Goodreads|Amazon|Author Website Release date: June 13, 2017 Publisher: Riverhead Books Genre: Historical Fiction Blurb: A heart-breaking, heart-warming historical novel of love and survival inspired by real resistance workers during World War II Austria, and the mysterious love letter that connects generations of Jewish families. For readers of The Nightingale, Lilac Girls, and Sarah's Key. Austria, … Continue reading The Lost Letter by Jillian Cantor
Tag: Historical Fiction
Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan
Goodreads|Amazon Release date: May 1, 2017 Publisher: Lake Union Genre: Historical Fiction Blurb: Based on the true story of a forgotten hero during one of history’s darkest hours. Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He’s a normal Italian teenager—obsessed with music, food, and girls—but his days of innocence are … Continue reading Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan
The Butlins Girls by Elaine Everest
Goodreads|Amazon Release date: May 4, 2017 Publisher: Pan Genre: Historical fiction Blurb: They escaped their pasts, for the adventure of a lifetime . . . 'Molly Missons gazed around in awe. So this was Butlin's. Whitewashed buildings, bordered by rhododendrons, gave a cheerful feeling to a world still recovering from six years of war. The … Continue reading The Butlins Girls by Elaine Everest
The Night the Lights Went Out by Karen White
Goodreads|Amazon|Author Website Release date: April 11, 2017 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Genre: Southern Fiction, Historical, Mystery Blurb: From the New York Times bestselling author of Flight Patterns comes a stunning new novel about a young single mother who discovers that the nature of friendship is never what it seems.... Recently divorced, Merilee Talbot Dunlap moves … Continue reading The Night the Lights Went Out by Karen White
When We Danced at the End of the Pier by Sandy Taylor
Goodreads|Amazon US|Amazon UK Release date: March 31, 2017 Publisher: Bookouture Genre: Historical Fiction Blurb: Brighton 1930: Maureen O’Connell is a carefree girl, but her family is on the brink of tragedy, war is looming and life will never be the same again. Jack and Nelson have always been dear friends to Maureen. Despite their different … Continue reading When We Danced at the End of the Pier by Sandy Taylor
A Dangerous Crossing by Rachel Rhys
Goodreads|Amazon UK Release date: March 23, 2017 Publisher: Doubleday Genre: Historical Fiction Blurb: Sparkling cocktails, poisonous secrets ... 1939, Europe on the brink of war. Lily Shepherd leaves England on an ocean liner for Australia, escaping her life of drudgery for new horizons. She is instantly seduced by the world onboard: cocktails, black-tie balls and … Continue reading A Dangerous Crossing by Rachel Rhys
In Farleigh Field by Rhys Bowen
Goodreads|Amazon Release date: March 1, 2017 Publisher: Lake Union Genre: Historical Fiction, Mystery Blurb: World War II comes to Farleigh Place, the ancestral home of Lord Westerham and his five daughters, when a soldier with a failed parachute falls to his death on the estate. After his uniform and possessions raise suspicions, MI5 operative and … Continue reading In Farleigh Field by Rhys Bowen
In the Shadow of Lakecrest by Elizabeth Blackwell
Goodreads|Amazon|Author Website Release date: February 1, 2017 Publisher: Lake Union Genre: Historical Fiction, Mystery Blurb: The year is 1928. Kate Moore is looking for a way out of the poverty and violence of her childhood. When a chance encounter on a transatlantic ocean liner brings her face-to-face with the handsome heir to a Chicago fortune, … Continue reading In the Shadow of Lakecrest by Elizabeth Blackwell
Little Deaths by Emma Flint
Goodreads|Amazon|Author Website Release date: January 17, 2017 Publisher: Hachette Books Genre: Mystery, Historical Fiction Blurb: It's 1965 in a tight-knit working-class neighborhood in Queens, New York, and Ruth Malone--a single mother who works long hours as a cocktail waitress--wakes to discover her two small children, Frankie Jr. and Cindy, have gone missing. Later that day, … Continue reading Little Deaths by Emma Flint
Say Goodbye For Now by Catherine Ryan Hyde
Goodreads|Amazon|Author Website Release date: December 13, 2016 Publisher: Lake Union Genre: Historical Fiction Blurb: On an isolated Texas ranch, Dr. Lucy cares for abandoned animals. The solitude allows her to avoid the people and places that remind her of the past. Not that any of the townsfolk care. In 1959, no one is interested in … Continue reading Say Goodbye For Now by Catherine Ryan Hyde
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