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===[[The Turn Photographer of Midnight the Lost by Minette WaltersCaroline Scott]]===
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At May 1921. Edie receives a photograph through the beginning of 1349 there post. There is no letter or note with it. There is a glimmer of a hope that nothing written on the ravages back of the Black Death might be passingphotograph. In Devilish in Dorset the population It is wella picture of her husband, because of Lady Anne's strict rules about quarantineFrancis. Francis has been missing for four years. Technically, which are regarded as heresy as they go against the strict rules of the churchhe has been "missing, believed killed" but their stores of food are dwindling and they know that when they are exhausted they will have no choice but to leaveis not something that a young widow can believe. What will they find She hangs on the outside? Are they word 'missing', disbelieving the only survivors? word killed. [[The Turn Photographer of Midnight the Lost by Minette WaltersCaroline Scott|Full Review]]
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Married Germany is split. Some of her is in favour of Hitler and the Nazis, but much isn't. Some of her is stuck to English Professor Ernest Weekleythe east fighting the Soviets, but some will soon have to be on the other front, aristocrat Frieda Von Richtofen finds herself stifled by against the Americans coming into the confines of married lifecontinent to put things right as they see it. Visiting family Finding out that the war to the east isn't working, due to Hitler's tactical ineptitude and inability to heed advice, some people reckon Stalin is five seasons away from being in MunichBerlin. The only way to shore things up, she becomes captivated by and repair the ideas of revolution splits, is to kill Hitler, and free love. Meeting luckily Baron Nicholas is the penniless writer Dman to do it.H. Lawrence He's aristocratic enough, he knows enough people in industry, she finds herself drawn into a passionate affair society and a tempestuous relationship, changing the course other circles of both their livespower, and unleashing so once he's succeeded he might be able to keep a creative outpouring that German presence in Europe. But will change he still be able to keep the "predatory American capitalists" and the course of literature forever. blatantly communist Soviets from meeting in the middle? [[Frieda The Man Who Killed Hitler by Annabel AbbsAndre Pronovost|Full Review]]
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===[[House of Glass Just Another Girl on the Road by Susan FletcherS Kensington]]===
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Clara suffered When Sergeant Farr and Corporal Valentine first encountered Katrinka Badeau she was just eighteen years old and fleeing from ''Osteogenesis imperfecta'': these days it would probably be called brittle bone disease a farmhouse and whilst there is still no cure, treatments have advanceda group of German deserters who had raped her. At the beginning of the twentieth century it meant that Clara Despite being outnumbered she was confined to her home, living life through a window giving just about as good as she got when Farr and Valentine intervened and finished the tales her mother, Charlotte, brought homegroup off. Both became far too knowledgeable about bones It was 1944 and Farr and Valentine were part of the sounds they made on breakingJedburgh unit, EDMOND, lead by Major Willoughby Nye. Charlotte would Nye recognised Katrinka immediately - he''list bones like continents''. Clara would only escape the house after d worked on her motherfather's death - of merchant ship and Katrinka had once had a tumour at the age of thirty nine - and in crush on Nye. When he offered her wanderings discovered Kew Gardens. Her growing knowledge of tropical plants led to the offer of a job stocking a newly-built glass house at Shadowbrook in Gloucestershirewith his unit, she accepted. [[House of Glass Just Another Girl on the Road by Susan FletcherS Kensington|Full Review]]
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===[[Bellewether by Susanna Kearsley]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]] Flitting between the present day and mid 16thcentury, ''Bellewether'' tells the fascinating tale of the Wilde House and all its inhabitants. In the present tense aspects, the Wilde House is being turned into a museum due to the legacy left by Captain Benjamin Wilde. It is told from the perspective of Charley, the museum curator, who is intrigued by the ghost who haunts the house and their story; a tale that ends in tragedy involving Benjamin Wilde's sister, Lydia, and a French-Canadian lieutenant, Jean-Philippe who was sent to live there. The perspective of the book is continuously shifted between Charley, then Lydia and Jean-Philippe. The latter two tell the truth about what was happening during this chaotic time in history, just as Charley is beginning to unravel it herself. [[Bellewether by Susanna Kearsley|Full Review]] <!-- Scott -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0593072286.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0593072286/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[A Treachery of Spies by Manda Scott]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] When Inspector Inès Picaut is called to investigate the horrific murder of a strikingly beautiful elderly lady, she's puzzled – whilst the identity of the woman has been erased, it's clear that she has been killed in the same way that traitors to the resistance were executed in World War Two. Solving the mystery will lead Inès deep into the history of this woman – and back to a time when the men and women of 1940s France were engaged in a desperate, brutal fight for survival against their Nazi oppressors. As more and more secrets come to light, Inès discovers that there are many in the present who would rather their past stay buried – and many who would kill to keep secrets safe… [[A Treachery of Spies by Manda Scott|Full Review]] <!-- Lock -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1787198243.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1787198243/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Murmuration Rabbit Girls by Robert LockAnna Ellory]]===
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Berlin, 1989. Miriam is in the middle of a city freshly united, with the Wall newly broken down and people able to cross at liberty for the first time in decades. She is in the middle of such euphoria, but cannot feel it, for she has not left her father's apartment in weeks, nursing him as he lies dying. One standard bed-bath, however, is very different, when he gasps the name 'Murmuration'Frieda' follows ' that she does not recognise – and she sees for the lives of first time ever a host of characters from 1863 to the present daytattoo for his camp inmate identity under his watch. From a risqué comic to a fortune teller One bombshell outside, then, we see the birth of Blackpool and its steadily fading glamourtwo inside. There And inside her father, Henryk, what is going on, as he has a hint of mysticism first-person narrative alternating with her story? What will we find happened, as he remembers back to the talereal Frieda, with a young woman that shook him to the mesmerising dance of starlings over the pier acting as an anchor throughout the distinct narratives herecore when he was her literature professor? That's right, drawing together disparate stories of lives captivated by the sea. more bombshells… [[Murmuration The Rabbit Girls by Robert LockAnna Ellory|Full Review]]
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===[[The Mercy Seat Long Flight Home by Elizabeth H WinthropA L Hlad]]===
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In an isolated Louisiana townSeptember 1940 - as WWII rages on, a young black prisoner sits in his dingy cellbombs rain down on Britain, staring at destroying the shadow homes and lives of a people on the window bars cast onto the concrete wall by the evening's dying sun raysedge. At midnightIn Epping Forest, he will be dead; strapped to Susan Shepherd and her grandfather Bertie live together raising homing pigeons with the birds proving a chair and electrocuted comfort for Susan following the rape loss of a white girl, who later committed suicideher parents. He is resigned These pigeons are more than just birds to his fate; it is futile to protest his innocence or to expect anyone to believe what really happened; after allSusan though – in each one, and especially in Duchess, love between she sees a black man distinct personality and forms a white woman was never going close bond. Meanwhile, young pilot Ollie Evans leaves Maine to have a happy ending in a small town filled head to Britain and join the Royal Air Force. Working with the National Pigeon Service, he soon meets Susan and is tasked with smallair-dropping hundreds of homing pigeons into German-minded peopleoccupied France, where many will not survive. As the mission is planned, the bond between Ollie and Susan grows stronger, but when Ollie's plane is downed behind enemy lines, it may be Duchess who provides an unexpected lifeline and ensures that hope of a reunion for Susan and Ollie remains… [[The Mercy Seat Long Flight Home by Elizabeth H WinthropA L Hlad|Full Review]]
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===[[A Gathering of Ghosts Brightfall by Karen MaitlandJaime Lee Moyer]]===
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WitchcraftRobin Hood is gone – denouncing both his former life and his love Marian, the supernatural and the will retreating to a monastery – although no-one knows quite what led him to survive at abandon all costs collide in a story that never shies away from the darker side of human naturehe had built. The land Marion's life since has been relatively quiet - but when her friends start dying, Marion is unhappy, tasked by Father Tuck to break the old spirits want revenge curse surrounding them and famine is kindling a resurgence of the old faith. As fear rises, it is increasingly difficult for Prioress Johanne to ignore that something rotten has taken rootsave their lives. The sacred well is taintedSetting off with a soldier, its healing waters run red with blood a Fey Lord and strangers are blowing a sullen Robin Hood, she becomes tangled in on a wind maze of change. betrayals, complicated relationships, and a vicious struggle for the throne…[[A Gathering of Ghosts Brightfall by Karen MaitlandJaime Lee Moyer|Full Review]]
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===[[Mr Peacock's Possessions A Perfect Explanation by Lydia SysonEleanor Anstruther]]===
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On Enid Campbell was a remote volcanic island off woman who, on the coast face of New Zealandit, a family had everything. Leading the life of settlers struggle to make such an unforgiving place a home. When a ship appearsaristocrat – full of inherited wealth and splendour, they feel that their wishes have been granted glamourous locales and their community reinvigorated – but high hopes are swiftly dashed when a vulnerable boy disappearsexpectations. As Only Enid's life has been plagued by mental illness – undiagnosed, untreated and threatening both settlers Enid and newcomers come together in the search those close to her. After losing custody of her children, Enid sells her son to her sister for £500 – but is this an act of greed, or an act of desperation? Exploring the childtrue story of her own grandmother, they uncover farEleanor Anstruther has found the perfect subject for an explosive, far more than they were looking for – discovering dark secrets about both the island moving and those who inhabit itbeautifully well-written debut. [[Mr Peacock's Possessions A Perfect Explanation by Lydia SysonEleanor Anstruther|Full Review]]
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===[[The Story Keeper Equator by Anna MazzolaAntonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]
Audrey, a complex mix of flights of fancy and seriousness, wanting, needing, to be more than what everyone expects of her, escapes from the straightjacket of her home[[image:3. Where every action, every thought, every yearning is controlled by her father, who only once in his life threw caution to the wind and married way beneath him for love5star. Now a widower and remarriedjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], he has rigorously returned to upholding what is right, what is proper[[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], the bastion of doing what is expected. [[The Story Keeper by Anna Mazzola:Category:General Fiction|Full ReviewGeneral Fiction]]
<!-- Glendinning -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0715652915.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0715652915/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Butcher's Daughter by Victoria Glendinning]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] The Tudor era is often chosen for historical fiction because it has such a wealth of intrigue, plots and machinations. The regular cast of courtly characters are usually rich and powerful, with so many to choose from It strikes me that the nobody can speak well never seems to run dry and of the characters are often those high up in Wild West outside the circles walls of power, or those prepared a theme park. Our agent to do anything to get there. This booksee how bad it was here is Pete Ferguson, however, is totally different. Set in who bristles at the mid–to–late 1500s we see the world through the eyes indignity of Agnes Peppinwhite man against Native 'Indian', who spends days being physically sick while indulging in a youngbuffalo hunt, poor and who hates the way man – and woman. As a woman she , of course – can either marry, or join a convent. Since Agnes has disgraced herself then she has no choice turn against fellow man at all, and she is sent to join the nuns bat of Shaftesbury Abbeyan eyelid. [[The Butcher's Daughter by Victoria Glendinning|Full Review]] <!-- Longridge -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1788034503.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1788034503/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Silence in But this book is about so much more than the Desert by David Longridge]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]1870s USA, [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] As and the shadow of the Second World War descends upon the planetattendant problems with gold rushes, four people are explored in a tale of love pioneer spirits and friendshipracial genocide. Henri He finds himself trying to find this book's version of Utopia, fulfilling a family tradition in joining namely the Foreign LegionEquator, Billwhere everything is upside down, arriving at Cambridge people walk on their heads with rocks in their pockets to keep them on an RAF scholarship, Leo, struggling the ground to align his beliefs with those of his upbringingcounter the anti-gravity, and Elisabethwhere, crossing continents who knows, things might actually be better. But that equator is a long way away – and changing names are all brought together by strife and turmoil. As the war rages, these men are tested like never before, with trust, loyalty there's a whole adventure full of Mexico and love leading to decisions that affect both their lives Latin America between him and those all around them. it… [[Silence in the Desert Equator by David LongridgeAntonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Six Tudor Queens: Jane SeymourAnna of Kleve, The Haunted Queen of Secrets by Alison Weir]]===
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When it comes to Jane SeymourPoor, frumpy Anne of Cleaves always gets a raw deal by history, of all the third wife wives of Henry VIII, popular opinion she is the one who is dividedknown for being rejected. Some see her as Anne Boleyn and Katheryn Howard were the sexy ones, Jane the dutiful one who delivered a scheming marriage-wrecker from an ambitious family who would stop at nothing son, Katherine of Aragon clung on to gain favour in the king's eyes. Others view her as a pious crown and God-fearing woman who brought calm and stability into Henry's Katharine Parr clung on to her life following his turbulent marriage to but poor frumpy Anne Boleynof Cleaves just rolled over and moved along. Perhaps both sides are true, to an extent. In ''The Haunted Queen,'' the third book in the ''Six Tudor Queens'' series, author and historian Not any more! Alison Weir puts flesh on the bones presents us with a different view of a Queen haunted by this young woman who saw the shadow of a formidable predecessoropportunity to live an independent life and took it. [[Six Tudor Queens: Jane SeymourAnna of Kleve, The Haunted Queen of Secrets by Alison Weir|Full Review]]
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It was about 1509 when a series of mystical events foreshadowed In an alternate 1952, Soviet Troops control British Streets. After D-Day goes horribly wrong, Britain is first occupied by Nazi Germany – only to be rescued by Russian soldiers from the end of the Aztec Empire East, and Americans from the inhabitants were to some extent conditioned to accept the pale faces who arrived many years later with their deer-without-antlerswest. Some thought Dividing the Spaniards were gods. Antonio Vega was no godnation between them, London soon finds itself split in two, but he was essentially a decent man, particularly by wall running through it like a scar. When Jane Cawson's husband is arrested for the standards murder of the timehis former wife, Jane is determined to clear his name. He was the finest marksman with his harquebus on the forceIn doing so, but at the age Jane follows a trail of twenty three he believed corruption that the expedition in October 1520 was to establish trade links and leads her right to convert the local inhabitants to Christianity from highest levels of the local religions which required human sacrifices. He'd joined the army from a seminary state – and whilst you wouldn't call him naive, he'd failed soon finds herself desperate to appreciate that 'establishing trade links' meant finding and removing stay one step ahead of the Aztec gold and that any conversion would not be by winning hearts and minds but by threats and torture. murderous secret police… [[In Gold's Name Liberation Square by Marcus DalrympleGareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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===[[The Industry of Human Happiness by James Hall]]===
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''The Industry of Human Happiness'' first and foremost is a novel about music. It is about human beings being able to find music and magic in the simplest of places. Max and his younger cousin have realised their dream of opening a gramophone company. However, their ambition and hubris soon puts them on a course towards London's underworld. They will ascend broken and their lives changed forever[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Industry of Human Happiness by James Hall:Category:Historical Fiction|Full ReviewHistorical Fiction]]
You might not think that Georgian London contained many black people. But it contained more than you think. You may have heard of Francis Barber, the black African slave who became the friend of lexicographer Samuel Johnson and was a beneficiary of his will. ''The Boy in a Turban'' tells the story of a fictional black character, James, in Georgian London. James, then Quaccoe, is brought to the capital from a Jamaican plantation by a ship captain who wanted a servant for his two daughters. [[The Boy in a Turban by Joseph Hucknall|Full Review]] <!-- Varese Clark -->
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===[[In The Spirit Photographer Full Light of the Sun by Jon Michael VareseClare Clark]]===
[[image:3star5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Literary Fiction|Historical Literary Fiction]] Jon Michael Varese's debut novel was inspired by the life story of the real-life father of spirit photography, William H. Mumler. His fictional stand-in here is Edward Moody, who was a battlefield photographer under Matthew Brady and now owns his own photography studio in Boston. Moody is dismissive of spiritualism, yet considers himself to be doing a service to the bereaved by fabricating family photographs in which the ghost of a departed loved one appears. This involves getting hold of an image of the loved one and superimposing it on the negative being developed, so that it seems to appear hazily in the background. Looking back from today's high-tech perspective, it's hard to see how anyone could have been fooled, but suffering people in desperate situations often want to believe; the same goes for séances. [[The Spirit Photographer by Jon Michael Varese:Category:Historical Fiction|Full ReviewHistorical Fiction]]
In 1930's Berlin, three people obsessed with art find themselves swept up into a scandal. Emmeline, a wayward young student, Julius, an anxious middle-aged art expert, and Rachmann, a mysterious art dealer, live in the politically turbulent Weimar Berlin, and soon find themselves whipped up into excitement over the surprise discovery of thirty-two previously unknown paintings by Vincent Van Gogh. Based on a true story and unfolding through the subsequent rise of Hitler and the Nazis, the discovery of the art allows these characters to explore authenticity, vanity and self-delusion. [[In The Full Light of the Sun by Clare Clark|Full Review]]
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===[[The Phoenix of Florence by Philip Kazan]]===
===[[Precept: A Novel by Matthew de Lacey Davidson]]=== [[image:4star5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Literary Fiction|Historical Literary Fiction]] Nathan Whyte is tremendously excited about the arrival of Frederick Douglass in Ireland. And even more excited that his Quaker father, who is publishing the British edition of ''Narrative'', Douglass's memoir of his life as a slave, will be accompanying the famous black American abolitionist on his speaking tour. Nathan is deeply impressed by Douglass, who is a charismatic figure and a gifted orator. But Ireland will have as big an impact on Frederick Douglass as Frederick Douglass will have on it. We watch him through Nathan's eyes as he sees for himself the beginnings of the horrors of the potato famine and meets and befriends the famous Irish nationalist, Daniel O'Connell. [[Precept: A Novel by Matthew de Lacey Davidson|Full Review]] <!-- Daniel Peltz -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1912083779.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1912083779/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Daniel Peltz]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]
When we first visit the Chiesa di Santa Maria we're Deep in the company Tuscan countryside of Molly Cavendish who is a partfifteenth-time guide at the Museo di Santa Mariacentury Italy, which is what the ruins of the Chiesa - Onoria survives a chapel - have now becomemassacre that destroys her family and home. Crowds flock to see its centrepieceAlone in the forest, she meets a renaissance fresco with band of soldiers who, believing her to be a history which grabs the attention of young boy train and develop her – and old. Molly uses the history determined Onoria becomes a mercenary – desperate to entertain avoid any situation in which she may feel vulnerable again. Along the touristsway, but there's more too it than she knowsmeets ex-soldier Celavini, particularly as the whose journey to Florence sees him investigating two brutal murders. As he digs further and uncovers links to his own family history of , Celavini must revisit the building is also the history of the Vannini familypast he shares with Onoria, who helped in building the chapel some six hundred years ago and one of whose descendants is hope that they can lay the director ghosts of the museumtheir shared history to rest before it's too late... [[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria Phoenix of Florence by Daniel PeltzPhilip Kazan|Full Review]]
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===[[Lady Mary Deviation by Lucy WorsleyLuce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)]]===
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''Lady Mary'' chronicles For those of you who have read books of life in the famous story Nazi camps – and of Henry VIII's love affair with Anne Boleyncourse, his divorce from Katherine for those of Aragonyou who have not – this can be considered a next step. It begins, Anne's execution for adulteryafter all, with someone escaping Dachau and Henry's subsequent marriage to Jane Seymour, which finally produces the much longed for birth of fleeing her work assignment during a male heir. This timebombing raid, the story is told through the eyes of an important but often neglected player - Henryand you's young daughterd not blame her one minute, Mary. Mary's hopes of as her family staying together are crushed by the divorce career was deemed to be cess-tank cleaner and she is treated terribly sewage unblocker by a father under the influence of the Boleyn factionGermans. Lady Mary follows In Munich, she stumbles on help to get her through these awful years and you can't help but root to what seems to be a camp for non-native civilians to look for work, or company, or transport elsewhere, either official or otherwise. But then the little girl stuck in next chapter sees her going back into the middle of these tumultuous eventscamp next to Dachau once more, and by then eyebrows are being raised. [[Lady Mary Deviation by Lucy WorsleyLuce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[My Lady's Choosing The Count of 9 by Kitty Curran and Larissa ZagerisErle Stanley Gardner]]===
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You are ''The Count of 9'' is a lass of twenty eight. Plucky, penniless and hardboiled detective story written in Regency era London the race is on to find a suitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster1950s. Along your journey you'll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to save you from a life alone, It revolves around the detective duo of Donald Lam and fired by a rogueish sense for adventure. When it comes Bertha Cool as they attempt to suitors though, you'll have to make solve the ultimate decision between witty, pretty and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or the mad, bad and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craventheft of priceless Bornean artefacts. With orphansHowever, werewolves, long lost lovers and ancient Egyptian artifcats along the way, it's clear this isn't going to be their case quickly turns into something darker - an easy decision..impossible murder. [[My Lady's Choosing The Count of 9 by Kitty Curran and Larissa ZagerisErle Stanley Gardner|Full Review]]
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