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Review Posted Online: September 21, 2021 — My Rating: 5-Stars This review was posted to Goodreads, BookBub, The StoryGraph, and Reedsy/Discovery. JURASSIC ARK is a work of speculative fiction, an alternate religious treatise perhaps, but fiction nonetheless. As I read the early chapters, I was reminded of the movie “Noah.” There was quite a hubbub…
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Review Posted Online: July 23, 2021 — My Rating: 5-Stars This review was posted to Amazon, Goodreads, BookBub, The StoryGraph, and Reedsy/Discovery. Good historical fiction combines verifiable fact with a great story… a believable story. In THE MAD WOMEN’S BALL, Victoria Mas has done the research and built a tale of what it was to…
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Review Posted Online: April 26, 2024 — My Rating: 5-Stars This review was posted to Goodreads, BookBub, The StoryGraph, and Reedsy/Discovery. I just finished the third and final book in the Mrs. Hudson & Sherlock Holmes series called A SPIDER’S WEB. While not quite canon, the books are an interesting take on characters that readers…
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Review Posted Online: April 25, 2024 — My Rating: 5-Stars This review was posted to Goodreads, BookBub, The StoryGraph, and Reedsy/Discovery. IN SHERLOCK’S SHADOW puts the spotlight directly on Nell Hudson. It’s been a year since Sherlock Holmes appeared at 221B Baker Street seeking lodgings. A personal and professional partnership has blossomed between Sherlock and…
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Review Posted Online: April 25, 2024 — My Rating: 5-Stars This review was posted to Goodreads, BookBub, The StoryGraph, and Reedsy/Discovery. Mrs. Hudson. Who is she? How did Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson come to be her lodgers at 221B Baker Street? Curious minds want to know! I wouldn’t add A HOUSE OF MIRRORS into…
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Review Posted Online: April 15, 2024 — My Rating: 5-Stars This review was posted to Goodreads, BookBub, and The StoryGraph. The original tales of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle, have created a cottage industry for mystery writers to pen their own adventures of Holmes and Watson adding new characters and diverse situations. The team…
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Review Posted Online: April 13, 2024 — My Rating: 5-Stars This review was posted to Goodreads, BookBub, The StoryGraph, and Reedsy/Discovery. BONFIRE OF THE BEASTS is political satire at its best. It is one thing to read the classic works NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR and ANIMAL FARM, by George Orwell, written seventy-five plus years ago; it is…
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Review Posted Online: April 5, 2024 — My Rating: 5-Stars This review was posted to Goodreads, BookBub, The StoryGraph, and Reedsy/Discovery. We expect to read about monsters in horror and some science fiction books, but the real monsters are those among us whose deeds are appallingly inhuman. There are the infamous barbaric leaders like Hitler…
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Review Posted Online: April 2, 2024 — My Rating: 5-Stars This review was posted to Goodreads, BookBub, The StoryGraph, and Reedsy/Discovery. New Orleans is a favorite place of mine, so putting the Nocturne House in that picturesque city, with its blues music and voodoo shops, only adds to the book’s attraction. In NOCTURNE HOUSE, a…
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