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REVIEW of Mary B.: An Untold Story of Pride and Prejudice, by Katherine J. Chen
The premise of this book was interesting: to tell the story of the forgotten middle sister Mary from Jane Austen’s classic Pride and Prejudice. The first part of the book was engaging–Mary’s ill-fated interest in Mr. Collins and misapprehension of his character was well-portrayed. But once the events in the final chapter of the original…
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REVIEW of The Scandal in Honor (Lord Trevelin Mystery #2), by Heidi Ashworth
Two years after the fateful duel that left Lord Trevelin’s face permanently scarred, he has finally found a woman who respects and loves him. But Jane Leavitt’s father is still waffling on setting a date for the wedding. Can Trev be trusted to create no more scandals and to stop meddling in inappropriate things like…
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REVIEW of A Gift for Lord Trevelin, by Heidi Ashworth
Rumors abound about the disreputable Lord Trevelin whose scarred mouth is perpetually twisted into a sneer. When Sophie Lundell glimpses Lord Trevelin at her debut ball, she determines to follow him out onto the veranda and hear from his own lips just why society is determined to shun him and just how he got that…
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REVIEW of Lady Crenshaw’s Christmas (Miss Delacourt #3), by Heidi Ashworth
Anthony and Ginny (or to use their titles–Lord and Lady Crenshaw) have been married for seven months and are just as much in love as ever. But with Ginny now expecting their first child, how will she find the strength to put on a Christmas ball, cope with Anthony’s spiteful relatives, and find Anthony a…
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REVIEW of The Innkeeper’s Daughter (The Bow Street Runners #2) by Michelle Griep
Alexander Moore is going deep undercover. His assignment? To lodge at the Blue Hedge Inn in Dover, engage himself to a viscount’s daughter, and apprehend a traitor to the Crown. The one difficulty is that it isn’t the viscount’s daughter who’s caught his eye, but the innkeeper’s daughter instead. Ever since her father’s death and…
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REVIEW of The Ladies of Ivy Cottage, by Julie Klassen (Tales from Ivy Hill #2)
The second book in Julie Klassen’s Ivy Hill series came out earlier this month, and I was happy to use it to inaugurate my new Kindle that David bought me for Christmas! The Ladies of Ivy Cottage picks up the stories of Mercy Grove, Jane Bell, and Rachel Ashford from the previous book. Mercy continues…
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REVIEW of Courting the Country Miss, by Donna Hatch
The story opens with Leticia (“Tish”) heartbroken. Richard, the man she had always assumed she would marry, is now married to another, and it all his brother Tristan’s fault. Fortunately, she has made friends with Richard’s new wife Elizabeth and the two of them are planning to start a charity school for poor girls to…
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REVIEW of The Devil in Beauty, by Heidi Ashworth
The Devil in Beauty is Heidi Ashworth’s first foray into historical mystery and the first in a series with the Marquis of Trevelin as a detective. The characters were superbly painted, particularly the protagonist. Lord Trevelin (“Trev”) is a pariah in polite society. Not only did he fight a duel over a married woman, but…
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REVIEW of A Stranger at Fellsworth, by Sarah E. Ladd
Annabelle Thorley has been left an orphan in London and now her alcoholic, abusive brother wants to marry her off to a rich, but deplorable, friend to keep his own affairs afloat. Having no one else to turn to, Annabelle asks Owen Locke, a kind gamekeeper who earlier protected her from a pickpocket, to help…
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REVIEW of Murder Will Speak (The Berkeley Brigade #1), by Joan Smith
Corinne deCoventry, a young widow from Berkeley Square, discovers that her pearls have gone missing at a masquerade ball. And even worse, they’re the pearls she was supposed to return to her late husband’s family in the next few days, the pearls worth ten thousand pounds! With the help of her cousin Coffen Pattle and…
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