Review: The Mitford Affair - Marie Benedict - January 2023  I don't normally enjoy reading historical fiction, but earlier this year I discovered that I love reading historical fiction based on real people and events, a bit like biographical fiction. An author who I discovered that writes a lot on this topic is Marie Benedict and I have a handful of hers to read. When it comes to the Mitford sisters, the only one I knew about because she was a writer was Nancy Mitford. I never really took much notice of her sisters, but after reading The Mitford Affair based loosely on real events, the family was an interesting bunch and for their time, the sisters were ahead of themselves. The book starts at a party which is being hosted by the eldest of the sisters Diana Mitford - Diana was married to Bryan Guiness - heir to the Guiness Beer Fortune. She ends up divorcing him for a man she calls "M" aka Oswald Mosely. Oswald is about Facis...

I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the TO TRUST IN WHAT WE CANNOT SEE by Dennis Mansfield Blog Tour hosted by  Rockstar Book Tours . Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway! About The Book: Title:  TO TRUST IN WHAT WE CANNOT SEE Author:  Dennis Mansfield Pub. Date: April 21, 2020 Publisher:  iuniverse Inc Pages:  228 Formats:  Hardcover, Paperback, eBook Find it:  Goodreads , Amazon ,  Kindle , B&N , iBooks , Kobo , TBD , Bookshop.or g To Trust in What We Cannot See is the first book in Dennis Mansfield's series of time-traveling, historical thrillers. The story builds a genre-bending, thought provoking plot around a little known historical fact: During the month of January 1913, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, and Josip Tito all lived in Vienna, Austria, near each other, and all regularly frequented the same coffee shop, Cafe Central. At the time, these five you...

  Review: The Colossus - Ranjini Iyer - December 2014 Are you a fan of the Stephanie Plum Series or Darynda Jone's Charley Davidson series ? Do you enjoy your mystery novels with a hint of light-heartedness and not too deep that you can often get a bit confused or on the dark side of life ? That's what I found when I was reading The Colossus as we meet Maxine aka Max Rosen who works by owning her own catering business - a real different career choice than those she grew up around in her family as we discover that her family's background was science. One day, while tidying up , Max comes across a coded document that she discover's was her fathers and links back to pharmecuticals that were used back in the Nazi era for medical experiments , even more so the drugs came from Ancient India. I quite liked this part as the author had connected all three different time periods together quite well as often some authors find it really difficult to join them toget...

  Synopsis: The Last Witness - Jerry Amernic - October 2014 The year is 2039, and Jack Fisher is the last living survivor of the Holocaust. Set in a world that is abysmally complacent about events of the last century, Jack is a 100-year-old man whose worst memories took place before he was 5. His story hearkens back to the Jewish ghetto of his birth and to Auschwitz where, as a little boy, he had to fend for himself to survive after losing his family. Jack becomes the central figure in a missing-person investigation when his granddaughter suddenly disappears. While assisting police, he finds himself in danger and must reach into the darkest corners of his memory to come out alive. Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23573053-the-last-witness?from_search=true   Guest Post on why I wrote about the Holocaust by Jerry Amernic for Paula at The Phantom Paragrapher. Why did I choose to write a novel about the Holocaust and wh...