Mailbox Monday, created by Marcia at To Be Continued, formerly The Printed Page, has a permanent home at its own blog.
To check out what everyone has received over the last week, visit the blog and check out the links. Leave yours too.
Also, each week, Leslie, Vicki, and I will share the Books that Caught Our Eye from everyone’s weekly links.
Here’s what I received:
Lost Kin by Steve Anderson for review with TLC Book Tours in May.
Occupied Munich, 1946: Irina, a Cossack refugee, confesses to murdering a GI, but American captain Harry Kaspar doesn’t buy it. As Harry scours the devastated city for the truth, it leads him to his long-lost German brother, Max, who returned to Hitler’s Germany before the war.
Max has a questionable past, and he needs Harry for the cause that could redeem him: rescuing Irina’s stranded clan of Cossacks who have been disowned by the Allies and are now being hunted by Soviet death squads—the cold-blooded upshot of a callous postwar policy.
As a harsh winter brews, the Soviets close in and the Cold War looms, Harry and Max desperately plan for a risky last-ditch rescue on a remote stretch of the German-Czech border. A mysterious visitor from Max’s darkest days shadows them. Everyone is suspect, including Harry’s lover, Sabine, and Munich detective Hartmut Dietz—both of whom have pledged to help. But before the Kaspar brothers can save the innocent victims of peace, grave secrets and the deep contempt sown during the war threaten to damn them all.
The Secrets of Flight by Maggie Leffler for a TLC Book Tour in May.
Estranged from her family since just after World War II, Mary Browning has spent her entire adult life hiding from her past. Now eighty-seven years old and a widow, she is still haunted by secrets and fading memories of the family she left behind. Her one outlet is the writing group she’s presided over for a decade, though she’s never written a word herself. When a new member walks in—a fifteen-year-old girl who reminds her so much of her beloved sister Sarah—Mary is certain fate delivered Elyse Strickler to her for a reason.
Mary hires the serious-eyed teenager to type her story about a daring female pilot who, during World War II, left home for the sky and gambled everything for her dreams—including her own identity.
As they begin to unravel the web of Mary’s past, Mary and Elyse form an unlikely friendship. Together they discover it’s never too late for second chances and that sometimes forgiveness is all it takes for life to take flight in the most unexpected ways.
Undercover: An Austen Noir by Cat Gardiner for review from the author.
It’s November 1952 in New York City where mysterious denizens linger in smoky bars and darkened alleys. The second Red Scare is dredging up a new swarm of “Commies”; “duck and cover” are the lingo of the day. And hard-boiled private eyes aren’t always men.
One audacious dame, Elizabeth Bennet, is undercover in a case of suspected murder: her best friend, Mary King, has been missing for eighteen months. Determined to find the man she believes did the girl in—one George Wickham—her investigation collides with an enigmatic bachelor, Fitzwilliam Darcy and his socialite sister, Georgiana.
Darcy is loaded, from a high-society family with all the money and the right connections for a future in politics. Elizabeth’s a career girl from the wrong side of the East River, but the sexual chemistry between them cannot be denied. She is focused on finding Slick Wick and he is hell-bent on stopping her investigation. But why? He’s hiding something, but she’ll use almost every weapon in her H-bomb arsenal to get his lips flapping.
Murder, kidnapping, and a brainy broad with a body for sin are just enough to break Darcy’s stone-cold reserve.
What did you receive?
Doesn’t Undercover look fantastic? Happy reading!
The Secrets of Flights sounds wonderful! Right up my WWII reading too! Enjoy all the books and the rest of your week!
I think it’s because there’s a link in it; it’s spams those and I have to manually approve them.
Oh…I see.
Sorry about that. I will have to try to remember that.
Don’t worry if it doesn’t show up. I approve them when I can get to it. Might take me a couple days.
Oh, I’m so glad to hear it, Elizabeth
Wait… Austen noir? I would read that! I need to see if I can find it. Very cool!
It’s on sale…you should pick it up.
I’ll have to look into it, thanks for the tip!
The Secrets of Flight caught my eye. Happy May and happy reading!
Thanks, Lucy.
Wow, all your books look fantastic! Enjoy!
Thank you. I hope you got some goodies too
Happy May, Serena! Lost KIn is new to me. I hope you’ll have time to read your new books soon.
I hope I can read them all soon…so many at once!
The only one I’m familiar with is The Secrets of Flight. I hope they’re all winners!
I hope it’s as good as it sounds