HNR Issue 106 (November 2023)

Murder by Invitation Only (A Phyllida Bright Mystery)

By Colleen Cambridge - Published 2023

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

The third book in the Phyllida Bright series, Murder by Invitation Only is a historical mystery set in one of those English country ...Read Review

What Rosa Brought

By Jacob Sager Weinstein - Published 2023

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

In 1938, three-year-old Rosa lives in Vienna with her parents and grandmother. Her life is simple and happy until the Nazis come. The shop ...Read Review

Homicide in Chicago (Merlin Richards 2)

By Edward Marston - Published 2023

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeWestern

In this second in the series, moving from Arizona and his close association with his hero Frank Lloyd Wright, Merlin Richards moves to ...Read Review

Crook Manifesto

By Colson Whitehead - Published 2023

Genres:

Literary

Second in a trilogy, Crook Manifesto is a brisk ride that tears through 1970s Harlem until each projected act of violence erupts mid-paragraph, ...Read Review

The Fascination

By Essie Fox - Published 2023

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In this gothic novel set in Victorian London, Essie Fox takes readers back in time to explore the fascination with disabilities of all ...Read Review

The Wings of Poppy Pendleton

By Melanie Dobson - Published 2023

Genres:

InspirationalMystery/Crime

One awful morning in 1907, young Poppy Pendleton goes missing, apparently taken from her bed in her wealthy parents’ castle on Koster Isle in ...Read Review

The Winter List

By S.G. MacLean - Published 2023

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

This sixth in the popular Damian Seeker series will attract readers fond of the historical crime genre. We are in York in the ...Read Review

1777: The Year of Destiny

By Edward Cuddy - Published 2023

Genres:

AdventureMilitary

In this, his first novel, former lawyer Cuddy offers a fictionalized account of the year 1777 during the War for American Independence. At the ...Read Review

Immortalised to Death: The Dunston Burnett Trilogy

By Lyn Squire - Published 2023

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Jolly good! A Dickensian mystery about Dickens—or, more precisely, about his death. Charles Dickens died abruptly in 1870 while he was writing his ...Read Review

The Things We’ll Never Have

By Hilary Hauck - Published 2023

Genres:

In this novel set in mid-1960s London, we are introduced to the protagonist, Everleigh, about to have her fondest wish come true. ...Read Review