The Unknown Beloved by Amy Harmon (review)

Author Amy Harmon has been on my reading wishlist for quite some time and the premise of her latest novel, The Unknown Beloved, had me intrigued with the title and hooked by the premise. Starting in 1923, then picking up 15 years later during the Great Depression, this story of an undercover operative and the …

The Nurse’s Secret by Amanda Skenandore (review + tour-wide giveaway)

The Nurse's Secret by Amanda Skenandore Publication Date: June 28, 2022 Kensington Books Genre: Historical Fiction From acclaimed author and registered nurse Amanda Skenandore, The Alienist meets The Light of Luna Park in a fascinating historical novel based on the little-known story of America’s first nursing school, as a young female grifter in 1880s New …

Spotlight: A Deadly Legacy by Malia Zaidi (book excerpt+giveaway)

A Deadly Legacy by Malia Zaidi Publication Date: March 15, 2022 Paperback & eBook Genre: Historical Mystery Series: A Lady Evelyn Mystery, Book 6 A few months after the Carlisle Detective Agency opened its doors, Lady Evelyn and her partner, Hugh, are twiddling their thumbs. The cases are slow to trickle in, leaving the detectives …

The Scarlet Pen by Jennifer Uhlarik (review)

In a series that aims to bring light and hope into stories of darkness, The Scarlet Pen stands out for bringing laughter as well. The relationship between Clay Timmons and Emma Draycott becomes something so delightful, and his friendships with the two men who have looked out for him since their days in the Pony …

The Blue Cloak by Shannon McNear (review)

I was excited to see that Shannon McNear had a book in the True Colors multi-author series based on real historical American crime. Fifth in the series, which can be read in any order, The Blue Cloak tells the story of the infamous Harpe brothers - brutal serial killers in the post-Revolutionary American frontier. Told …

The Silver Shadow by Liz Tolsma (review)

Liz Tolsma's The Silver Shadow is based around crimes perpetrated by the once infamous "Capitol Hill Thug" who assaulted women walking alone after dark in 1900-1901 Denver. In an end note, the author states that this was her most fictionalized of the four stories she's written for the multi-author True Colors series of true American …

Book Blast: A Venomous Love by Chris Karlsen

A Venomous Loveby Chris Karlsen Publication Date: February 25, 2020Paperback & eBook; 340 pages Series: Bloodstone, Book 3Genre: Historical/Suspense/Victorian     A veteran, Detective Rudyard Bloodstone has fought a brutal battle and witnessed war horrors that haunt his nightmares. Now one of those horrors has followed him home from Africa. A vicious predator, the Cape …

Launch Event News for Vintage Crime – An Anthology from the Crime Writers’ Association, Edited by Martin Edwards

Vintage Crime from the Crime Writers' Association Edited by Martin Edwards Published by Flame Tree Press on August 11, 2020 in hardcover, paperback, and ebook About The Book Vintage Crime is a CWA anthology with a difference, celebrating members’ work over the years. The book will gather stories from the mid-1950s until the twenty-first century by …