The Party
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An unforgettable story about two sisters and a night that changes everything, from the master...
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Home for the Homicides
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It's Christmastime in Army retiree Tessa Treslow's small Idaho hometown of New Oslo, but someone is...
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Jessie Mason lives with her nose in the pages of history. But she is about to discover that the past...
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David McK (3713 KP) rated Fortune Favours the Brave (Rifleman Dando #1) in Books
Feb 8, 2026
Otherwise known as Dando on the Delhi Ridge.
I actually read this as the first part in a 3-book compilation ("THE RIFLEMAN DANDO ADVENTURES three action-packed historical military thrillers"), thinking it may be something interesting, something akin to Bernard Cornwell's Napoleonic-set Sharpe series, or to Paul Fraser Collard's 'Jack Lark' series.
While the history may be - and, for me, was - interesting, unfortunately the plot around the rest of the story was not all that much so. I have to say, I also found the phonetic spelling "See 'ere" rather off-putting, although understandable in that the soldiers were usually drawn from the lower classes rather than the posh higher classes.
I also found the flashbacks to a pre-soldier Dando, and just how he came to be a redcoat, actually more interesting than the 'current events' of the Indian mutiny, for some reason.
Still, I'll read the next two as well at some point (but doubt I'll be going out of my way beyond that)
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The Lady Who Left
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The best love stories begin with a divorce. Trapped in an unhappy marriage, Lady Marigold...
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A Little Trickerie
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Born a vagabond, Tibb Ingleby has never had a roof of her own. Her mother has taught her that if...
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Spring Melt
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As a doctor’s wife in a thriving Adirondack village in the 1920s, Ella Devine seems to have an...
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