Historical fiction
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For Stacking The Shelves hosted by Reading Reality I’m posting the books I’ve added to my digital library this week, and the blurbs that made me download them in the first place. Murder on the Lamplight Express by Morgan Stang The orders given to Isabeau Agarwal and her partner are simple: ensure the safety of…
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Tonight, Isabeau Agarwal, Huntress, would kill one of ten guests in Spindle Manor. A fabulously weird and wondrous cozy horror novel blending historical fiction, steampunk elements, paranormal mystery and gothic fantasy. Spindle Manor is a remote guesthouse where the huntress Isabeau Agarwal is hoping to apprehend a deadly monster disguising itself as one of a…
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This week I’m joining the #oldskoolchallengeclub with the Cluedo challenge by @chapter1.page1, finding book titles to answer the questions Who was the murderer? Where did the crime occur? With what was the murder committed? “Where” in Cluedo refers to a room in a house, but I don’t have any book titles in my collection that…
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Today I’m joining The Sunday Salon at Readerbuzz with an update on my Sunday Shelf Exploration challenge to myself to find and read books from my out-of-control digital collection. Since my last Sunday Shelf Exploration post, I’ve read three of the books I featured, Unnatural Causes by T. E. Harkins, The Unlikely Murder Club by…
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Many thanks to @taherasplace for tagging me in the One Word Title challenge by Dee @chapter1.page1 for the #oldskoolchallengeclub. I had a look through my ebook collection and came up with these 10 books. Alice by Gary Gautier From Goodreads: Alice’s commune seems a small hippie utopia in a dreamlike forest, but the utopian surface…
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“Died of fright.” Mrs. Harrington’s voice sounds faraway. “The phantom. The Belgravia Phantom.” Ad/PR. Many thanks to Ellis Blackwood for this ebook. The Belgravia Phantom is a historical mystery set in Victorian London, featuring the Quill siblings lead by the eldest, Kate Quill, who does her best to keep a roof over her siblings’ heads.…
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Sergeant, you must send a man at once! There’s a burglar in my house, and how he’s dead, because I hit him with my poker! But one can kill burglars, surely? A historical mystery with a Golden Age feel, set in 1935 in London. Spinster artist Felicia Adams surprises a burglar in her home, and…
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Why did standing up for women’s rights have to be a scandal? A dark Victorian drama set at Bristol University College. Twenty-year-old Evangeline Moore dreams of becoming an architect. She is grieving the loss of her father, who supported her ambitions of wanting more in life than marriage and children, and estranged from her mother,…
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Ad/PR. In August I read cozy mysteries, horrors, fantasy, historical mysteries, and cozy/paranormal fantasy. I read about deadly deception and manipulation, about blurred boundaries between fiction and reality, about goblins, trolls, werevolves, vampires and witches, spunky young adventurers and clever retirees. Emoji Guide🤗 = cozy💖 = romantic😱 = scary💡 = thought provoking💥 = action packed😂…
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In recognition of the fact that I have way too many ebooks just sitting around, doing whatever the digital equivalent to gathering dust on the shelf is, I’ve decided to introduce Sunday Shelf Exploration, which is what I plan to call it when I take a look at my ebook collection through a scavenger hunt,…
