A Sister’s Courage by Molly Green

January 29, 2020

While I enjoyed the premise of A Sister’s Courage, the first in Molly Green’s Victory Sisters series, I had to continually remind myself how young Raine Linfoot was. The heroine of the book may have been a pilot during World War II, shuttling planes...

The Lost Vintage by Ann Mah

August 12, 2019

In recent months, I’ve been talking about women and World War II with several other women, including my mother. We’ve commented about the large number of women’s stories about the war years. My personal theory? The men’s accounts of war and...

The Mausoleum by David Mark

June 02, 2019

David Mark’s standalone thriller, The Mausoleum, is a difficult book to discuss. The flap doesn’t do it justice, but to reveal too much more will give away the story. At the same time, it was also a difficult book to read, told in alternating chapters by...

Book Chat – The Beantown Girls by Jane Healey

February 13, 2019

This wasn’t the first book I intended to mention in a book chat. In fact, I haven’t even seen The Beantown Girls by Jane Healey. I ordered it for the library yesterday, and I recommended it to my mother. It actually came out at the beginning...

Money in the Morgue by Ngaio Marsh and Stella Duffy

December 10, 2018

How many of you remember that Ngaio Marsh’s Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn trained as a diplomat before joining Scotland Yard? If you do, it won’t surprise you that he’s working undercover in World War II in New Zealand. Money in the Morgue...