The death of their mother forces two sisters to confront some hard truths about their lives, their relationships, and their pasts in Julia Kelly’s The Dressmakers of London. Sylvia Shelton Pearsall has married up. All the lovely things life can give one – a beautiful home, fashionable clothes, the right kind of friends – she…
THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT MIRA – and it’s absolutely wonderful! Mira is a pain therapist and fully immersed in the Indian expatriate community in Chicago. She’s nearly thirty, still lives at home and has recently become engaged to Druv, an orthopaedic surgeon. He’s apparently the perfect guy and she’s lucky to be with him (or so…
After 20 years away, James Golden returns to Hawthorne, a remote town nestled within Six Rivers National Forest, to settle the affairs of her twin brother, Johnny. His death has been labeled a hunting accident—a stray bullet—but the story doesn’t sit right. Johnny’s camera and notebooks, essential to his work documenting rare owls in the…
Christmas with the Queen focuses on an interesting time in the life of Elizabeth II – the Christmas season of 1952, and the first time she made a Christmas broadcast from Sandringham. These addresses were established in 1932 by King George V and broadcast around the world by BBC radio and subsequently television (from 1957)….
The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern floats along on its characters’ charisma and engaging plotline. Memorable protagonists such as these don’t come along every day; too bad about the central romance and the way the leads behave because of it, because it knocks this book right out of DIK contention. In 1987, New York-loving pharmacist…
Rachel Greenlaw’s The Woodsmoke Women’s Book of Spells opens with intrigue but fizzles before it can fully cast its spell. I had high hopes—her previous novel, Compass and Blade, was a standout, and comparisons to Adrienne Young set my expectations even higher. But somewhere in the pages, the story begins to lose the thread, as…
Madeline Martin brings us to England for her latest look at bibliophiles facing war with The Booklover’s Library. A story about the love, growth and the joy of second chances, this novel is sure to delight the author’s many fans. Our story begins with a fire. Emma is reading upstairs when her father’s bookshop, located…
I like stories set in bookstores and libraries, so I was eager to try Madeline Martin’s The Booklover’s Library. According to the blurb, it’s the story of a mother and daughter who are torn apart by war, but brought together by, among other things, a shared love of books. Sounded like my catnip, so I…
Storybook Ending didn’t quite have me picturing fluffy bunnies and happily ever afters; it’s actually surprisingly blackly comic, filled with mordant chuckles that provide plenty of amusement. Do not come here expecting something cozy – this is a dash of arsenic in a glass of iced tea. But for what it is, it’s fun –…
You know how they say you should never judge a book by its cover? Well, I did, and boy was that ever a mistake. The lovely artwork on the jacket of The Winged Tiara envelopes a slap-sticky 1920s heist plot starring two very shallow characters glamorously traversing the world in search of a particular item…
End of content
End of content