HNR Issue 104 (May 2023)
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
Jean-Luc & Anna Lise: A Novel of the Napoleonic Wars
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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
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
Half Notes From Berlin
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It is spring 1933 in Berlin. Adolf Hitler and the Nazis have just risen to power. Changes are coming. Bad ones. Particularly for the ...Read Review