HNR Issue 104 (May 2023)
No Life for a Lady
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Historical fiction usually takes itself seriously, often very seriously. Readers seldom turn to it for light relief. No Life for a Lady is ...Read Review
A Botanist’s Guide to Flowers and Fatality (A Saffron Everleigh Mystery)
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Partnered with Dr. Michael Lee, a most obnoxious combination of golden-haired attractiveness and infuriation, Saffron Everleigh is a researcher at the University College ...Read Review
Night Flight to Paris (A Kate Rees WWII Novel)
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The novel opens in 1942 with American sharpshooter protagonist Kate Rees, code name Cowgirl, as a rifle/sniper instructor at the training center for ...Read Review
Heir of Uncertain Magic (Whimbrel House)
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This second book in Holmberg’s Whimbrel House series after Keeper of Enchanted Rooms, set in Victorian Boston and a nearby island, continues ...Read Review
The Lost Wife
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Sarah, a luckless woman in mid-19th century America, flees her abusive husband, leaving her daughter behind. She ends up in Minnesota, where ...Read Review
Hang the Moon
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The plot of this Prohibition-era tale borrows heavily from the real-life history of the Tudor court. The Elizabeth I figure is the spunky ...Read Review
The Whisperling
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Peggy Devona is a ‘whisperling’ from a long line of female whisperlings, a term for people who can communicate with ghosts. Her female ...Read Review
A Complicated Matter
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With the daily news reports indicating an increase of refugees from war-torn areas and a number of natural disasters, the publication of a ...Read Review
In Memoriam
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When war begins in 1914, Ellwood and Gaunt are seventeen, in their last year at their British boarding school. Almost immediately, their school newspaper ...Read Review
The Weight of Air
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All Mabel MacGinnis has ever known is life in the Manzo Brothers Circus. In 1911, as the strongest woman in Europe, she has quite ...Read Review
