Battle of Waterloo, Book Review, Historical, NetGalley, Romance, Russia, Series, St. Martin's Press

The Princess and the Rogue (Bow Street Bachelors #3) by Kate Bateman

Bow Street agent Sebastien Wolff, Earl of Mowbray, doesn’t believe in love—until a passionate kiss with a beautiful stranger in a brothel forces him to reconsider. When the mysterious woman is linked to an intrigue involving a missing Russian princess, however, Seb realizes her air of innocence was too good to be true.Princess Anastasia Denisova… Continue reading The Princess and the Rogue (Bow Street Bachelors #3) by Kate Bateman

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Book Review, St. Martin's Press, Women's Fiction

Been There, Married That by Gigi LeVangie

When he changes the locks, she changes the rules. Agnes Murphy Nash is the perfect Hollywood wife – she has the right friends, the right clothes, and even a side career of her own as a writer. Her husband Trevor is a bigshot producer, and from the outside, it looks like they’re living a picture-perfect… Continue reading Been There, Married That by Gigi LeVangie

Book Review, Historical Fiction, Holocaust, Series, St. Martin's Press, WWII

Cilka’s Journey (The Tattooist of Auschwitz #2) by Heather Morris

Her beauty saved her — and condemned her.Cilka is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp in 1942, where the commandant immediately notices how beautiful she is. Forcibly separated from the other women prisoners, Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly taken, equals survival. When the war is over and… Continue reading Cilka’s Journey (The Tattooist of Auschwitz #2) by Heather Morris

Book Review, Comedy, NetGalley, St. Martin's Press, Suspense, Thriller, Women's Fiction

What Rose Forgot by Nevada Barr

Rose Dennis wakes up in a hospital gown, her brain in a fog, only to discover that she's been committed to an Alzheimer's Unit in a nursing home. With no memory of how she ended up in this position, Rose is sure that something is very wrong. When she overhears one of the administrators saying… Continue reading What Rose Forgot by Nevada Barr

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Book Review, Contemporary, NetGalley, Romance, Series, St. Martin's Press, Suspense, Thriller

Darkest Night (Sons of Broad #1) by Tara Thomas

SHE THOUGHT SHE’D LOST HIM FOREVERTilly Brock has learned—the hard way—how to take care of herself. Once a pillar of Charleston society, her family lost everything in the wake of a shocking scandal. And then Tilly lost the only boy she ever loved.BUT NOW THAT HE’S BACK IN HER LIFEKeaton Benedict is Charleston’s most notorious… Continue reading Darkest Night (Sons of Broad #1) by Tara Thomas

Book Review, Crime, Detective Fiction, Mystery, NetGalley, Police Procedural, Series, St. Martin's Press, Thriller

The Long Call (Two Rivers #1) by Ann Cleeves

In North Devon, where two rivers converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his estranged father’s funeral takes place. On the day Matthew left the strict evangelical community he grew up in, he lost his family too. Now, as he turns and walks away again, he receives a… Continue reading The Long Call (Two Rivers #1) by Ann Cleeves

Book Review, Espionage, NetGalley, Political, Series, St. Martin's Press, Thriller

The Russian (Rob Tacoma #1) by Ben Coes

As the brutal Russian mafia becomes the most powerful and deadly criminal enterprise in the U.S., it’s up to covert operative Rob Tacoma to fight back, in a new series by New York Times bestseller Ben Coes. Ruthless, clever, and unbelievably violent, the Russian mafia has rapidly taken over the criminal underworld in the U.S.… Continue reading The Russian (Rob Tacoma #1) by Ben Coes

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Book Review, NetGalley, Psychological, St. Martin's Press, Thriller

The Escape Room by Megan Goldin

Vincent, Jules, Sylvie, and Sam are ruthlessly ambitious high-flyers working in the lucrative world of Wall Street finance where deception and intimidation thrive. Getting rich is all that matters, and they'll do anything to reach the top.When they are ordered to participate in a corporate team-building exercise that requires them to escape from a locked… Continue reading The Escape Room by Megan Goldin

Right Sort of Man
Blog Tour, Book Review, Detective Fiction, Mystery, NetGalley, Police Procedural, Series, St. Martin's Press

The Right Sort of Man (Sparks & Bainbridge Mystery #1) by Allison Montclair

In London, 1946, the two women who recently started The Right Sort Marriage Bureau find their new livelihood endangered when one client is arrested for the murder of another. While the police are convinced they have their man, Miss Sparks and Mrs. Bainbridge at the bureau are not. To clear the name of who they… Continue reading The Right Sort of Man (Sparks & Bainbridge Mystery #1) by Allison Montclair

Book Review, Gould, Florence, NetGalley, Nonfiction, St. Martin's Press, WWI, WWII

A Dangerous Woman: The Life of Florence Gould by Susan Ronald

Florence understood instinctively that beauty, as well as money, was power; and she had both in abundance. Florence Gould was an intelligent, conniving, self-centered, savvy business woman, but most of all she was a survivor.  She survived the San Francisco earthquake and fire as a child, a major flood in France, World War I and… Continue reading A Dangerous Woman: The Life of Florence Gould by Susan Ronald