HNR Issue 104 (May 2023)
Eight Strings
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Like the puppet plays that form the center of this novel, DeRosia imbues a melodramatic plot with layer upon layer of social and ...Read Review
The Bride Wore White (Burning Cove, California, 7)
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When the life of Prudence Ryland, aka Madame Ariadne, takes a strange turn, she calls Luther Pell, nightclub owner and investigator in Burning ...Read Review
The Torso at Highgate Cemetery and Other Sherlock Holmes Stories
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With the expiry of his copyright, Conan Doyle’s style, plots and characters may be plundered by anyone. My hackles twitched slightly when ...Read Review
A Wren’s Wartime Christmas
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In December 1941, Mary and fellow Wrens Iris and Sally are posted to the British Royal Navy Base at Scapa Flow, Orkney, to join ...Read Review
The Fourth Enemy
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Following up Perry’s longer-running Pitt series, this sixth in the Daniel Pitt series opens on a cozy domestic scene of father-daughter and ...Read Review
A Rose and a Promise
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Following the main character, Cadi, as the Second World War continues through the spring of 1944, initially there are many threads simmering just outside ...Read Review
The Red Balcony
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In March 1933, a Jewish resident of Palestine is murdered for political motives. Ivor Castle, a British Jew who has come to Palestine against ...Read Review
The Dead Men (Fiskardo’s War, 2)
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The Dead Men follows directly from the author’s excellent first novel, The Silver Wolf, which introduced Jack Fiskardo. The novel opens in ...Read Review
Prize Women
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Who will be the lucky woman to win a millionaire’s fortune by having the most children in ten years? That was the ...Read Review
The Tapestry of Grace
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This is a heartwarming Christian novel set in Alexandertol, Kansas, in 1895. Augusta Dyck, a widow and mother who is also the town’s ...Read Review
