The Light Over London / Julia Kelly / 290 pages

This is a story of two women in two time periods in England.  Cara Hargraves is an apprentice antiques dealer who is recently divorced.  She finds a diary in an antique chest written during World War II by a woman only listed as "Louise".  With the help of her new neighbor, Liam, Cara tires to track down the author of the diary so she can return it to her.  Louise Keene is a young woman living with her parents in a small village in England during World War II.  She works in a small grocery shop.  Her outgoing cousin, Kate, talks Louise into attending a dance two villages over.  Louise meets a dashing RAF pilot, Paul Bolton, at the dance.  Paul is soon courting Louise before he is deployed without warning.  Soon after Louise joins the women's auxiliary branch of the British army.  After training she is assigned to an anti-aircraft gun unit as a gunner girl in London.  Louise's diary records her love story with Paul until it abruptly stops before the war ends with no answers to what happens to Louise and Paul.

Beware this Boy / Maureen Jennings / 300 pages

This book is the second in a series of Tom Tyler mysteries by this author.  The story takes place in England during World War II.  Tom Tyler is a detective in Whitchurch, a small town in England.  He is called to investigate a fatal explosion in a munitions factory located in nearby Birmingham.  Tyler tries to determine if the explosion was accidental or sabotage.  The author does an excellent job making the reader feel as if they are in the story experiencing what it was like to live during the bombing of England during the war.  Tyler solves the case, but loose ends are not tied up.  Perhaps to live on in future books?