HNR Issue 110 (November 2024)
Murder in Highbury (An Emma Knightley Mystery)
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This novel introduces a new amateur sleuth, Jane Austen’s exasperatingly lovable Emma Woodhouse – now Mrs. Knightley. When she and her friend Harriet ...Read Review
The Specimens
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Set from 1819 to 1829, this grim-dark historical weaves fiction through the historical events of the Burke and Hare murder spree, spotlighting some of the ...Read Review
Nate the Texas Story (Nate Champion Duology)
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Round Rock, Texas, 1871. Nathan Champion may be the fourth-oldest of former sheriff Jack Champion’s ten offspring, but he is the most memorable. ...Read Review
Rise of the Spider (The Web of the Spider, 1)
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Book 1 of The Web of the Spider series follows Rolf von Heusen (12) in a small town in Bavaria starting in 1929. Rolf’s mother ...Read Review
Night Climbing
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In the spring of 1936, murmurings across Europe indicate the potential for another conflict with Adolf Hitler’s rise to power. Local communities see ...Read Review
Cherry Blossoms in Winter
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During the post-WWII occupation of Japan, young American sailors and soldiers enjoy vices and good times in devastated Tokyo as its citizens suffer ...Read Review
Polostan (Bomb Light, 1)
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In the 1920s, workers’ rights and socialism were ideas taking root in many places, including the United States. Polostan depicts an American family ...Read Review
A Memory of Murder (Jan Christopher Mysteries)
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It’s April 1973, and assistant librarian Jan Christopher is date-stamping the books local Chingford students are borrowing, then intercepting decorators laden with ladders, ...Read Review
The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern
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The distance between 1922 and 1987 in terms of women’s lives and careers is the backdrop of Lynda Cohen Loigman’s romance between two ...Read Review
Foreign Seed
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An American diplomat stationed in Nanking, China, sets off to find and retrieve a missing fellow countryman in this elegantly told tale of ...Read Review
