Melisende's Reviews

Here is a short list to some of the books I have reviewed (though by all means not all books I have reviewed - just those posted on this blog):


Reviews on Goodreads

• The Truth About Archie & Pye - Jonathan Pinnock
• Miss Seeton Series - Heron Carvic, Hampton Charles, Hamilton Crane
• Imogene Museum Mysteries - Jerusha Jones
• Margaret Tudor - Sarah-Beth Watkins and Melanie Clegg
• Mala Vida - Marc Fernandez
• Unquiet Women - Max Adams
• Women Warriors - Pamela D Toler
• Heir Apparent - James Terry
• Empress - Ruby Lal
• Yellowthread Street - William Marshall
• The Council of Twelve - Oliver Potzsch
• The Queen's Progress - MJ Trow
• Weyland's Revenge - Lesley Lodge
• Scoundrels - Majors Cornwall and Trevelyan
• Paisanos - Tim Fanning
• Henry VIII and the Men Who Made Him - Tracy Borman
• The Lady in the Cellar - Sinclair McKay
• The Man of Dangerous Secrets - Maxwell March (aka Margery Allingham)
• Handsome Johnny - Lee Server
• Kin - Snorri Kristjansson
• The Monastery Murders - EM Powell
• Accident on the A35 - Graeme Macrae Burnett
• Master of War (series) - David Gilman
• Soul of Toledo - Edward Webster
• Barcelona Heiress - Sergio Vila San Juan
• Colossus: Stone & Steel - David Blixt
• Dr Jekyll & Mr Seek - Anthony O'Neill
• Slave Queen - HB Moore
• Blood of Kings - MK Hume
• A Long Crazy Burn - Jeff Johnson
• The Man From The Train - Bill James
• Tagged For Murder - Jack Fredrickson
• Noir: A Novel - Christopher Moore
• Sydney Noir - John Dale
• Guess Who - Chris McGeorge
• Domina - Guy de la Bodoyere
• Weird War 2 - Richard Denning
• The Vikings - Martyn & Hannah Whittock
• Marrakech Noir - Yessin Adnan
• Baghdad Noir - Samuel Schimon
• Song Castle - Luke Waterson
• The Moriarty Papers - Sebastian Moran
• A Necessary Murder - MJ Tjia
• Anne of Cleves - Sarah-Beth watkins
• August Falling - Les Zig
• A History of France - John Julius Norwich
• A Gentleman's Murder - Christopher Huang
• Punishment - Scott J Holliday
• The Murder Pit - Mick Finlay
• Hollywood Hang Ten - Eve Goldberg
• A Cruel Necessity - LC Tyler
• The Traitor's Niche - Ismail Kadare
• Bottom Feeders - John Shepphird
• Fiction Can Be Murder - Becky Clark
• Mystery of the Templars - Martina Andre
• Killing In C Sharp - Alexia Gordon
• The Lost Tudor Princess - Alison Weir
• Gunpowder Girls - Tanya Anderson
• The Plantagenets - Dan Jones
• The Man on the Middle Floor - Elizabeth S Moore
• The Birdman's Wife - Melissa Ashley
• The Brewer of Preston - Andrea Camilleri
• The Woman on the Orient Express - Lindsay Jayne Ashford
• The Harrowing - James Aitcheson
• The Stronghold - Albrecht Behmel
• The Doctor of Broad Street - Katherine Tansley
• Of Relics & Romance - Evan Ostryzniuk
• The Black Prince of Florence - Catherine Fletcher
• The Price You Pay - Adrian Truhen
• The Woman in the Window - AJ Finn
• Saxon's Bane - Geoffrey Gudgion
• Rebels at the Bar - Jill Norgren
• Sinners & the Sea - Rebecca Kanner
• Jaya Jones Treasure Hunt Mysteries - Gigi Pandian
• Raven Saga - Giles Kristian
• The King of Fools - Frederic Dard
• Down For The Count - Martin Holemn
• The King's Company - Jessamy Taylor
• Prague Noir - Pavel Mandys
• She Be Damned - MJ Thia
• Anne Bonney - Philip Thomas Tucker
• Killing Rasputin - Margarita Nelipa
• The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton
• The King Of The Crime Writers: The Biography of John Creasey by Nigel Cawthorne
• Finding the Dragon Lady - Monique Demery
• Constantine the Great - John Firth
• Crusade & Jihad - William Polk
• The Habsburgs - Benjamin Curtis
• Noir Fiction (Buenos Aires & Montreal Noir) - Ernesto Mallo & Jaques Filippi
• The Prince Who Would Be King - Sarah Fraser
• Parlour Games and the Public Life of Women in Renaissance Italy - George McClure
• Ashes of London - Andrew Taylor
• Queens of the Conquest - Alison Weir
• Maigret & the Tall Woman - Georges Simenon
• The Chiron Confession - Thomas Greanias
• The Bandy Papers - Donald Jack
• Christopher Wild - Kathe Koja
• A Dangerous Woman - Susan Ronald
• The Mediterranean World - Monique O'Connell
• The Wicked Boy - Kate Summerscale
• The Mitford Murders - Jessica Fellowes
• The Sun King Conspiracy - Yves Jego and Denis Lépée
• Singleton & Trelawney series - Fabrice Bourland
• Weycombe - GM Malliet
• Hook's Tale - John Leonard Pielmeier
• Prague Nights (aka: Wolf on a String) - Benjamin Black
• The Last Viking Trilogy - Poul Anderson
• Blackstone - Richard Falkirk (aka Derek Lambert)
• By Gaslight - Steven Price
• A Short Life of Pushkin - Robert Chandler
• Gambrelli & the Prosecutor - Laurence Giliotti
• Ten Dead Comedians - Fred van Lente
• Defiance: The Extraordinary Life of Lady Anne Barnard - Stephen Taylor
• The Painted Gun - Bradley Spinelli
• Death on Delos - Gary Corby
• Outsider in Amsterdam - Janwillem van de Wetering
• The Forgotten Queen - DL Bogdan
• The Children of Henry VIII - Alison Weir & John Guy
• The Dollhouse - Fiona Davis
• The Driver - Hart Hanson
• The Drowning King - Emily Holleman
• Seized by the Sun - James Ure
• The Devil's Cup - Alys Clare
• In & Out of the Mediterranean - Michele Hamilton
• Catherine of Braganza - Sarah-Beth Watkins
• The Scandalous Life of Sasha Torte - Lesley Truffle
• The Kingdom of Women - Choo Wai Hong
• The Pilgrim - Davis Bunn
• The Fortunes of France - Robert Merle
• Vindolanda - Adrian Goldsworthy
• A Secret Well Kept - Constance Kell
• Gun In Cheek - Bill Pronzini
• The Last Duel - Eric Jager
• Blood Royal - Eric Jager
• The Draper's Daughter - Ellin Carsta
• Accused - Mark Toscano
• Archie Meets Nero Wolfe - Robert Goldsworthy
• God's Bankers - Gerald Posner
• The Man in the Iron Mask - Roger MacDonald
• The Bolter - Frances Osborne
• The Ruin - John Sawney
• Ganada Gold - SA Carney
• Six Million Accusers - David Lawrence Young
• A Name in Blood - Matt Rees
• Trade Winds to Meluhha - Vasant Dave
• The Landing - Colin Taber
• Anne of Cleves - David Lawrence Young
• Reign: A Story of Jezebel - Ginger Garratt
• Tree of Pearls - Jurji Zaydan
• The Time of the Wolf - James Wilde
• Daughter of Jerusalem - Joan Wolf
• Freud's Sisters - Goce Smilevski
• The Ruins of Lace - Iris Anthony
• Shooting Victoria - Paul Thomas Murphy
• The Master of Verona - David Blixt
• The Pleasures of Men - Kate Williams
• Sacred Treason - James Forrester (aka Ian Mortimer)
• Blood Lance - Jeri Westerson
• Queens & Empresses - Mark Hitchens
• The Celtic Dagger - Jill Paterson
• Countesses of Castello - Milena Agus
• Daughters of the Witching Hill - Mary Sharratt
• Tuscan Countess - Michele Spike
• The King's Smuggler - John Fox
• Dirty Little Angles - Chris Tusa

Reviews posted on my other blog, Women of History

• The Winter Mantle by Elizabeth Chadwick
• The Tigress & the Rose by Richard Cameron Low
• Boudicca by Vanessa Collingridge
• Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir
• The Greatest Knight by Elizabeth Chadwick
• The Scarlet Lion by Elizabeth Chadwick
• The King's Women by Deryn Lake
• Duchess of Aquitaine - I by Margaret Ball
• Duchess of Aquitaine - II by Margaret Ball
• The Lost Letters of Aquitaine by Judith Koll Healey
• The Crown Rose by Fiona Avery
• The Poisoned Queen by Ann Dukthas
• Dissolution by CS Sansom
• The Royal Physician by Per Olav Enquist
• The Foodtaster by Peter Elbling
• The Tudor Sisters by Aileen Armitage

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