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Last Twilight in Paris: A Novel
by Pam Jenoff
Elizabeth@Silver's Reviews - Pam Jenoff fans will love it (2/4/2025)
We meet Louise who delivered packages to prisoners of war during World War II and Helaine who was a prisoner in the Levitan department store taken over by the Nazis that housed goods stolen from Jewish homes.

The prisoners had to sort through all of the goods, and the Germanmore
The Girls of the Glimmer Factory: A Novel
by Jennifer Coburn
Elizabeth@Silver's Reviews - Well researched and heartbreaking (1/31/2025)
We meet Hilde and Hannah.

Hilde's husband was killed in the war and is now working for a film crew who will be making a propaganda film about Theresienstadt - a Nazi camp that spouts a wonderful, peaceful city for the Jewish people and where they are treated well.

In reality,more
The Memory Dress
by Jade Beer
Elizabeth@Silver'sReviews - For Princess Diana fans - you will love it (11/20/2024)
A 2024 FAVORITE!!

We meet Madeline both past and present.

In the past, we meet Madeline as she starts work at her dream job of being a dressmaker. William, who also works there, figures out that she is very talented.

Present day, we see Madeline living in an apartment where nomore
The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern: A Novel
by Lynda Cohen Loigman
A gem and a (10/9/2024)
Can that really be Irving living in the same retirement complex as Augusta?

Irving was Augusta’s first love, but he broke her heart and married another.

Augusta worked in her father‘s pharmacy, and Irving was the delivery boy.

Sixty years later even though they loved eachmore
The Hitchcock Hotel
by Stephanie Wrobel
Elizabeth@Silver's Reviews - Slow at first, but ends up very good (9/25/2024)
College friends meet at the Hitchcock Hotel owned by their friend Alfred.

They haven’t seen each other for sixteen years.

Why did Alfred invite them?

They were never really close, but most have a secret from college and/or their life since college.

Will these secrets come out?

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The Night We Lost Him: A Novel
by Laura Dave
A good story, but confusing (9/20/2024)
Dad would never commit suicide.

He was young, healthy, happy, and successful.

We have to find out if someone was with him the night he slipped and fell to his death on the rocks that he could walk over in his sleep.

Sam and Nora, who have been estranged, go on a searchmore
Gone for Good: Detective Annalisa Vega #1
by Joanna Schaffhausen
Elizabeth@Silver's Reviews - excellent thriller that kept me guessing and has a satisfying, surprise ending. (8/17/2024)
Annalisa Vega was assigned to The Lovelorn Killer case that re-surfaced after 20 years.

The killer's newest victim, Grace, is a member of a group called The Grave Diggers that researches cold cases.

Grace also is the member who had the most information on each of Themore
The Incorrigibles: A Novel
by Meredith Jaeger
Elizabeth@Silver'sReviews - MARVELOUS!! (5/23/2024)
We meet Annie in 1890 - an Irish immigrant who worked as a housemaid in a wealthy household.

She was tricked by one of the male members of the family she worked for. He took a ring out of his aunt’s jewelry box while visiting, gave it to Annie, and denied giving Annie themore
The Incorrigibles: A Novel
by Meredith Jaeger
Elizabeth@Silver's Reviews - Marvelous read you won't be able to put down (5/22/2024)
We meet Annie in 1890 - an Irish immigrant who worked as a housemaid in a wealthy household.

She was tricked by one of the male members of the family she worked for. He took a ring out of his aunt’s jewelry box while visiting, gave it to Annie, and denied giving Annie themore
Daughter of Mine: A Novel
by Megan Miranda
Elizabeth@Silver's Reviews - You won't be able to put this book down. (4/12/2024)
Ohhhh..this is a good one!!

Hazel’s father died, and in addition to the shock of his death was the shock that he left the family home ONLY to her and not her brothers. That caused a good deal of bad feelings.

While she was home for the funeral more shocking things happened.

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The House on Biscayne Bay
by Chanel Cleeton
Elizabeth@Silver's Reviews - A marvelous Gothic-style read with undercurrents of menace. (4/9/2024)
How could a mansion with such a beautiful name - Marbrisa - be the scene of murders?

Peacocks screaming and dying and then construction workers and guests found dead.

1918 - Robert and Anna came from New York to Florida after the Great War, built an outlandish mansion, but itmore
The Girls We Sent Away: A Novel
by Meagan Church
Heartwrenching, fabulous, tissues-needed book (3/13/2024)
It’s the 1960s.

What became of girls who found themselves pregnant and with no support?

We meet Lorraine Delford, an only child, a girl who was going to be valedictorian of her senior class, a girl who wanted to be an astronaut, a girl who did not want to be the typicalmore
The Trouble with You: A Novel
by Ellen Feldman
Elizabeth@Silver's Reviews - A satisfying ending - historical fiction fans will enjoy (2/22/2024)
It is post World War II, and we meet Fanny Fabricant, her husband, Max, and their daughter Chloe. Fanny was the lucky one because her husband came back from the war. She wasn’t lucky for too long, though, because her life changed one night.

We follow Fanny as she goes tomore
Radiant Heat
by Sarah-Jane Collins
Elizabeth@Silver's Reviews - A bit slow, but turns out good (1/28/2024)
Escaping a raging Australian bush fire wasn’t the only horrendous thing Allison had to endure in her life.

Something else from her past was waiting.

When she felt it was safe to leave her home, she found a dead woman sitting in her driveway with Allison‘s address written on amore
Northwoods: A Novel
by Amy Pease
Elizabeth@Silver's Reviews - A bit slow, but turns out good (1/12/2024)
A lot is going on in this small lakeside resort town which has a woman sheriff and only two other police officers - one being her son Eli who has PTSD from his time in Afghanistan.

Eli only has the job because of his mother, and he tries to medicate himself with alcohol.

Whenmore
Only the Beautiful
by Susan Meissner
Elizabeth@Silver's Reviews - WOW!! READ IT!! (12/14/2023)
WOW - another beautiful read by Susan Meissner!!

After Rosanne's parents were killed in an accident, she moved into the house of the vineyard owners where her parents worked.

Celine and Truman Calvert were always good to Rosanne and her family, but Celine said Roseanne couldn’more
The Mystery Writer: A Novel
by Sulari Gentill
Elizabeth@Silver's Reviews - A slow start, but turned out good (12/12/2023)
Theo left her university studies in Australia because she didn’t want to be an attorney like her brother. She wanted to be an author.

Her brother Gus was surprised when she showed up on his doorstep in Kansas because they were told they had to follow their grandfather‘smore
The Roaring Days of Zora Lily: A Novel
by Noelle Salazar
Elizabeth @Silver's Reviews - FANTASTIC - DON'T MISS IT (8/24/2023)
Who is Zora Lily Hough?

She is a character you will fall in love with as you follow her through her days helping her family cope with poverty and tragedy and as she works as a day nanny for the Harringtons as she waits for her dreams to come true.

Zora and her friend, Rose,more
Never Have I Ever
by Joshilyn Jackson
Elizabeth @Silver's Reviews - Keeps you on the edge of your seat (8/5/2023)
A secret from her past and someone who happens to show up that may ruin everything.

During their regular, monthly book club meeting a knock on the door brings a new member who as the evening wears on definitely isn't welcome.

Roux knows something about Amy and innocentlymore
The Almost Sisters
by Joshilyn Jackson
Elizabeth @Silver's Reviews - Southern Living and adorable characters (8/5/2023)
A successful career, an ailing grandmother, a one-night stand, and a Southern family with untold secrets.

Leia had always been close to her grandmother, but did she really know her grandmother? After finding out her grandmother has been suffering with dementia for over 10more

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