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April's Books Completed and Reviewed
In Farleigh Field: A Novel of World War II
by Rhys Bowen - Set during World War II, this is almost a cozy mystery, as a couple of the local young people try to find out if there are traitors in their local neighborhood. (Read my full review HERE.)
The Trees Will Clap
by Bonnie Mae Evans - A novel about a little girl growing up during the 1960s in the rural Delmarva peninsula. Lacey has a lot of changes in her life when her mother marries and takes Lacey to live with her instead of with her beloved grandparents. (I wrote my review for The Old Schoolhouse Magazine, so it will be posted here after it has appeared on their website.)
The Secret Bridge by Amy Le Feuvre - I just finished this charming novel about a young lady whose circumstances caused her to marry in haste but keep her identity a secret from her new family until her husband returns from the Navy. (My full review will appear this week.)
All in Good Time (The Gilded Legacy)
by Maureen Lang - Dessa has a dream to provide help to the unfortunate women in frontier Denver, but she's had to get a loan from banker Henry Hawkins in order to buy the house she needs. Henry is very skeptical that she'll succeed or be able to make her loan payments, but is drawn to Dessa anyway.
All the Blue of Heaven
by Virginia Carmichael - A young woman returns to 1900s Chicago with her little niece after being injured and losing her painting studio in the earthquake and fire in San Francisco.
The Chapel Car Bride
by Judith Miller - Just barely started this novel about a young woman who is accompanying her father as a traveling chaplain on the railroad and in a poor mining community.
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Shepherd, Potter, Spy and the Star Namer by Peggy Miracle Consolver - This is an engaging coming-of-age story set in ancient Canaan, as the Hebrew people are coming to conquer the land promised to them. A young Gibeonite boy named Keshub and his family must decide how they will respond to the Hebrews and their powerful God. (Read my full review HERE.)
by Peggy Miracle Consolver - This is an engaging coming-of-age story set in ancient Canaan, as the Hebrew people are coming to conquer the land promised to them. A young Gibeonite boy named Keshub and his family must decide how they will respond to the Hebrews and their powerful God. (Read my full review HERE.)The un-walled village of Gibeon still stood vulnerable to attack. Their water source, one of the most reliable in Canaan, bubbled up surrounded by valuable farming land. Gibeon could not hope to escape attack if the Hebrews invaded. How could his family and Gibeon possibly survive an attack?
In Farleigh Field: A Novel of World War II
by Rhys Bowen - Set during World War II, this is almost a cozy mystery, as a couple of the local young people try to find out if there are traitors in their local neighborhood. (Read my full review HERE.)"Because my boss is away this weekend, and I can't reach him. I have been following a lead that started with a dead German, and I'm standing in the middle of the bloody Somerset countryside. And I thought you might like to know." Ben heard himself shouting.
The Trees Will Clap
by Bonnie Mae Evans - A novel about a little girl growing up during the 1960s in the rural Delmarva peninsula. Lacey has a lot of changes in her life when her mother marries and takes Lacey to live with her instead of with her beloved grandparents. (I wrote my review for The Old Schoolhouse Magazine, so it will be posted here after it has appeared on their website.)To be completely honest (although I would never dare to say it out loud, for fear of hurting Khaki Dad's feelings), I was sorta attached to my old name. I knew who people were talking to the first time when they said it, and I didn't get caught off guard quite as much with that name as I did with my new one.
The Secret Bridge by Amy Le Feuvre - I just finished this charming novel about a young lady whose circumstances caused her to marry in haste but keep her identity a secret from her new family until her husband returns from the Navy. (My full review will appear this week.)
"It is another secret that I must keep for the present," she resolved. "My husband must be the first to know of it; but I am afraid my knowledge will only complicate matters."
During April I started reading:
All in Good Time (The Gilded Legacy)
by Maureen Lang - Dessa has a dream to provide help to the unfortunate women in frontier Denver, but she's had to get a loan from banker Henry Hawkins in order to buy the house she needs. Henry is very skeptical that she'll succeed or be able to make her loan payments, but is drawn to Dessa anyway.Unfortunately, with the girls and Mariadela busy in the kitchen, that left Dessa alone in the parlor with Mr. Hawkins. The very person she'd hoped to avoid speaking to, now that he knew he wasn't alone in his doubts about her plans.
All the Blue of Heaven
by Virginia Carmichael - A young woman returns to 1900s Chicago with her little niece after being injured and losing her painting studio in the earthquake and fire in San Francisco.She knew they would be expected to attend Sunday services with her mother. She had planned on it, picked out which gloves to wear and how to wear her lace wrap so that her scars would not be so visible.
The Chapel Car Bride
by Judith Miller - Just barely started this novel about a young woman who is accompanying her father as a traveling chaplain on the railroad and in a poor mining community.Before Hope joined her father on the chapel car, the small organ that sat in a corner near the pulpit had remained silent, and her father had relied upon a gramophone to assist with the musical portion of the service. After one of their first services together, he said he thought folks came to hear her organ playing even more than to hear his sermon.
by R.J. Koreto
by Katherine Neville - I was introduced to this combination of thriller, mystery, and historical novel through a book club years ago and loved it. I've re-read it several times. (Read a full review 
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Classic mysteries are a good example of books I re-read. Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot are fictional detectives that entertain me even if I remember how the mystery was solved.
