The Baker Street Mysteries #1,#2 by Holly Hepburn – Superfluous Reading
The Missing Maid
In this first story we meet Harry White, a woman who doesn’t need to work but wants to. Her mother just wants...
Kimberly Brock’s The Fabled Earth unfolds a multilayered mystery surrounding Georgia’s Cumberland Island
In her third novel, Brock (The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare, 2022) proves marvelously adept at intertwining mythic stories with contemporary reality and showing...
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The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich (audiobook)
genre: contemporary fictionIn a North Dakota prairie town, the lives of both young and old are caught in the seasonal web that is sugar...
Sail the world with these recent and upcoming pirate novels
Ahoy there! Has anyone else noticed the number of historical fiction about pirates appearing lately? There are enough of them to warrant some notice....
Weyward by Emilia Hart (audiobook)
genre: historical fiction/magical realismWeyward weaves together the stories of three women in three different centuries, all connected not just by the family blood in...
Ten Novels Inspired by Poets
Wordsworth described poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility." That phrase resonates with me...
Movie: A pinch of Portugal
A prep cook is elevated to the spotlight on a cooking show after the celebrity chef quits. The cute Aussie cameramen plays a key...
The Passionate Tudor by Alison Weir depicts the complicated, ultimately tragic...
Mary I, England’s first true queen regnant, isn’t generally recognized for her admirable steadfastness, like her mother Catherine of Aragon, or her canny survival...
The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
genre: non-fiction, historyA great friend of mine recommended this book on The Dust Bowl to me and I now know why. While I have...