprooted, Erin Morgenstern’s The Night Circus, and Neil Gaiman’s myth-rich fantasies, The Bear and the Nightingale spins an irresistible spell as it announces the arrival of a singular talent with a gorgeous voice. At the edge of the Russian wilderness, winter lasts most of the year and the snowdrifts grow…
Enchante – Book review for NetGalley –
Dead Man’s Chest Dot unfolded the note. “He says that his married couple will look after the divine Miss Fisher…I’ll leave out a bit…their name is Johnson and they seem very reliable.” Phryne got the door open at last. She stepped into the hall. “I think he was mistaken about that,” she commented. Traveling at…
Close your books – Book review for NetGalley – The Inaugural Meeting of the Fairvale Ladies Book Club by Sophie Green
The Fairvale Ladies Book Club Books bring them together – but friendship will transform all of their lives. Five very different women come together in the Northern Territory of the 1970s by an exceptional new Australian author. In 1978 the Northern Territory has begun to self-govern. Cyclone Tracy is a recent memory and telephones not yet…
Splashes and glimpses – Book review for NetGalley – Pure Hollywood by Christine Schutt
Pure Hollywood “With terse sentences that read like poetry, Schutt strips each scene of excess context and cuts to the heart of the moment….Schutt’s haunting yet lyrical words linger long after the final page.”–Los Angeles Times Hailed by George Saunders as “a truly gifted writer,” with Pure Hollywood & Other Stories, Pulitzer Prize finalist and O…
And the murderer is… – Book review for NetGalley – Searching for Irene by Marlene Bateman
Searching for Irene What happened to Irene? When Anna Coughlin, a modern 1920’s woman, travels to the secluded hills of Virginia to work for wealthy Lawrence Richardson, she discovers that the previous secretary, Irene, has mysteriously disappeared. Upon arriving at the castle-like mansion, Anna finds that Lawrence’s handsome, but antagonistic son, Tyler, wants nothing more…
Evil in lacy gloves – Book review for NetGalley – The Life She Was Given by Ellie Marie Wiseman
The Life She Was Given From acclaimed author Ellen Marie Wiseman comes a vivid, daring novel about the devastating power of family secrets–beginning in the poignant, lurid world of a Depression-era traveling circus and coming full circle in the transformative 1950s. On a summer evening in 1931, Lilly Blackwood glimpses circus lights from the grimy…
Too much costume to be Drama – Book review for NetGalley – The Countess of Prague #Book 1 by Stephen Weeks
The Countess of Prague is the wonderfully exciting introduction to Beatrice von Falklenburg, known to her intimates as Trixie, who will lead us from Prague through Europe and occasionally beyond on a ten-book set of investigations that begins in 1904 and finishes in 1914. The assassination of the Archduke in Sarajevo that summer effectively ended…
