The Mystery of Mrs. Christie One historical event, two points of view. Marie Benedict’s novel, The Mystery of Mrs. Christie, demonstrates for the reader
When I was young, and just learning to appreciate the worlds where fiction could transport me, I found myself enchanted by the novels of Daphne
A Race to Splendor Historical romances tend to follow a predictable formula. Set at some crucial moment in the past, the story centers on a
BLACKOUT You probably shouldn’t read (as I did) Marc Elsberg’s thriller, Blackout, while cable news is concentrating on the catastrophic outcomes of a spreading coronavirus.
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The Engineer’s Wife, a novel of the Brooklyn Bridge. A 21st -century novel about a late 19th and early 20th-century brilliant wife. I’m beginning to
The Arctic Fury – Greer Macallister’s historical novel calls for a willing suspension of disbelief, historical fiction at its best. Greer Macallister based her novel,
Paris and Fallen Architects – Two novels, one author, an architect by training, a novelist by inclination. An architect by training and a novelist by
Carnegie’s Maid – Marie Benedict’s insightful and creative imagining of a non-factual character in a thoroughly factual historical fiction. In her conversational comments at the
The Girl Who Wrote in Silk – two different centuries, two different ladies, and one idyllic island, I have a soft spot in
The Last Mona Lisa, Jonathan Santlofer’s retelling of the August 21, 1911, theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louve, is ingenious. Art theft, forgery,
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