Review of The Raven’s Seal by Andrei Baltakmens
Baltakmens has created an imaginary, Dickensian city with a dark prison looming on a hill at the top of this grim, fairy tale-like world.
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Interview and Giveaway with MJ Rose, author of Seduction
Interview and book giveaway with MJ Rose, author of Seduction, a novel about Victor Hugo and the modern mythologist and perfumer Jac L’Etoile.
Giveaway and Review of Seduction by MJ Rose
M.J. Rose’s Seduction moves between the haunted world of Victor Hugo in 1855 on the Isle of Jersey after the death of his daughter and the equally problematic life of Rose’s modern heroine, Jac L’Etoile, a mythologist and innately talented perfumer with a tragic past.
Review and Giveaway of His Majesty’s Hope: A Maggie Hope Mystery
Latest in the Maggie Hope series, this WWII thriller takes Maggie behind enemy lines into Germany where her past and the Nazis both have it out for her.
Tempting Tastes of Upcoming Historical Novel Society Conference: Interview with Kris Waldherr
Interview with Kris Waldherr author, illustrator and featured speaker at the 2013 Historical Novel Society Conference in June.
Tempting Tastes of Upcoming Historical Novel Society Conference: Interview with Deborah Swift
Interview with author and featured speaker at the upcoming Historical Novel Society Conference in June.
Tempting Tastes of Upcoming Historical Novel Society Conference in June: Mitchell Kaplan Author
Interview with Mitchell Kaplan, author of By Fire, By Water and a featured speaker at the 2013 Historical Novel Society Conference June 21-23 in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Review of A Death in the Small Hours by Charles Finch
Charles Lenox is back in another of this extended series of gentle, Victorian era mysteries. Love in many forms turns up in unlikely places as the evil crimes are committed and solved. Finch uses this counterpoint thematically and it gives the book a benign lightness despite some grim moments.
Review of Helen of Troy by Margaret George
George starts with Helen as a small girl and takes her all the way through the Trojan War, back to Sparta and beyond. The most compelling things about Helen of Troy, besides the abundance of detail of daily life and war in ancient times, are George’s character portrayals.
Review of The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton
Imagine watching your loving, nearly perfect mother stand on the front stairs of your farmhouse, put the baby down behind her and stab a man to death and then act as if this brutal act had little to do with her? Fifty years later Laurel Nicolson sets out to find the real answer in a novel spanning London in the blitz and an idyllic childhood in the English countryside post WWII.