Tag Archives: England

Review: A Murder in Time by Julie McElwain

Posted on April 12, 2016 by Jenn

No reason to hold back, there is nothing about this book I didn’t enjoy! It captures so much of everything I love in fiction, into one beautifully wrapped package.  Time travel, suspense, romance, history…this novel genuinely has it all.  Imagine … Continue reading →

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Review: Rustication by Charles Palliser

Posted on December 9, 2013 by Jenn

Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (November 4, 2013) ISBN-10: 0393088723 Source: Publisher It is the winter 1863. Seventeen year old Richard Shenstone has been suspended from Cambridge amid a cloud of suspicion. He seeks temporary solace in a crumbling old mansion … Continue reading →

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Mx3 Review: Haunted by James Herbert

Posted on October 15, 2012 by Jenn

Paperback:240 pages Publisher:Pan Macmillan (May 4, 2007) ISBN-10: 033045157X Source: Personal Copy David Ash is called to Edbrook, an isolated English house, to investigate an alleged haunting. An investigator from Psychical Research Institute, Ash is a psychic…and also a skeptic. … Continue reading →

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Review: The Unseen by Katherine Webb

Posted on June 27, 2012 by Jenn

Paperback: 464 pages Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (May 22, 2012) ISBN-10: 0062077880 Source: Publisher Reverend Albert Canning and his wife, Hester, live in a quiet Berkshire village in 1911. Both are young, Hester is already dreaming of filling … Continue reading →

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Review: Daughters of the Witching Hill by Mary Sharratt

Posted on April 7, 2010 by Jenn

Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (April 7, 2010) ISBN-10: 0547069677 Source: Publisher Beth Southerns is a poor beggar woman who lives in Pendle Forest in Northern England. Desperate to keep her family fed, she draws from the folk … Continue reading →

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