Category: 1995

A VENETIAN RECKONING by DONNA LEON

1995 / Crime / Europe & the Middle East / Fiction / Italy / Reviews / Thriller Leave a comment

I had owned up here, publicly, in a review a couple of weeks ago about having only recently discovered the wonderful Commissario Brunetti series, written by the talented Donna Leon.  Having got addicted, I am now binge-reading this series of gripping detective novels, set in Venice.  Catching up on the …

A MONSTROUS REGIMENT OF WOMEN by LAURIE R. KING

1995 / Europe & the Middle East / Fiction / Reviews / UK 1 comment

The second in the delightful Mary Russell novels, “A Monstrous Regiment of Women,” sees our intrepid, eminently likeable young blue-stocking of a heroine turn 2, and take over her considerable inheritance from her hated aunt. Mary’s life is as busy as ever. She is finishing her Oxford thesis, and preparing …