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HNR Issue 104 (May 2023)

The Lost Wife

By Susanna Moore - Published 2023

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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

Jean-Luc & Anna Lise: A Novel of the Napoleonic Wars

By A. G. Cullen - Published 2021

Genres:

Epic Military

Jean-Luc and Anna Lise is an epic novel of the Napoleonic Wars seen through the eyes of Jean-Luc, a soldier in Napoleon’s ...Read Review

The Trackers

By Charles Frazier - Published 2023

Genres:

Literary Western

Directionless young artist Val finds deliverance from the ravages of the Great Depression in an assignment to paint a New Deal mural in ...Read Review

Mastering the Art of French Murder (An American In Paris Mystery)

By Colleen Cambridge - Published 2023

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

This first book in a mystery series by Colleen Cambridge features Tabitha Knight, the fictional best friend of Julia Child in 1949 Paris. Tabitha, ...Read Review

The Tumbling Girl (Variety Palace Mysteries)

By Bridget Walsh - Published 2023

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

London, 1876: in the first of Walsh’s Variety Palace mysteries, Minnie Ward, a plainspoken magician’s assistant turned music hall scriptwriter, vows to ...Read Review

The Poisoner’s Ring (Rip Through Time Novels, 2)

By Kelley Armstrong - Published 2023

Genres:

Mystery/Crime Time-slip

While on a visit to Edinburgh to be with her dying grandmother, Canadian homicide detective Mallory Atkinson is attacked. She wakens in the ...Read Review

Last House Before the Mountain

By Gillian Davidson (trans.) - By Monika Helfer - Published 2023

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In 1914, Maria and Josef live with their children at the end of a valley in westernmost Austria. Their forefathers, poor itinerant laborers, arrived ...Read Review

In the Service of the Emperor: The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1931–1945

By N. S. Nash - Published 2022

Genres:

Military Nonfiction

WW2 was fought as two parallel and largely unrelated wars; the German war and the Japanese war. The Japanese war is usually regarded ...Read Review

The Berlin Gambit

By David O'Donnell - Published 2023

Genres:

Mystery/Crime Thriller

Berlin, 1942. Police Chief Investigator Rolf Schneider takes no interest in politics. All he cares about is catching criminals – until he is tasked with ...Read Review