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Showing posts with label 18th century. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 18th century. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 16, 2025

PD Lennon — The Case of the Mad Doctor

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Inspired by the true story of Jamaica’s first serial killer. Jamaica, 1772. Caribbean jewel, or a killer’s playground? On the island of Jama...
Monday, May 12, 2025

Review: The Art of a Lie by Laura Shepherd-Robinson

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Synopsis: Following the murder of her husband in what looks like a violent street robbery, Hannah Cole is struggling to keep her head above...
Wednesday, January 1, 2025

Review: Sicilian Avengers by Luigi Natoli

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Synopsis: A thrilling Sicilian saga about the legendary secret sect purported to be forerunners of the Mafia, translated into English for t...
Friday, February 9, 2024

Review: A Grave For A Thief by Douglas Skelton

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Synopsis: England, 1716. The only certainty in a thief’s life… is death. Christopher Templeton is a lawyer whose conscience troubles him. H...
Tuesday, January 9, 2024

Review: A Thief's Justice by Douglas Skelton

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Synopsis: London, 1716. Revenge is a dish best served ice cold…The city is caught in the vice-like grip of a savage winter. Even the Thames...
Monday, December 25, 2023

Review: The Pirate's Wife by Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos

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Synopsis: The dramatic and deliciously swashbuckling story of Sarah Kidd, the wife of the famous pirate Captain Kidd, charting her transfor...
Sunday, April 25, 2021

By My Sword Alone by David Black

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The Battle of Glenshiel, 1719. Thirteen-year-old James Lindsay watches the action unfold as the Jacobite forces supported by his family are ...
Saturday, October 24, 2020

Jewish Women and Their Salons by Emily Bilski & Emily Braun

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From their debut in Berlin in the 1780s to their emergence in 1930s California, Jewish women’s salons served as welcoming havens where all c...
Sunday, September 20, 2020

Review: The Inspector of Strange & Unexplained Deaths by Olivier Barde-Cabucon

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Synopsis: Everyone has secrets. Even the king. When a gruesomely mutilated body is found on the doorstep of the Versailles Palace in 17...
Tuesday, August 4, 2020

Review: Dark Archives by Megan Rosenbloom

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Synopsis: On bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest other volumes of a distinctly str...
Sunday, June 21, 2020

Review: Espionage in the Divided Stuart Dynasty 1685 - 1715 by Julian Whitehead

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Synopsis: King James II was the Catholic king of a Protestant nation, but he had inherited a secure crown and was able to put down the re...
Thursday, April 2, 2020

Review: The Drowning Guard by Linda Lafferty

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Synopsis: Each morning in the hour before dawn, a silent boat launches on the Bosphorous, moving swiftly into the deepest part of the wate...
Wednesday, April 1, 2020

The King's Midwife : A History and Mystery of Madame du Coudray by Nina Rattner Gelbart

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This unorthodox biography explores the life of an extraordinary Enlightenment woman who, by sheer force of character, parlayed a skill in m...
Sunday, March 29, 2020

Books: Medieval Books

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Prince of the Press: How One Collector Built History’s Most Enduring and Remarkable Jewish Library by  Joshua Teplitsky The story of one ...
Saturday, February 22, 2020

Review: Sisters In Arms by Julie Wheelwright

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Synopsis: A history of female combatants, from those who joined the military disguised as men to the current role of women in the armed fo...
Saturday, November 2, 2019

Review: the Caribbean Irish by Miki Garcia

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Synopsis: The Caribbean Irish explores the little known fact that the Irish were amongst the earliest settlers in the Caribbean. They beca...
Wednesday, October 2, 2019

Culloden by Murray Pittock

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The battle of Culloden lasted less than an hour. The forces involved on both sides were small, even by the standards of the day. And it i...