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nanciq
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Posts: 5
Joined: January 2017
Currently reading: Blind Justice, Anne Perry
Preferred HF: victorian murder mysteries
Location: Newmarket, Ontario, Canada

Newbie :)

Post by nanciq » Thu January 12th, 2017, 5:27 pm

Hi

Just joined today. I'm in Ontario, Canada and enjoy Anne Perry, Victoria Thompson and Maureen Jennings. I love reading cozies of any era as well.

In addition to reading, I enjoy writing and genealogy.

Nanci

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Misfit
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Posts: 9581
Joined: August 2008
Location: Seattle, WA

Re: Newbie :)

Post by Misfit » Fri January 13th, 2017, 12:35 am

Hi and welcome.
At home with a good book and the cat...
...is the only place I want to be

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Lisa
Bibliophile
Posts: 1153
Joined: August 2012
Favourite HF book: Here Be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman
Preferred HF: Any time period/location. Timeslip, usually prefer female POV. Also love Gothic melodrama.
Location: Northeast Scotland

Re: Newbie :)

Post by Lisa » Fri January 13th, 2017, 11:14 am

Welcome to the forum, and enjoy!

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nanciq
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Posts: 5
Joined: January 2017
Currently reading: Blind Justice, Anne Perry
Preferred HF: victorian murder mysteries
Location: Newmarket, Ontario, Canada

Re: Newbie :)

Post by nanciq » Fri January 13th, 2017, 1:04 pm

Hi. Thanks for the welcome. :)

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Madeleine
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Posts: 5860
Joined: August 2008
Currently reading: "Mania" by L J Ross
Preferred HF: Plantagenets, Victorian, crime, dual time-frame
Location: Essex/London

Re: Newbie :)

Post by Madeleine » Fri January 13th, 2017, 8:11 pm

Hi and welcome.
Currently reading "Mania" by L J Ross

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Vanessa
Bibliomaniac
Posts: 4378
Joined: August 2008
Currently reading: The Farm at the Edge of the World by Sarah Vaughan
Interest in HF: The first historical novel I read was Katherine by Anya Seton and this sparked off my interest in this genre.
Favourite HF book: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell!
Preferred HF: Any
Location: North Yorkshire, UK

Re: Newbie :)

Post by Vanessa » Fri January 13th, 2017, 8:55 pm

Hi Nanci, welcome to the group. Hope you enjoy it here. I like Anne Perry's books.
currently reading: My Books on Goodreads

Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind

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MLE (Emily Cotton)
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Posts: 3566
Joined: August 2008
Interest in HF: started in childhood with the classics, which, IMHO are HF even if they were contemporary when written.
Favourite HF book: Prince of Foxes, by Samuel Shellabarger
Preferred HF: Currently prefer 1600 and earlier, but I'll read anything that keeps me turning the page.
Location: California Bay Area

Re: Newbie :)

Post by MLE (Emily Cotton) » Fri January 13th, 2017, 9:51 pm

Welcome Nancy. Have you read M Louisa Locke's Victorian San Francisco mystery series?

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nanciq
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Posts: 5
Joined: January 2017
Currently reading: Blind Justice, Anne Perry
Preferred HF: victorian murder mysteries
Location: Newmarket, Ontario, Canada

Re: Newbie :)

Post by nanciq » Sat January 14th, 2017, 3:04 am

MLE (Emily Cotton) wrote:Welcome Nancy. Have you read M Louisa Locke's Victorian San Francisco mystery series?
I'm not familiar with her. I'll have to look her up.

Thanks

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