From the pleasure palaces and gin-shops of Covent Garden to the elegant townhouses of Mayfair, Laura Shepherd-Robinson’s Daughters of Night follows Caroline Corsham as she seeks justice for a murdered woman whom London society would rather forget . . . London, 1782. Desperate for her politician husband to return home from France, Caroline ‘Caro’ CorshamContinue reading “Daughters of Night by Laura Shepherd-Robinson #TuesdayBookBlog”
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Black As She’s Painted by William Savage #FridayReads #BookReview
An Ashmole Foxe Georgian Mystery This is the fifth Ashmole Foxe Georgian mystery but only the second I have read. William Savage is the authentic voice of Georgian Norfolk and the reader soon feels quite at home wandering the streets of Norwich with the finely dressed, eccentric, Ashmole Foxe. My personal fondness is for DrContinue reading “Black As She’s Painted by William Savage #FridayReads #BookReview”
The Music of the Spheres by Elizabeth Redfern #TuesdayBookBlog #BookReview
Book Blurb London, the summer of 1795: a season of revolutionary fervour, scientific discovery and vicious murders. The British government is in disarray, unable to stem the flood of secrets to Paris; betrayals that doom her war efforts to failure. In rural Kensington a group of French emigr-s are pursuing a scientific dream, the discoveryContinue reading “The Music of the Spheres by Elizabeth Redfern #TuesdayBookBlog #BookReview”
A Tincture of Secrets and Lies by William Savage #TuesdayBookBlog #RBRT
The fourth book of investigations by Dr Adam Bascom begins dramatically when he falls from his horse one dark evening, near to the site of a young woman’s murder. Finding himself incapacitated, Adam seeks the help of young Charles Scudamore, nephew of the entrancing Lady Alice Fouchard, to follow leads in this investigation asContinue reading “A Tincture of Secrets and Lies by William Savage #TuesdayBookBlog #RBRT”