HNR Issue 104 (May 2023)

Lost in Paris

By Betty Webb - Published 2023

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In this first in a series set in the early 1920s, Zoe Barlow’s wealthy Alabama family casts her out, viewing her forbidden ...Read Review

The Echo of Old Books

By Barbara Davis - Published 2023

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Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1984.  Ashlyn Greer, a rare book dealer, has a special talent.  She can sometimes feel the emotional echoes of a book’...Read Review

Above Discovery

By Jennifer Falkner - Published 2023

Genres:

Short Stories

The stories in this collection vary considerably. A few are contemporary; most are historical, taking place in ancient Greece, Victorian England, Shakespeare’s ...Read Review

Usurper (The Wulfbury Chronicles, 1)

By P. W. Finch - Published 2023

Genres:

Adventure

I felt I wanted to read this novel with my eyes shut: the violence of men beating the hell out of other men ...Read Review

Who Cries for the Lost (Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery)

By C.S. Harris - Published 2023

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

The body of a young man found in the Thames is being examined in Paul Gibson’s surgery. It bears signs of a ...Read Review

Dust Child

By Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai - Published 2023

Genres:

Literary

Released in March 2023, Dust Child marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Americans pulling out of Viet Nam. Part of the novel is set ...Read Review

Sparrow

By James Hynes - Published 2023

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Somewhere in Britannia, in the dying days of the Roman Empire, an equally decaying man recalls his youth. He names himself Jacob, but ...Read Review

Loyalty

By Lisa Scottoline - Published 2023

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This is an action-packed, technicolor novel about the origins of the Mafia in Sicily. Lisa Scottoline has done extensive research to present a ...Read Review

The Marriage: The Mahlers in New York

By Joseph Horowitz - Published 2023

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Horowitz’s novel should appeal both to musical aficionados and those who know Gustav Mahler only from his music. We get a backstage ...Read Review

Sacrifice (The Hebraica Trilogy)

By Christine Jordan - Published 2022

Genres:

Thriller

Gloucester, 1168: Zev is in love with Arlette, but she is promised to a man of higher status in the city’s close-knit Jewish ...Read Review