Thriller
Another Small Kingdom
Boston, 1802. Lawyer Macleod is a man full of hate, a dangerous man who finds himself caught up in a…
A Study in Revenge
1893, Portland, Maine. Deputy Marshal Archie Lean is called to investigate a burned body and strange occult symbols in an…
Vengeance
Benjamin Black, pseudonym for Irish writer John Banville, has written number five in a series of crime noir novels featuring…
Fires of London
Francis Bacon is a flamer, for sure, in more ways than one. Because of severe asthma, he can’t serve on…
Hurricane Hole
Hurricane Hole is a WW2 thriller set in the Bahamas. Since this was not a very active theatre of war,…
The Messenger Bird
his is a race-against-time mystery story in which three children have only a few days to solve a series of…
The Bay of Foxes
Dawit walks the streets of 1978 Paris, his stomach aching from hunger and his mind full of thoughts of his…
The Diviners
Editors' choice
Seventeen-year-old Evie has been sent away from Ohio to live in New York City with her eccentric uncle – and…
Isabel’s Skin
Book valuer David Morris is summoned to Belmont Hall to value the collection of the late Lord Buff-Orpington, a specialist…
The Return of Moriarty
Considering the current popularity in historical fiction of revisiting classic stories and characters, the decision to reprint John Gardner’s 1974…
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Over the last 15 years The Historical Novels Review (the society’s print magazine for our members) has published reviews of some 12,000 historical fiction books. We plan to upload them all and make them searchable here.
