by Seniye Groff | May 31, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction
If anyone was not convinced that Christina Baker Kline could write after reading The Orphan Train, her latest book, A Piece of the World will remove all doubt. Kline paints pictures with her words; beautiful and sensory filled pictures. “After I leave for...
by Don Messerschmidt | May 15, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Historical Fiction, Mystery, Crime & Thriller
In rural England, shortly after World War I, Scotland Yard’s Inspector Ian Rutledge is called in to solve a series of suspicious deaths amongst a small group of men who drove fast and fancy motorcars. A year earlier, on the eve of the bloody Battle of the Somme in...
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 Howard Leighton | Apr 18, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020)
Sixty-nine years after her mother Hanna successfully escaped from East Germany into West Germany, Nina Willner has written a biography/history of four generations of their family. This is the personal, touching, and informative story of their lives. It documents the...
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...