Rachel Savernake is the daughter of a judge, ridiculously wealthy, slightly bored, and smart as a whip. In other words, she has all the qualities of a Bright Young Thing ready to solve mysteries.
REVIEW: Death of a Bookseller
The author, Bernard J. Farmer, was a Metropolitan police officer himself and had a penchant for book collecting, so the hero of this novel reflects the author quite a bit.
REVIEW: Lady Caroline Lamb
Lady Caroline Lamb and Lord Byron were two celebrities, each proponents of the Romantic movements, swept up in a mad entanglement. Fraser’s biography teases out the many facets of a once one-sided story.
REVIEW: The Wager
David Grann, noted for his eye-opening exploration in the The Killers of The Flower Moon, has tackled the complex, mutinous Antarctic voyage to round Cape Horn. Captain Anson brought The Wager and five other armed ships down the coast of South America, around the point between Chile and Antarctica, to attack the Spanish interests on the Pacific side of the continent.
ACCENT: House with Good Bones
It’s a haunted house horror novel with Southern gothic tinges.