HNR Issue 104 (May 2023)
Lost in Paris
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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
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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
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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)
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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