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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 …

O JERUSALEM by LAURIE R.KING

1999 / Europe & the Middle East / Fiction / Reviews / UK Leave a comment

Reviewing such an exciting, action-packed novel as “O Jerusalem”, the second (chronologically speaking) in the Mary Russell series, the period detail is such that one wants to use words like derring-do and possibly even swashbuckling, to describe the utterly delightful young heroine. In this story, Mary Russell is only 19, …