Touchstone
The Counterfeit Guest
This, the second in the Mary Finch series (the first reviewed in HNR 44) sees our redoubtable heroine immersed in…
East of the Sun
The start of this novel, set in 1928, finds Viva Hollaway, a young woman in her mid-twenties, trying to…
Oscar Wilde and the Ring of Death
This is the second in a series featuring Oscar Wilde as detective. The plot starts as a game at a…
Here Was a Man: A Novel of Sir Walter Raleigh and Elizabeth l
Here Was a Man, by bestselling author Norah Lofts, has been reissued, and like all of Lofts’s works, is…
Twilight of Avalon
Editors' choice
In Arthurian fiction, queens tend to fall into two groups: the powerful and the powerless. Anna Elliott places Isolde among…
Fallen Skies
Still in her teens in 1920, Lily Valance is embarking on a promising stage career as a singer. She is…
Oscar Wilde And A Game Called Murder
In this mystery, set in 1892, Oscar Wilde and friends—including Bram Stoker and Arthur Conan Doyle—indulge in an after-dinner game.…
Mr Darcy’s Dream
Phoebe Hawkins, niece to Mr. Darcy, is twenty years old, handsome, and well-born, and she possesses a fortune of fifty…
The King’s Grace
Editors' choice
Grace Plantagenet is a bastard child of King Edward IV and, after his death, finds her way to the household…
The King’s Pleasure
Originally published in 1969, Norah Lofts’s novel about the life of Katherine of Aragon is being reissued again for the…
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