I've read some books in Louise Penny's Gamache series that I liked. She is a good writer. I'm just not that interested in the small village milieu of most of them. I'm currently reading The Summer Queen by Elizabeth Chadwick. I wanted to read it because I was interested in Eleanor of Aquitaine o...
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Re The Boleyn King--I suspected as much which is why I never started it. I was recently disappointed by a mystery called The Samaritan's Secret by Matt Rees. I was expecting a great deal of cultural information about the Samaritans. There was a bit of it, but what I really got was nasty politics ...
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This is Shomeret posting her most recent read which is historical as is frequently the case. It's The Fire Kimono by Laura Joh Rowland. I usually take these 17th-18th century Japanese historical mysteries out of the library, but I really liked the title and cover so I bought it. It's turning out...
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