If You Like….
Having grown up with PBS’s Mystery on Sunday nights, one of my particular pleasures is the British mystery. I’m not talking any of the more recent offshoots of the genre, the historical mystery, and so forth, but the standard, bread and butter fare: the Detective Chief Inspector or dedicated amateur who goes around solving a…
Read MoreThursday Give Away Winner
And the winner of the copy of Eloisa James’s A Kiss at Midnight is… Julie K, of Comment #25! Julie, if you’ll email me with your snail mail details, I’ll pop the book in the mail to you. In the meantime, stay tuned for another give away (book TBA) here this coming Thursday!
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
Happy Friday! As we recover from yesterday’s excesses, here’s this week’s reading in review: As I may have mentioned a while back, I let myself be talked into judging a contest that shall remain nameless in a category that shall also remain nameless, so this week was largely about bludgeoning through large stacks of contest…
Read MoreThanksgiving Give Away!
Happy Thanksgiving! By popular demand, here’s another Thursday give away, to while away those hours of post-turkey coma. Our special Thanksgiving Thursday give away is the first in Eloisa James’s fairy tale series, A Kiss at Midnight. Here’s the official blurb: Miss Kate Daltry doesn’t believe in fairy tales . . .or happily ever after.…
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I was chatting with a friend the other day about popular history books that read like novels. They haven’t quite reached the “add dialogue and stir” stage (i.e. Jean Plaidy), but they’re way too much fun to be assigned in history classes. If you like biographies and history books that read like novels, you’ll probably…
Read MoreThursday Give Away Winner
And the winner of the signed copy of The Cocoa Conspiracy is… Leslie! (Of Comment #10.) Leslie, if you’ll email me with your snail mail info, I’ll pop the book in the mail to you. Thanks so much to everyone who participated. My mouth was watering just reading about all those desserts. In the meantime,…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
To make up for last week’s reading slump, this week has been a book bonanza, in multiple genres. Here’s what I’ve been reading this week: — Juliana Gray, A Gentleman Never Tells. This is the second in a series based on Love’s Labor’s Lost, set in the late nineteenth century in a villa in Tuscany.…
Read MoreThursday Give Away
For today’s Thursday give away, we have a signed copy of the second book in Andrea Penrose’s Regency-set mystery series, The Cocoa Conspiracy. Here’s the official blurb: Chocolate mixed with conspiracy is a recipe for death… Lady Arianna Hadley, now the Countess of Saybrook, is slowly settling into married life with her new husband, the…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: Before ASHFORD
Every character has a backstory– and every backstory has a backstory. When I was working on The Ashford Affair, I was particularly struck by this, by all the stories, stretching back generation after generation, each shaping the next. When we meet my historical heroine, Addie, in 1906, her parents have just died in an omnibus…
Read MoreThursday Give Away Winner
Many apologies for this tardy post! I’ve been on the road and had some trouble posting remotely. The winner of Alison Pace’s You Tell Your Dog First is… Kayleigh! (Of Comment #9.) Kayleigh, if you email me with your details, I’ll pop the book in the mail to you. Up this Thursday? Book 2 in…
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