It’s 1934, and the normally idyllic village of Buncome-upon-Woolly has been the site of four homicides in the past year—an unprecedented crime wave. As a result, the village is overrun with Murder Tourists hoping to emulate the plots of their favorite detective novels and do a bit of amateur sleuthing. This irritates Georgiana Radcliffe, the…
When KJ Charles recommends a book, I sit up and take notice, so when Megaera C. Lorenz posted on social media offering review copies of The Shabti I was quick to grab one! This, the author’s début novel, is an atmospheric and eminently readable mixture of historical romance and paranormal mystery set in the US…
It Happened One Fight is just the sort of snappy screwball romantic comedy that the romance world has been waiting for. It pays a fine tribute to the 1930s romantic comedies it’s clearly based upon, and provides the reader with one heck of a rollicking ride. Joan Davis and Dashiell (Dash) Howard make beautiful music…
Despite the Depression era setting, Aster Glenn Gray’s Tramps and Vagabonds generally has an upbeat feel to it as we join James and Timothy, who decide to ride the rails after they finish a six-month stint at the CCC – the Civilian Conservation Corps, an organisation founded in 1933 that provided jobs for unemployed young men….
Renée Rosen turns her wise, wry eye to the making of cosmetics giant Estée Lauder in Fifth Avenue Glamour Girl, a fun little slice of historical fiction that takes you directly to the heart of the founding of Lauder’s empire. Gloria Downing is in the middle of coping with a horrifying scandal – her father…
Emily Hourican’s Mummy Darlings – a continuation of her Glorious Guinness Girls series, which follows the adventures of three real life Guinness heiresses and their (fictional) housemaid – explores what it’s like to go from a single, light-heeled party girl to a mother with responsibilities and marital obligations. But it’s a book that definitely won’t…
Chloe Gong never fails to take her readers on a journey. Foul Lady Fortune opens a fresh series for her, but also serves as a continuation of the adventures of the Shakesperian characters in her These Violent Delights duology. This novel provides Rosalind’s story. I liked it only slightly less than the two TVD books,…
Rust in the Root does not take place in the same universe as Justina Ireland’s paranormal historical duology Dread Nation/Deathless Divide, which both earned DIKs here. This book can’t possibly be as good as those, right? Surprise! It’s even better. In a magic-infused alternate history, the U.S. of the 1930s was blighted by the Great…
Lauri Robinson’s Marriage or Ruin for the Heiress is the first in her new miniseries The Osterlund Saga. This book is set in Chicago during the Great Depression and features a hero and heroine who are both determined never to fall in love. This is a delightful and easy read, with the tiniest bit of…
Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb have reunited to write an adventure story about women traveling alone in the 1930s and 1940s. The story of two sisters and their grandmother, all bonded by the spirit of adventure, Three Words of Goodbye is a lovely if slightly rote, very feminist story about how the march of time…
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