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#BookReview ‘Blood-Tied’ by @wendy_percival
A mysterious beginning with an invalid, threatened by a stranger. Just who is this woman and what is her connection to Esme Quentin? Blood–Tied by Wendy Percival is the first of the Esme Quentin series...
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#BookReview ‘Bloodline’ by @FionaMountain
This is a combination of genealogical mystery, murder investigation and historical examination of the Nazis. Bloodline by Fiona Mountain, the second Natasha Blake mystery, covers a lot of ground from...
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Book review: The Doll Funeral
The Doll Funeral by Kate Hamer is a dark, despairing and at times confusing tale of identity and the creeping links of family and genetics across the generations. It is about the difficult adoptive...
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Book review: The Orange Lilies
This is a novella, a short book which I wanted to be longer. Set at Christmas 2014 it revisits Christmas 100 years earlier, the first year of the Great War, and follows the story of one man in the...
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#BookReview ‘Shadow Baby’ by Margaret Forster
A slow-build read which, by halfway, had me glued to the page. It is in part a story about unplanned pregnancy – choices, motherhood and how a girl grows to be a mother herself – and part social...
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#BookReview ‘The America Ground’ by @NathanDGoodwin
The America Ground by Nathan Dylan Goodwin is based on a fascinating piece of local history, indeed Goodwin’s own family history, and made into a historical thriller. On April 28, 1827, a woman is...
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#Bookreview ‘File under Family’ by Geraldine Wall #genealogy #mystery
Anna Ames is a trainee probate genealogist working for Triple H, Harts Heir Hunters, and File under Family is the first in a series of genealogy mysteries about Anna by Geraldine Wall. When Margaret...
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#Bookreview ‘File under Fear’ by Geraldine Wall #genealogy #mystery
Second in the series about probate researcher turned genealogy detective Anna Ames, File Under Fear by Geraldine Wall takes off running from where the previous book left off. This is a well-written,...
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#Bookreview ‘The Sun Sister’ by Lucinda Riley @lucindariley #mystery
Electra, the youngest d’Aplièse sister in the Seven Sisters series of adoption mysteries by Lucinda Riley, has always seemed the most explosive personality of the siblings. And so The Sun Sister, sixth...
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#BookReview ‘The Woman of Substance’ by Piers Dudgeon #biography
The Woman of Substance by Piers Dudgeon is in part an authorised biography of A Woman of Substance writer Barbara Taylor Bradford, and part analysis of how Barbara’s own family history features in her...
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