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A Friendship That Surpassed Time and Boundaries - an Editorial Review of "These Sacred Lands"
Book Blurb: In the 1870s, the bond of friendship between a Lakota warrior, Shadow Hawk, and a U.S. cavalryman, Joshua Mackenzie, is...
DK Marley
Aug 11, 20226 min read
A Notorious 1926 Mid-Western Murder - an Editorial Review of "Face Down in Rising Sun"
Book Blurb: Clara Olson was a small-town girl from rural Crawford County, Wisconsin who longed for more than the experiences of growing...
DK Marley
Aug 10, 20224 min read
Passion and Peril in Alternate Victorian England - an Editorial Review of "The Name I Chose"
Book Blurb: A story of passion and peril in alternative Victorian England. It's the late 19th century. Bold inventions usher in a new...
DK Marley
Aug 9, 20229 min read
The Power of Poetry to Survive War - an Editorial Review of "War Sonnets"
Book Blurb: In the sweltering jungles of the Philippines, a young American Soldier and a Japanese fighter use the power of poetry to...
DK Marley
Aug 4, 20225 min read
World War and Suffering Through a Child's Eyes - an Editorial Review of "The Last Daughter"
Book Blurb: A compelling novel based on a remarkable true story in World War II. In the early dawn hours of September 8, 1939,...
DK Marley
Aug 3, 20226 min read
An American Indian's Search for Belonging - an Editorial Review of "The Lonely Spirit"
Book Blurb: The Lonely Spirit is a short story collection sprawled across the Old West. As the only half-Comanche U.S. Marshal, L.S....
DK Marley
Aug 1, 20225 min read
An American Actor's Literary Life - an Editorial Review of "Where the Possums' Dance..."
Book Blurb: Actor/writer/painter Brandon R Maggart seems to have written Where Possums Dance and the Willow Sings for readers whose...
DK Marley
Jul 30, 202210 min read
A Struggle for Faith for a Young Innocent Girl - an Editorial Review of "No Safe Haven"
Book Blurb: Tillie Pierce is a thoughtful, fifteen-year-old young woman, living with her family in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. It’s 1863,...
DK Marley
Jul 27, 20225 min read
The First Peace Treaty of an Ancient World - an Editorial Review of "A Hittite and a Shaman"
Book Blurb: An outbreak of war is imminent between Ancient Egypt and the Hittite kingdom Nefertari, the queen of Ramses II, receives a...
DK Marley
Jul 25, 20225 min read
An Era Where Music Enlightened the World - an Editorial Review of "Joy is not Complicated"
Book Blurb: On a trip to Paris as children, my subjects would meet Camille Saint-Saëns and become friends, and again on the eve of an...
DK Marley
Jul 23, 20227 min read
The Dreyfus Affair in Belle Epoque Paris - an Editorial Review of "Bitter Draughts"
Book Blurb: Paris 1898—the fin de siècle, a turbulent era when passions run as high as prejudice. In the midst of the infamous Dreyfus...
DK Marley
Jul 22, 20225 min read
Loyalties Divided in the Midst of War - an Editorial Review of "Tennessee Yankee"
Book Blurb: The civil war split the loyalties of many families. Sometimes it split the loyalties of a single person... War was in the...
DK Marley
Jul 21, 20225 min read
A Southern Belle Searching for Her Lost Love - an Editorial Review of "Conecuh"
Book Blurb: Bronze Medal winner, 2020 eLit Literary Awards, Historical Fiction. Emily Rose roams through a country ravaged by war, a...
DK Marley
Jul 20, 20224 min read
The Rebirth of a Medieval Serial Killer - an Editorial Review of "Floats the Dark Shadow"
Book Blurb: WARNING: This book contains sensitive subject matter concerning Gille de Rais, a medieval serial killer and child predator...
DK Marley
Jul 18, 20227 min read
Another Winner from Rachel R. Heil - an Editorial Review of "Leningrad: the People's Hero"
Book Blurb: As the war on the Eastern Front turns in the favor of the Soviets, Leningrad remains locked in a fight for survival. Having...
DK Marley
Jul 14, 20228 min read
What Jane Austen's Emma Didn't Know - an Editorial Review of "My Dearest Miss Fairfax"
Book Blurb: From Jeanette Watts, a new Regency-set historical fiction novel following a lesser-known character from one of history’s...
DK Marley
Jul 13, 20224 min read
Another Sensational Jax Diamond Mystery - an Editorial Review of "Framed"
Book Blurb: It’s a deadly game of who’s who, and who isn’t. A B.R.A.G. Medallion Honoree Things get pretty sticky for PI Jax Diamond...
DK Marley
Jul 13, 20224 min read
Bombings of the Past Mirror Today's Anarchy - an Editorial Review of "Vengeance For All Things"
Book Blurb: An unlikely detective duo fights to stop an anarchist plot to bomb the 1916 Preparedness Day Parade in San Francisco. A year...
DK Marley
Jul 12, 20227 min read
To Catch a Nazi Spy in Canada - an Editorial Review of "Codename: Mermaid"
Book Blurb: FBI agent Ben Blanchard is angry at God for allowing his wife to die. He’s tasked with investigating a Nazi sabotage...
DK Marley
Jul 12, 20225 min read
Where "Persuasion" Leaves Off - an Editorial Review of "The Value of an Anne Elliot"
Book Blurb: After Anne Elliot marries Captain Frederick Wentworth, what happens next? Will her second chance at love survive war,...
DK Marley
Jul 10, 20225 min read