HNR Issue 105 (August 2023)
The Isolated Séance (An Irregular Detective mystery, 1)
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London, 1895. Twenty-six-year-old Timothy Badger was a street urchin of twelve when Sherlock Holmes began using him as his spy. The Baker Street Irregulars ...Read Review
The Square of Sevens
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A girl called Red writes a memoir. It begins in 1730 with her hard, nomadic life as the child of a gypsy fortune teller. ...Read Review
Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
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No mud, no lotus. This aphorism captures the essence of Lisa See’s latest novel: pithy, yet entertaining; thought-provoking, yet down-to-earth; dark, yet ...Read Review
Queen of Exiles
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Hayti (Haiti) became a sovereign nation in 1804, free of slavery, after defeating Napoleon’s forces. The formerly enslaved now rule the new nation. ...Read Review
Dulcinea
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15th-16th century Spain. Dolça Llull Prat, the young, artistic daughter of a Barcelona aristocrat, lives a carefree life of luxury until ...Read Review
The Black Crescent
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Set in 1950s Morocco, amid growing resistance to French rule, The Black Crescent is a novel about family ties, societal change and contrast ...Read Review
Lucky Red
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Orphan Bridget Shaughnessy is a prostitute in Dodge City, Kansas, in 1877. After burying her Pa out on the plains, she rolls into Dodge ...Read Review
The Golden Doves
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Building on the success of her Lilac Girls trilogy, Kelly’s The Golden Doves takes the reader into the turbulent decade following the ...Read Review
Ride a Fast Horse (A Captain Tom Skinner Western)
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In this cinematic western, part of a series set in Arizona in 1889, the plot moves as fast as the horses. Kevin Warren’s ...Read Review
Queen of the Union
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This novel, Book 2 of the Queen of the West trilogy, is set in Cincinnati, Ohio, on the brink of the Civil War in 1855. ...Read Review
