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A historical romance with ice smugglers (bingo)

Brazen and the Beast by Sarah Maclean

August 3, 2019 by Malin 2 Comments

#CBR11 Bingo: History Schmistory (set in the Victorian era) On the eve of her twenty-ninth birthday, Lady Henrietta “Hattie” Sedly, aided by her best friend Lady Eleonora (Nora), the daughter of a duke, is planning on going to an exclusive brothel in Covent Garden catering to women. She needs to lose her virginity, so her father will stop trying to pressure her into marriage. Firmly on the shelf, Hattie has discovered that despite a generous dowry, no one actually wants to marry her. She’s too tall, […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Romance Tagged With: Brazen and the Beast, cbr11, cbr11bingo, historical romance, history/schmistory, Malin, Sarah Maclean, smuggling, the Bareknuckle Bastards, Victorian

Malin's CBR11 Review No:60 · Genres: Fiction, History, Romance · Tags: Brazen and the Beast, cbr11, cbr11bingo, historical romance, history/schmistory, Malin, Sarah Maclean, smuggling, the Bareknuckle Bastards, Victorian ·
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The smuggler and the war hero – a marriage of convenience

June 7, 2018 by Malin Leave a Comment

Christopher “Kit” Ellingsworth was given an Earldom for his bravery during the Napoleonic wars. It doesn’t really bring in any money, though, so Kit is pretty much penniless and mounting up debts living the life of a libertine upon his return to London, everything to forget his time in battle. Hence he is surprised when he is told his mentor wishes to leave him a substantial fortune…as long as he finds a wife within the next month. It doesn’t leave him very much time to […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Romance Tagged With: #CBR10, Counting on the Countess, Eva Leigh, historical romance, London Underground, Malin, Regency, smuggling

Malin's CBR10 Review No:43 · Genres: Fiction, History, Romance · Tags: #CBR10, Counting on the Countess, Eva Leigh, historical romance, London Underground, Malin, Regency, smuggling ·
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A trip down the Yangtze …. with a corpse!

March 17, 2014 by Valyruh Leave a Comment

  The final volume of the “Red Princess” trilogy, Dragon Bones had me captured from the get-go. The author introduces us to the mighty Yangtze River in China by portraying the voyage of a corpse as it is swept, crashing and smashing and sometimes floating its way through the Three Gorges and the massive dam of that name still under construction, until fetching up on the outskirts of a city, setting the stage for an investigation by our intrepid couple Detective Liu Hulan and her […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: China, cult, history, smuggling, Yangtze River

Valyruh's CBR6 Review No:22 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: China, cult, history, smuggling, Yangtze River ·
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Chinese/U.S. Relations Viewed Through the Lens of a Murder Mystery

February 13, 2014 by Valyruh Leave a Comment

Flower Net is the first of a trilogy by this author, whose Snow Flower and the Secret Fan blew me away when I read it several years ago. This book travels back and forth between the U.S. and China in 1997, and is an incisive political commentary couched in a splendid if somewhat gruesome murder mystery. Liu Hulan is a beautiful young Chinese detective who has had to fight hard to achieve her respected status, but has to contend with the fact that is a […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: bear bile, China, murder, smuggling, triad

Valyruh's CBR6 Review No:14 · Genres: Uncategorized · Tags: bear bile, China, murder, smuggling, triad ·
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