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Wobble to Death
It is a cold November morning in 1879 and a dozen ‘pedestrians’ in silk drawers and white tights gather at…
The Detective Wore Silk Drawers
The second of Peter Lovesey’s Victorian mysteries (now reissued) plunges Sergeant Cribb and Constable Thackery into the underworld of bare-knuckled…
The Night Birds
American history, the natives versus the new settlers, does not make pretty reading. The Night Birds is a fictional telling…
Folly du Jour
Paris, 21 May 1927. Commander Joe Sandilands DSO of Scotland Yard lands at Le Bourget airport seconds before Charles Lindbergh…
The Rowing Lesson
Harold Klein was a skinny Jewish South African kid with a hard-working general store proprietor father and a high-strung mother.…
God of Luck
God of Luck is a historical novel set against the backdrop of the trade in Chinese laborers, kidnapped and sold…
The Wandering Ghost
Corporal Jill Matthewson, the first woman ever assigned to 2nd Division Military Police in the demilitarized zone of mid-1970s South…
The Texicans
Aurelia Ruíz, a young woman of mixed Mexican/Anglo parentage, never felt at home in San Antonio despite returning there when…
Billy Boyle
Barely promoted to detective in his native Boston, William ‘Billy’ Boyd is sent to England to work with his ‘uncle’…
The Summer Snow
In the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, Carlos Tejada travels home to Granada to investigate his great-aunt’s death. Accompanying…
About our Reviews
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.
