HNR Issue 104 (May 2023)
Little Writer (Marmee’s Girls)
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In Little Writer, a retelling of Louisa May Alcott’s 1868 classic Little Women from Jo March’s first-person vantage, author Marina Hill reimagines ...Read Review
A Mistake of Murder (Jan Christopher Mysteries)
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This is the third cosy mystery to feature Jan Christopher—library assistant and part-time sleuth. It’s set in Chingford, London, at the ...Read Review
1887 The Day They Turned Off The Water
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In the early days of settlement, farmers in the Central Valley of California relied on irrigation from the Kings River for all their ...Read Review
Independence
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Priya and her sisters, Jamini and Deepa, have come of age as India is on the verge of its independence. Secure in her ...Read Review
Empire’s Edge (The Borderlands, 2)
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85 CE: following a successful campaign backing Tuathal Techtmar’s rightful claim as Hibernia’s High King, Centurion Faustus Valerianus returns to Isca Silurum. ...Read Review
The Anarchist’s Wife
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In the summer of 1927, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts committed one of the most nefarious of legal injustices in the history of the United ...Read Review
Emilienne: A Novel of Belle Époque Paris
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Émilienne revives the story of the late-19th century Parisian courtesan Émilienne D’Alençon. Desperate to escape her life of poverty in ...Read Review
Omens of Death (Basilica Diaries Medieval Mysteries)
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Kurti has chosen 1497 Rome in which to base the first of his Basilica Diaries Medieval Mysteries, which incorporate major historical events. In the ...Read Review
The Vanishing at Castle Moreau
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Inspirational RomanceMystery/Crime
A short prologue set in 1801 introduces a young girl visited by a woman with a scarred hand whom she knows isn’t a ...Read Review
A Bitter Remedy (The Oxford Mysteries, 1)
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In 1881 Oxford, women are forbidden admission to university, but they can attend lectures, if suitably chaperoned. At one such lecture, Welsh scholar Rhiannon (...Read Review
