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matrimony, murder, and black market mischief in post-war London

The Right Sort of Man by Allison Montclair

October 23, 2022 by tiny_bookbot Leave a Comment

CBR Bingo: Series (Sparks & Bainbridge Mysteries #1) I needed some new, lighter mysteries to get me through the dwindling days of early autumn. This popped up in my library recommendations, and since there’s a few of them to work through, I figured I’d give it a try. While there’s no shortage of books set during WWII, there are fewer that actually work through the aftermath of the war, which is its own very distinctive setting. The war is over and won, but London is still in tatters […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: Allison Montclair, cbr14bingo

tiny_bookbot's CBR14 Review No:29 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: Allison Montclair, cbr14bingo ·
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Romance-adjacent historical mystery

The Right Sort of Man by Allison Montclair

May 12, 2022 by RaRaGabor Leave a Comment

This is a delightful, breezy read, romance-adjacent without actually being romance. It’s the late 1940s in London. The War is over, the men are home, but rationing is still in effect, and there’s rubble from the Blitz everywhere. Iris Sparks and Gwendolyn Bainbridge work together to run a matchmaking agency: the Right Sort Marriage Bureau. Miss Sparks, we understand, was involved somehow in the covert part of the war effort, and Mrs. Bainbridge is a war widow with a young son. Both women are doing […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: Allison Montclair

RaRaGabor's CBR14 Review No:29 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: Allison Montclair ·
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