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Probably my Favorite Beverly Jenkins book!

To Catch a Raven by Beverly Jenkins

August 23, 2022 by LB Leave a Comment

Gosh, this book is a delight. I love Beverly Jenkins’ books more with each one I read, and this one is especially good. Raven is part of a family of grifters who are very skilled at what they do. When her mom, Hazel’s ex returns to town with Pinkerton detective Ruth Welch, she gets coerced into going to South Carolina to pose as a domestic and find a stolen copy of the Declaration of Independence. While playing the role of domestic, Raven is also playing […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Romance Tagged With: Beverly Jenkins, Black romance, historical romance, post civil war, Reconstruction Era, Romance, to catch a Raven

LB's CBR14 Review No:10 · Genres: Fiction, History, Romance · Tags: Beverly Jenkins, Black romance, historical romance, post civil war, Reconstruction Era, Romance, to catch a Raven ·
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Achieving New Heights of Incompetency

October 20, 2015 by Quorren Leave a Comment

It’s starting to bug that every true crime book now has to be the “crime of the century” or, in this case, “the kidnapping that changed America”.  Want to know what big change this historic kidnapping caused?  The crime of kidnapping was changed from a misdemeanor to a felony.  That’s it!  That was pretty much its only legacy; no one that bungled this case even learned their lesson.  A bunch of people failed spectacularly here and the only outcome was that kidnapping now had a […]

Filed Under: Mystery, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Carrie Hagen, post civil war, Quorren, true crime, We Is Got Him

Quorren's CBR7 Review No:54 · Genres: Mystery, Non-Fiction · Tags: Carrie Hagen, post civil war, Quorren, true crime, We Is Got Him ·
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