If you want a fabulous historical read that combines mystery, romance, and a well-researched time period, The King’s Messenger is perfect for you. England/Scotland 1613: Prince Henry is dead, allegedly from an illness that had been plaguing him for months, but Queen Anne has suspicions as to whether that is genuinely what killed her bright,…
I love going through AAR’s Best of Lists since I am always guaranteed to find some great books. Thanks to Maria Rose’s list, my most recent discovery is the A Rip Through Time series starring Detective Mallory Atkinson and mortician and crime solver Dr. Duncan Gray. MAY 20, 2019: Homicide detective Mallory is in Edinburgh…
This review originally appeared at Romantic Historical Reviews in 2012 I thoroughly enjoyed The Emperor’s Conspiracy – although it eventually missed out on getting a DIK rating, of which more later. The heroine, Charlotte Raven is an unusual one in that she was once a street urchin and has retained her links to London’s underworld,…
Murder in Highbury is a perfectly all right little mystery that’s hampered by its predictability. The romance isn’t its central focus, which also hampered my enjoyment of the proceedings. Yet the language of the book and Emma’s characteristic intensity keep it from being an outright failure. Emma Knightley has settled happily into married life. Unfortunately,…
After reading the first in the Lucy Lawrence Mysteries series, No Stone Unturned, I was intrigued enough about the widowed Lucy and where her life might take her next to pick up the next in the series. Footprints in the Sand follows Lucy on an adventure into a very different world from Victorian England –…
While I’ve always enjoyed historical mysteries (my favourite series is the Matthew Shardlake series by C.J. Sansom, set in Tudor England) I don’t read them that often (too many books, too little time!). However, having recently enjoyed K.J. Charles’s Death in the Spires, I took a chance on another author who is published by the…
One of my favorite books last year dealt with a killer using the backdrop of war to get away with his crimes, so when I saw Some Murders in Berlin I was excited to revisit that plot. Unfortunately, the author fails to make good use of the possibilities presented by such a setting and instead…
So here we are at the eighth instalment of Sherry Thomas’ Lady Sherlock series of historical mysteries, and I confess, I found A Ruse of Shadows pretty hard going to start with. I’m a fan of the author’s, the writing is excellent and the plotting is superb, but I’m… just not feeling it any more….
Truth Be Told is the third book in the Annalee Spain Mysteries series. Set in Denver in the early 1920s, the books chronicle the hold the Klu Klux Klan has on the state of Colorado, the dangers faced by the Black community of the time, and how one woman, a theologian by trade, has turned…
This is the fourth book of the Ladies Most Scandalous series. It’s a lighthearted historical romance with a murder mystery and features governesses. I enjoyed this but felt like it focused more on the mystery than the romance. (I wanted more romance.) Miss Jane Hollowell has been hired as a governess by Lord Gilford, an…
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