With Every Letter
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Lt. Mellie Blake is looking forward to beginning her training as a flight nurse. She is not looking...
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The Green Dress (True Colors #6)
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Fiction Based on Strange, But True, History True, riveting stories of American criminal activity...
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The Scarlet Pen (True Color #12)
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Step into True Colors — a series of Historical Stories of Romance and True American Crime ...
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ClareR (6241 KP) rated Traitor in the Ice in Books
May 27, 2026
These Daniel Pursglove books are on my list of “Series I didn’t want to read and now I’m addicted to”, and they all seem to be historical fiction mysteries. Because, y’know, I don’t like mysteries either.
So! Daniel Pursglove is a spy in the early 1600’s and here he is, embroiled in the religious goings-on of the Montagues - a family who are rumoured to shelter Catholics. King James isn’t happy.
There are loads of secrets, spooky occurrences, a murder or two and plenty of suspense. It seems very historically accurate to me: it’s winter, and everything is cold, dark and difficult to live in!
This is a series I’ll be continuing with, there are another two books so far, so that should illustrate how good they are. He’s a very likeable main character, and he’s clearly being pressurised into being a spy.
Recommended!
ClareR (6241 KP) rated Daughter of the Mists in Books
Nov 23, 2025
I’ve read and really enjoyed a couple of Barbara Erskine novels, and Daughter of the Mists is very much in that style.
Hanna has dreamt of a girl, a slave, since she was a teenager, and when she returns to Norfolk these dreams become much more vivid. I really enjoyed how the narrative seemed to slip naturally from one time to the other. I wasn’t left wondering what was going on, or where I was in time. I found the Roman/ Iceni timeline fascinating, and there were some uncomfortable descriptions of what life was like under the Roman rule. It was also good to see that the Iceni’s had a much more liberated view of the role of women than the Romans did!
This is an ideal book for those who enjoy historical fiction, romance and a bit of time slippage!
Erika Kehlet (21 KP) rated Called to Justice (Quaker Midwife Mystery #2) in Books
Feb 21, 2018
There was a lot of attention to detail and historical accuracy where the births in the story were concerned. See what author Edith Maxwell has to say about midwives and the birthing process on <a href="https://booksthething.com/2017/04/06/called-to-justice-by-edith-maxwell-guest-post-and-giveaway/">my blog</a>.
The Black Midnight (True Crime #7)
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Two Series of Murders Seem Mysteriously Connected Step into True Colors -- a series of Historical...
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The Women at Hitler’s Table
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Inspired by the powerful true story of Margot Wölk, this is a heartbreaking and gripping historical...
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Creature: A Novel of Mary Shelley and Frankenstein
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In 1816, a nineteen-year-old single mother wrote a book that transformed our vision of birth,...
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The King’s Inquisitor (Stuart Monarch, #2)
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In The King's Inquisitor, the queen of Scotland is dead. Her almoner’s son, William Broune, has...
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