Allison & Busby
A Parliament of Spies
This fourth installment featuring Abbess Hildegard is set during the tumultuous times of the reign of Richard II in the…
Angels at War
Editors' choice
Rarely, in all my years of reviewing for the HNS, have I come across such a masterly historical romance with…
Blood on the Line
Set in Victorian England, the eighth in Edward Marston’s Railway Detective series opens with the wily Jeremy Oxley – conman,…
The Dakota Cipher
France, 1800. In Ethan Gage’s third adventure, our hero – lover, adventurer, gambler, sharpshooter and man of unexpected talents –…
The World Beyond
Rachael Bristow is the daughter of a British colonel stationed in Lucknow as the story opens in 1855. Irritated by…
The Kirilov Star
Beginning in November 1920, this novel follows the life and struggles of Lydia Kirilova, who leaves Russia as a small…
Promises to Keep
It is 1944. We are in rural Cornwall during the weeks preceding and the months immediately following D-Day. Most local…
The Rose Garden
Canadian author Susanna Kearsley’s time-travel books have always enthralled me, and The Rose Garden is no exception. Its heroine, Eva…
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Editors' choice
The year is 1986, and widower Henry Lee sees items from World War II discovered intact in a local hotel.…
Alice’s Girls
A World War II British land girls’ story by one of the script writers of the excellent House of Elliot,…
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