HNR Issue 104 (May 2023)
A Spoonful of Spying (Alice Éclair, Spy Extraordinaire!)
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This exuberant romp of a spy thriller is set against the backdrop of a fictionalised grand exhibition like the one which took place ...Read Review
Murder on the Salsette (Ocean Liner Mysteries, 6)
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May 1909, and George Dillman and Genevieve Masefield embark upon their sixth ocean-going crime adventure in the series. Having been married at the end ...Read Review
A Disappearance in Fiji
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Akal Singh is a Punjabi Sikh, demoted to work in Fiji, in 1914, for having made a fatal error in judgement in Hong Kong, ...Read Review
A New Path to Follow
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This family saga follows the four Barsham children, whose lives are thrown off course at the start of the First World War in 1914. ...Read Review
The Warlock Effect
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A young German Jew fleeing the Nazis, Ludvik plays card tricks to lure English boys away from tormenting him. Thus Louis Warlock the ...Read Review
The Long March Home
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Jimmy “Prop” Propfield, Hank Wright, and Billy Crockett are three teenage friends growing up around Mobile, Alabama at the end of the 1930s. ...Read Review
Blackbeard’s Treasure
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AdventureChildren/Young AdultNautical
In 1718, eleven-year-old Abigail lives a cosseted, if rather lonely, life as a plantation owner’s daughter in the Caribbean. Secretly, her best friend ...Read Review
The Lodger
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London in the hot summer of 1919. Grace Armstrong is still struggling in the depths of bereavement following the death of her fiancé, Robert ...Read Review
The House of Whispers
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Rome 1938. From the first time she meets Dante Cavallera, piano teacher Eva Valenti is fascinated by the good-looking widower, father of her newest ...Read Review
The Hidden Life of Aster Kelly
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Model and aspiring fashion designer Aster Kelly takes on an enviable job—being Lauren Bacall’s stand-in for designer-to-the-stars Fernando Tivoli. While learning ...Read Review