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HNR Issue 104 (May 2023)

Snow & Poison

By Melissa de la Cruz - Published 2023

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De la Cruz’s lush retelling of “Snow White” is set in 17th-century Bavaria. The central figure is Sophie, the Duke of Bavaria’...Read Review

The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies

By Alison Goodman - Published 2023

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Twin sisters Julia and Augusta (Gus) Colebrook are as different as they could be, physically and temperamentally, and yet they are best friends ...Read Review

Shadows We Carry

By Meryl Ain - Published 2023

Genres:

Saga

Readers pick up the story of the Lubinski twins, Bronka and Johanna, in this sequel to The Takeaway Men. Now with the Second ...Read Review

The Highland Girls at War

By Helen Yendall - Published 2022

Genres:

Saga

Just when you think every possible aspect of UK life in WWII has been described in fiction, Helen Yendall introduces us to the ...Read Review

The Friday Night Club: A Novel of Artist Hilma af Klint and Her Creative Circle

By Alyson Richman - By M.J. Rose - By Sofia Lundberg - Published 2023

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

The Friday Night Club is absorbing and unique historical fiction. The novel features parallel storylines: the artistic and spiritual life of Swedish painter ...Read Review

Lady Rosamund and the Plague of Suitors (A Rosie and McBrae Regency Mystery)

By Barbara Monajem - Published 2022

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Widowed Lady Rosamund solves another murder with the help of Gilroy McBrae, a friend with an attraction she prefers to be in denial ...Read Review

Scarlet

By Genevieve Cogman - Published 2023

Genres:

Historical Fantasy

In 1793 England and France, vampires represent the aristocracy, but in France, peasant-trampling has led to revolution and the king’s execution. All Eleanor ...Read Review

Fifth Avenue Glamour Girl

By Renee Rosen - Published 2023

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New York City and its fashionable department store Saks Fifth Avenue is the setting for Fifth Avenue Glamour Girl. A chance encounter at ...Read Review

Silent Came the Monster

By Amy Hill Hearth - Published 2023

Genres:

Thriller

Hearth’s fictional treatment of an actual series of brutal shark attacks that terrified people along the popular beaches of New Jersey’s ...Read Review