Review by Bookpleasures

Here's a link to a review of the novel by Dr. Wesley Britton at Bookpleasures"

"You don't have to be a Sherlock Holmes aficionado to enjoy The Strange Case of Eliza Doolittle although Doyle fans will get to see many references to events and characters from the Holmes canon updated into a sort of sequel to the original stories.  So, on many levels, the novel is a lot of fun. I enjoyed this book more than many  a title I've read of late. A perfect diversion from the weird world" of 2020.

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And here's an obligatory pic of the author with a copy of the book hot off the presses. It has that new book smell.

Ta Da! The Cover.

 I really have been delinquent. Here is the cover to the first of the strange cases (which I love), by the extremely talented Jennifer Do, as well as the link to its Amazon page.

Review: The Lost History of Dreams

 If you like to be on solid ground, Ms. Waldherr’s book may not be for you. But if you like unreliable narrators and the tension they create when you know they’re unreliable, she has nested one unreliable narrator inside another, so that you never quite no who you’re dealing with. And the narrators so reflect the people whose stories they’re narrating that it becomes a game of fun-house mirrors. And some of the most important characters may be ghosts, whether real or imagined by two people trapped in the past.

Robert starts with a simple task, His cousin, famous poet Hugh de Bonne, has died, and wishes to be laid by the side of his wife Ada in the stained-glass shrine he built for. There’s a strange codicil in his will, however, which Ada’s niece Isabelle refuses to bow to—and she’s the only one with a key to the shrine. Her reason is bound up in the history of Hugh and Ada, which she proposes to relate to Robert in a mock-Scheherazade style.  But instead of making things clearer, it merely draws Robert deeper into a net of doubts.

All is laid bare at the end, and I’ll leave you to decide whether it’s a satisfying denouement. But this Gothic-soaked joy-ride is worth your time one way or the other.