by L Ruby Hannigan | May 10, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Historical Fiction, Romance
Saucy, red-headed Gin lives during the Prohibition Era of flappers, gangsters, and bootleggers! She loves to spend her evenings in the speakeasy enjoying attentions of two of her admirers. Running away from a horrid childhood experience, she exudes confidence and...
by Philip Rafferty | May 3, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Historical Fiction
Days Without End, Sebastian Barry’s Costa Award winning 9th novel, is a visceral and lyrical western that is traditional only in the sense that there are horses and Indians. Barry’s strength is how he uses non-traditional tropes to tell the story of America. Each page...
by L Ruby Hannigan | Apr 11, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Historical Fiction, Religious Fiction, Romance
Grace Cristler, a young lady of 24, has already given up all hope for a future family as the young men in her town are near nonexistent. She spends her days as the postmistress in the town of Farland, Kansas. When her uncle, the Reverend Cristler, announced his...
by L Ruby Hannigan | Mar 29, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Historical Fiction, War & Military
In May 1941, the lovely English countryside felt the real horror of WWII upon them. A German soldier with a failed parachute falls to his death and lands in Farleigh Field, ancestral home to Roderick Sutton, Earl of Westerham. Identified as a spy, this sets off a...
by L Ruby Hannigan | Mar 8, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Historical Fiction
Monticello: A Daughter and Her Father is a fascinating historical fiction novel that brings to life the devoted daughter, Martha Jefferson Randolph, and her brilliant father, Thomas Jefferson. After the death of her beloved mother, Martha and her sister spent five...
by Katie Richards | Feb 2, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Horror
Ghost Talkers is a novel set in an alternate version of World War I. When British soldiers die at the front, they “report in” and give any details about the enemy or their death that they can to mediums, who report this information to the army to use as...