HNR Issue 110 (November 2024)
Mademoiselle Eiffel
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Paris, late 1800s. The titular character is Claire, the oldest child of engineer and architect Gustave Eiffel. Her mother dies when she is ...Read Review
The Irish Girl
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Opening in Galway, Western Ireland in May 1886, this novel follows the story of Mary Agnes Coyne as she emigrates to America. It follows ...Read Review
The Trade Off
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A novel opening with the stock market crash of 1929 and first chapter set in 1926 has suspense built in. Chapters begin with the date ...Read Review
Battle Annie: The Queen of Hell’s Kitchen
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In 1890, during a strike against the New York Central Railroad, Annie Walsh, as head gopher of the Battle Row Ladies Social and Athletic ...Read Review
Santo Domingo Stakeout (A Cuban Noir Novel, 2)
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In Santo Domingo in 1965, Henry Gore, who has run the gamut from US military, to private investigator, to private consultant to Juan Bosch, ...Read Review
Violin of Hope
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A Jewish father plays the violin for his family. One evening Nazis enter the family’s home and steal the violin. For years ...Read Review
Montezuma’s Tantrum (Aldana Libros)
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Emperor Montezuma is in a bad mood. He is unhappy with everybody and everything. Nobody can make him feel better, until some clever ...Read Review
This Cursed House
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Sandeen’s Southern gothic horror, set near New Orleans in 1962, vividly swirls with ghosts and Black history, while acknowledging how some passing families ...Read Review
Mona Lisa’s Daughter
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In 16th-century Florence, Leonardo da Vinci meets Lisa del Giocondo, whose husband has commissioned a portrait of her. They begin a close relationship ...Read Review
Echoes of Us
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This novel is told through dual timelines, illuminating a lesser-known side of the home front during World War II. In the modern day, ...Read Review
