HNR Issue 102 (November 2022)

Death on a Deadline (A Homefront News Mystery)

By Joyce St. Anthony - Published 2022

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

This ‘Homefront News Mystery’ is set in the small Midwestern town of Progress in 1942. Everyone in town is excited about the upcoming fair ...Read Review

The Secrets of Emberwild

By Stephenia H. McGee - Published 2022

Genres:

Inspirational Romance

Nora Fenton is confused and disturbed by her father’s deathbed words about their lives being built on a lie. However, she quickly ...Read Review

My Own Lightning

By Lauren Wolk - Published 2022

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Closure is an ever-moving target in Lauren Wolk’s sequel to Wolf Hollow. After a tragic death, eleven-year-old Annabelle struggles to fit into ...Read Review

Hester

By Laurie Lico Albanese - Published 2022

Genres:

In 1829, 19-year-old Isobel Gamble emigrates from Scotland to Salem, Massachusetts, with a tyrannical husband who’s ruined his apothecary practice through an opium ...Read Review

The Wild Hunt

By Emma Seckel - Published 2022

Genres:

On a remote Scottish island in 1949, Iain MacTavish and Leigh Welles have returned for different but equally tragic reasons. Iain has survived his ...Read Review

The Nurse’s Secret: A Thrilling Historical Novel of the Dark Side of Gilded Age New York City

By Amanda Skenandore - Published 2022

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Today, we expect and rely on nurses to be competent, trained professionals. And yet, it wasn’t always so. Prior to the late 19...Read Review

Lady Odelia’s Secret (Lady Helena Investigates)

By Jane Steen - Published 2022

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

It will aid the reader to have read Lady Helena Investigates, the first book introducing Lady Helena—sister to the Earl of Broadmere ...Read Review

Violet Yorke, Gilded Girl: Ghosts in the Closet

By Pj McIlvaine - Published 2022

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Violet Yorke is returning to her grandmother’s care after surviving the shipwreck of 1912. Since no one in the hospital believes she’s ...Read Review

Uncanny Times (Huntsmen, 1)

By Laura Anne Gilman - Published 2022

Genres:

Historical FantasyWestern

Gilman, best known for her popular Devil’s West historical fantasy series, which reimagined 19th-century American expansion in a nation where magic exists ...Read Review

The Poison Machine (A Hunt and Hooke Novel, 2)

By Robert J. Lloyd - Published 2022

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

London, 1679. Harry Hunt, assistant to Robert Hooke, the renowned scientist and architect, feels humiliated after the failure of one of his experiments demonstrated ...Read Review