Historical Fiction
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BLOG TOUR: A Trace of Deceit by Karen Odden @karen_odden @tlcbooktours @morrow_pb @wmmorrowbooks #atraceofdeceit
A Victorian mystery with everything you could want—a strong leading lady, a murder in London’s art world, a meticulous detective, and a missing painting. A Trace of Deceit is a gripping and complex…
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BLOG TOUR: One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow by Olivia Hawker @LUauthors @amazonpub @TLCbooktours #historicalfiction #bookreview
Set on the prairie in Wyoming in the late nineteenth century, One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow tells the story of two women who must learn to rely on one another…
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BOOK REVIEW: The Fifth Column by Andrew Gross @The_AndrewGross @MinotaurBooks #TheFifthColumn #minotaurbooks
In Andrew Gross’s latest historical thriller, complicated sociopolitical dynamics from the late 1930s surround a conspiracy uncovered involving U.S. government officials. The Fifth Column is particularly fascinating because it is set in a…
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BOOK REVIEW: The Vanished Bride by Bella Ellis @RowanColeman @BerkleyPub #TheVanishedBride #bookreview
I participated in an absolutely DELIGHTFUL buddy read of The Vanished Bride over the past few weeks. Are you a fan of mysteries? Women empowerment? Historical fiction based around read people or events?…
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BLOG TOUR: Castle of Concrete by Katia Raina @katiaraina1 @tlcbooktours #castleofconcrete
Castle of Concrete is a truly enlightening young adult historical fiction novel about a fifteen year-old Jewish girl being reunited with her mother in Moscow during the early 1990s as the Soviet Union…
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BOOK REVIEW: Milady by Laura L. Sullivan @berkleypub #milady #lauralsullivan #bookreview
“We all know history was written by men, and they so often get things wrong.” I always love a good reversal of classic stories, where the villain becomes the central character, and the…
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BOOK REVIEW: The Great Pretenders by Laura Kalpakian @LauraKalpakian @BerkleyPub #thegreatpretenders #bookreview
If you love a strong female lead and an old-Hollywood setting, Laura Kalpakian’s The Great Pretenders is a must-read book! Set in the 1950s, the book tells the story of Roxanne Granville, granddaughter…
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BOOK REVIEW: Park Avenue Summer by Renee Rosen @berkleypub @reneerosen1 #parkavenuesummer #bookreview #bookbestiesapproved
One of the best books I’ve read in 2019, I absolutely was captivated by Alice’s story about her summer in New York for Helen Gurley Brown! With a blend of historical fiction built…
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Book Review: When We Left Cuba | Chanel Cleeton
Chanel Cleeton’s Next Year in Havana, was a powerful historical fiction novel about a woman named Elisa Perez forced to flee Cuba with her family in 1958, and her granddaughter traveling to Cuba…
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BOOK REVIEW: Death of a New American by Mariah Fredericks @mariahfredericks @Minotaurbooks #minotaurbooks #deathofanewamerican #bookreview
A socially-conscious, atmospheric, historical mystery exploring issues of ethnicity, class, and gender equality in the backdrop of early 1900s New York City. The novel is set right after news of the Titanic hits…
