HNR Issue 110 (November 2024)

The Drowned: A Strafford and Quirke Murder Mystery

By John Banville - Published 2024

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

County Wicklow, 1950s: in a field near the coast, the reclusive Denton Wymes finds a flashily expensive car with its engine running, the ...Read Review

Waltraut

By Gabriele Goldstone - Published 2024

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Set in early 1960s Canada, Waltraut is the story of the ten-year-old daughter of two post-World War II immigrants. Waltraut lives for weekends ...Read Review

Teach the Children to Pray

By Rebecca Harwick - Published 2024

Genres:

Josefine Dorn lives with her parents in Ellwangen, a 17th-century town, part of what will one day be Germany. When the accusations of ...Read Review

The Burning of Rosemont Abbey

By Naomi Stephens - Published 2024

Genres:

Inspirational RomanceMystery/Crime

The Burning of Rosemont Abbey, following in the well-traveled footsteps of Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple, is a mystery set in a quaint ...Read Review

The Heart in Winter

By Kevin Barry - Published 2024

Genres:

Western

The setting for Kevin Barry’s small but mighty new novel is Butte, Montana in the 1890s. It’s a booming mining town ...Read Review

Murder at Glenloch Hill (A Stella and Lyndy Mystery)

By Clara McKenna - Published 2024

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In 1906, Kentucky heiress Stella Lyndhurst and her husband British Viscount Lyndy Lyndhurst travel to Scotland. They want to reconnect with distant cousins, the ...Read Review

Paradises Lost (The Passage Through Time, 1)

By Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt - Published 2024

Genres:

Literary

This is the first volume of an ambitious proposed eight-volume history of the world in novel form “as if Yuval Noah Harari had ...Read Review

Rough Pages (Evander Mills, 3)

By Lev AC Rosen - Published 2024

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Gay private investigator Evander “Andy” Mills returns, briefly, to the Lavender House in the latest installment in this gripping, queer mystery series. The ...Read Review

This Ravenous Fate

By Hayley Dennings - Published 2024

Genres:

Children/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy

It’s 1926 in Harlem. Eighteen-year-olds Layla Quinn and Elise Saint were once best friends, until Layla was turned into a reaper. Layla blames ...Read Review

To the Bone

By Alena Bruzas - Published 2024

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Ellis, a teenage indentured servant living in the Virginia settlement called Jamestown by its English colonizers, narrates this story set in the “Starving ...Read Review