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• Review: Snow White Red-Handed by Maia Chance

  

  Description (from cover): 'Miss Ophelia Flax is a Victorian actress who knows all about making quick changes and even quicker exits. Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: Mrs. Poe by Lynn Cullen

  

  Description (from cover): 'From acclaimed author Lynn Cullen--whose The Creation of Eve was hailed as "intoxicating" by the Washington Post and "a swoon-worthy... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: Murder in the Queen's Garden by Amanda Carmack

  

  Description (from cover): '1559. Elizabeth has been on the throne for six months, and life in England seems newly golden. But for the royal court, murder and... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: For Whom the Bluebell Tolls by Beverly Allen

  

  Description (from cover): 'Florist Audrey Bloom, co-owner of the Rose in Bloom, creates fragrant bouquets for brides. But when a wedding goes fatally wrong, it'... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: Bloom and Doom by Beverly Allen

  

  Description (from cover): 'As the co-owner of the Rose in Bloom, Audrey Bloom creates magnificent flower arrangements for brides to be. Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: Geared for the Grave by Duffy Brown

  

  Description (from cover): 'Mackinac Island is a peaceful summer resort town where everyone coasts through the streets on bicycles. Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Blog Tour Stop & Review: Garden of Death by Chrystle Fiedler

  

  Description (from cover): 'When a local doctor is found dead in Willow McQuade's medicinal garden, she must find the killer to clear her boyfriend's name in thi... Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: What the Lady Wants by Renee Rosen

  

  Description (from cover): 'In late-nineteenth-century Chicago, visionary retail tycoon Marshall Field made his fortune wooing women customers with his famous... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: The Witch Hunter's Tale by Sam Thomas

  

  Description (from cover): 'Sam Thomas takes readers back to Puritan England with midwife Bridger Hodgson, hailed by the Plain Dealer as "one of the most... Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: The Ghost and Mrs. Mewer by Krista Davis

  

  Description (from cover): 'Wagtail, Virginia, the top pet-friendly getaway in the United States, is gearing up for a howling good Halloween--until a spooky... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: Murder, She Barked by Krista Davis

  

  Description (from cover): 'The Sugar Maple Inn in Wagtail, Virginia, is the country's premier vacation hot spot for pet owners who can't bear to leave their... Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Blog Tour Stop & Review: Suspendered Sentence by Laura Bradford

  

  Description (from cover): 'Living among the Amish of Heavenly, Pennsylvania, shop owner Claire Weatherly has come to appreciate a simpler, more peaceful way of... Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Blog Tour Stop & Review: The Edge of Dreams by Rhys Bowen

  

  Description (from cover): 'Molly Murphy Sullivan's husband Daniel, a captain in the New York City police force, is stumped. He's chasing a murderer whose victim... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Blog Tour Stop & Review: The Counterfeit Heiress by Tasha Alexander

  

  Description (from cover): 'In this thrilling new addition to the New York Times bestselling series, Lady Emily Hargreaves and her dashing husband Colin travel t... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: Shunned and Dangerous by Laura Bradford

  

  Description (from cover): 'Living in the small town of Heavenly, Pennsylvania, Claire Weatherly has come to admire the Amish for their wholesome, honest way of... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: A Virtuous Death by Christine Trent

  

  Description (from cover): 'Queen Victoria, still mourning her long-dead husband Prince Albert, has found solace in John Brown, an enigmatic palace servant who... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: Stolen Remains by Christine Trent

  

  Description (from cover): 'After establishing her reputation as one of London's most highly regarded undertakes, Violet Harper decided to take her practice to... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: Keeper of the Castle by Juliet Blackwell

  

  Description (from cover): 'A job to die for. San Francisco contractor--and reluctant ghost buster--Mel Turner has been worried about finding enough... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: The Laws of Murder by Charles Finch

  

  Description (from cover): 'It's 1876, and Charles Lenox, once London's leading private investigator, has just given up his seat in Parliament after six years,... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: Murder in the Afternoon by Frances Brody

  

  Description (from cover): 'An intricate plot in the post-WWI English countryside and Frances Brody's 'refreshingly complex heroine' (Kirkus) combine in Murder i... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE