reviews

Mothers, Daughters, and Vows Author: Rebecca D'Harlingue It’s 1661 in Madrid; the Spanish Inquisition is going strong, and a good woman does not travel alone, much less a sixteen year old girl. But Juliana, if she wants to survive, has to escape her father’s wrath and find a new place for herself. Alone. Jump forward in time to 1992, where a packet of letters and an old diary open up a new understanding to Rachel, a grieving daughter who is still trying to understand her own mother’s secrets and the lines that have separated them. As she reads, she becomes swept [...]

A Rollicking, High Action 1920s Adventure Author: Patricia Wentworth In this 1920s mystery/thriller, Hugo Ross is so desperate for a job that he skulks around the foreboding house of an eccentric inventor, hoping to be hired on as assistant. And he is! But a warning from a mysterious woman who was running away has left him suspicious. The renowned inventor, Ambrose Minstrel, and his snarky secretary aren’t exactly on the up-and-up. The tantrums, the strange requests, and the bizarre men who are now following Hugo lead him to suspect that he is the unwitting fool in an elaborate set-up. He can’t [...]

"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night. . . " Author: Bentley Little In a small Arizona town, just as summer vacation hits, the everyday routine is shattered when the beloved mailman is discovered, dead, with a shotgun in his mouth. No one knew he was suicidal. As the town mourns, the summer starts to turn strange. The peculiar new mailman, who goes by the name of John Smith, is too good to be true. Bills have stopped showing up and good news and long lost friends are popping up through the post. But this sudden change has [...]