HNR Issue 100 (May 2022)

When She Dreams (Burning Cove, California)

By Amanda Quick - Published 2022

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Passion, danger, intrigue, and murder return to glamorous 1930s Burning Cove, California, in this sure-handed winner. By now, Quick has perfected her formula. ...Read Review

Things Past Telling

By Sheila Williams - Published 2022

Genres:

EpicLiterary

Momma Grace could be as old as 112; no one knows her real age for sure, but there is no question that she has ...Read Review

Matilda’s Secret (The Inheritance)

By Corina Bomann - Published 2022

Genres:

Saga

Having lost both her parents, 17-year-old Matilda is all alone in the world. Then she gets a shocking surprise when a countess, Agneta ...Read Review

A Rip Through Time

By Kelley Armstrong - Published 2022

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeTime-slip

Armstrong’s novel requires the suspension of disbelief: a woman nearly murdered and left for dead wakes up 150 years earlier. Just before she’...Read Review

Death and Hard Cider (A Benjamin January Mystery, 19)

By Barbara Hambly - Published 2022

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Benjamin January, musician, surgeon, and free man of colour, lives in New Orleans in 1840. Political tensions run high when Henry Clay of the ...Read Review

The Book Woman’s Daughter (Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, 2)

By Kim Michele Richardson - Published 2022

Genres:

Richardson delivers another beautiful, heartbreaking, yet uplifting tale of the scrappy women of Appalachia. In 1953, sixteen-year-old Honey Lovett watches the sheriff haul her ...Read Review

The Blue Diamond (The Daughter of Sherlock Holmes Mysteries, 6)

By Leonard Goldberg - Published 2022

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In London in November 1917, Dr. Watson, with his son and daughter-in-law, continues the detective work of Sherlock Holmes. Watson is older now and ...Read Review

Spring of Hope (A Gaslight Mystery, 4)

By Cora Harrison - Published 2022

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

A letter from Wilkie Collins as he lay dying in 1889 recalls an incident from 30 years before. It’s the time of the Great ...Read Review

The Mermaid in the Millpond

By Lucy Strange - By Pam Smy (illus.) - Published 2022

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

‘Sometimes the only way to save yourself is to save someone else’ is the theme that flows through this mystical story set during ...Read Review

One-Shot Harry

By Gary Phillips - Published 2022

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Harry Ingram knows the “rules” for a Black photographer in Los Angeles in 1963: cover events and people of your own color and get ...Read Review