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Showing posts with label London. Show all posts
Showing posts with label London. Show all posts
Friday, September 13, 2024
Monday, September 9, 2024
Nocturne With Gaslamps ~ Book Review
A historical crime fiction novel set in Victorian London’s gaslit theatre scene, where ghosts lurk in the shadows and murder takes centre stage.
Gaslight. Ghosts. Murder.
Hastings Wimbury has always dreamt of playing Hamlet, but for now he works as a theatre gas-boy. Here, he tends to a gas chandelier so powerful it creates its own weather, and limelight machines that can throw a shadow onto a wall ten miles away.
When Hastings suddenly disappears, his fiancée Flora sets out to find him with the help of Cassie, her rival in love who is more preoccupied with the ghosts terrorising the streets of London. Soon total darkness is imposed upon the city, and they realise that something far more sinister is at hand…
Ladies aren’t supposed to solve mysteries, but this is a matter of life and death.
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
The Night Raven ~ Audiobook Review
Lydia has always known she has no power, especially next to her infamous and more-than-slightly dodgy family. Which is why she carved her own life as a private investigator far away from London. When a professional snafu forces her home, the head of the family calls in a favour, and Lydia finds herself investigating the disappearance of her cousin, Maddie.
Soon, Lydia is neck-deep in problems: her new flatmate is a homicidal ghost, the intriguing, but forbidden, DCI Fleet is acting in a distinctly unprofessional manner, and tensions between the old magical families are rising. For seventy-five years, a truce between the four families has held strong, but could the disappearance of Maddie Crow be the thing to break it?
Saturday, July 20, 2024
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
The Idle Stance of the Tippler Pigeon ~ Book Review
Zohaib, Misha and Nadia believed they would be in each other's lives forever. As children they played, argued, teased and loved one another. Yet nothing could have prepared them for the tragic turn of events one fateful afternoon in Karachi, Pakistan, when the divisions and differences between them are revealed.
Years later and they are still trying to piece their lives back together, still trying to make sense of what happened. Zohaib is living in London, haunted by the ghosts of the past. Nadia has escaped the household where she first met Misha and Zohaib but finds fate delivering her back to their door…
The Idle Stance of the Tippler Pigeon is a beautifully rendered portrait of love, healing, and long-buried pain, digging deep into the nature of trauma and class division.
Years later and they are still trying to piece their lives back together, still trying to make sense of what happened. Zohaib is living in London, haunted by the ghosts of the past. Nadia has escaped the household where she first met Misha and Zohaib but finds fate delivering her back to their door…
The Idle Stance of the Tippler Pigeon is a beautifully rendered portrait of love, healing, and long-buried pain, digging deep into the nature of trauma and class division.
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
The Idle Stance of the Tippler Pigeon ~ Spotlight Blitz
Zohaib, Misha and Nadia believed they would be in each other's lives forever. As children they played, argued, teased and loved one another. Yet nothing could have prepared them for the tragic turn of events one fateful afternoon in Karachi, Pakistan, when the divisions and differences between them are revealed.
Years later and they are still trying to piece their lives back together, still trying to make sense of what happened. Zohaib is living in London, haunted by the ghosts of the past. Nadia has escaped the household where she first met Misha and Zohaib but finds fate delivering her back to their door…
The Idle Stance of the Tippler Pigeon is a beautifully rendered portrait of love, healing, and long-buried pain, digging deep into the nature of trauma and class division.
Friday, December 1, 2023
Monday, November 27, 2023
Wild Court
A secret organisation is losing the battle to maintain the empathy levels that sustain the planet’s protective barriers against the nightmare worlds.
A young aristocrat safeguards a terrible secret, sponsoring an archaeology graduate obsessed with biblical artifacts. An all-knowing orphan worshiped by a cult joins a textbook exemplar of toxic masculinity and an introverted librarian. Together with a retired demon hunter, they’ll face the apocalypse.
Friday, June 16, 2023
Saturday, November 14, 2020
Thursday, November 21, 2019
Wednesday, August 28, 2019
Lord Gray's List
Book source ~ ARC.
My review is vountary and honest.
30 October 2012
Historical | Romance
317 Pages
Saturday, June 1, 2019
Tuesday, January 22, 2019
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
Tuesday, May 29, 2018
Demon's Bride
*Book source ~ A review copy was provided
in exchange for an honest review.
The Hellraisers, #2
1 May 2012
Paranormal | Romance
370 Pages
Thursday, May 3, 2018
Romance Readers Guide to Historic London
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Thursday, April 27, 2017
The Mentor
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Saturday, December 20, 2014
Stocking Stuffer ~ Death Becomes Her
*Book source
~ Purchased at Amazon
Title ~ Death Becomes Her
Author ~ Jaimey Grant
Publisher ~ TreasureLine Publishing
Published ~ 20 October 2014
Genre ~ Historical | Romance | Gothic
Pages ~ 138
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Will be free Dec. 21 - 25 on Amazon
Sunday, December 22, 2013
12 Days of a Kensington Christmas ~ The Dead Shall Not Rest
Title ~ The Dead Shall Not Rest
Series ~ Dr. Thomas Silkstone, #2
Author ~ Tessa Harris
Publisher ~ Kensington
Published ~ 24 December 2012
Genre ~ Historical/Mystery
*Book source ~ Many thanks to Kensington for providing a review copy in exchange for an honest review.
My Rating ~ 4 bites out of 5
It
is 1782 and Charles Byrne is said to be the tallest man in the world. Hating
the way he is treated, Lady Lydia Farrell rescues him from the traveling fair
when it is lodged on the far edge of her property. The Irish Giant only wants
to see the King to get a pardon for his dad who was wrongly charged, convicted
and hung for a murder he did not commit. From this single minded quest various
threads are weaved together to form the whole tapestry of The Dead Shall Not Rest.
There
is a lot going on in this second book involving Dr. Thomas Silverstone, an
anatomist from the Colonies now living in London Lydia
The
18th century forensics is fascinating and the history behind
anatomists, coroners and the justice system (such as it was) is a type of history
I can get behind. I did think there was a bit too much going on in this book,
but it didn’t stop me from enjoying the ride.
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