HNR Issue 110 (November 2024)

Everything Glittered

By Robin Talley - Published 2024

Genres:

Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime

Journey back to Washington, DC in 1927 to help Gertrude solve a chilling murder. Alongside her best friends, Milly and Clara, Gertrude is determined ...Read Review

Diamonds in the Rough (The White City Novellas)

By Victoria Vassari - Published 2023

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Rita is known as “Little Egypt,” although she has never been out of Chicago.  She is a dancer at the 1893 Columbian Exposition, sometimes ...Read Review

The Muse of Maiden Lane (Belles of London)

By Mimi Matthews - Published 2024

Genres:

Romance

I confess: I’ve been waiting for this book. Stella’s meeting with the outspoken artist in Book 3 of the Belles of London ...Read Review

In the Day of Trouble

By Taj Magruder - Published 2024

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

On March 17, 1934, Susan Mummey, “Old Suze,” was shot to death in her home. The so-called Witch of Ringtown Valley, Pennsylvania, was killed by ...Read Review

The Murderess

By Laurie Notaro - Published 2024

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Winnie Ruth Judd, a 26-year-old medical secretary, wife to Dr. William Judd and infamous murderess of the title, is the subject of Notaro’...Read Review

On a Chariot of Fire: The Story of India’s Bene Israel

By Erica Lyons - By Siona Benjamin (illus.) - Published 2024

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

The Maccabean Revolt of 167 BCE is familiar to many through the holiday of Hanukkah. Less well known is that some Jewish people fled ...Read Review

Lost at Windy River: A True Story of Survival

By Alina Pete (illus.) - By Trina Rathgeber - Published 2024

Genres:

AdventureBiographical FictionChildren/Young Adult

When thirteen-year-old Ilse is separated from her brothers while routinely checking on winter traps in northern Canada, she must face the toughest challenge ...Read Review

Cast Aside

By John W Harding - Published 2023

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

In 1924, actor Francis X. Bushman is trying to come back from a tarnished image and a five-year “blacklist” after having an affair with ...Read Review

Under a Lightning Sky

By Pam Lecky - Published 2024

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Having completed her trilogy of novels about Irish World War Two spy Sarah Gillespie, Pam Lecky returns to London during the blitz for ...Read Review

Death and the Visitors (A Mary Shelley Mystery)

By Heather Redmond - Published 2024

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Mary’s late mother is philosopher and women’s rights advocate Mary Wollstonecraft. Young Mary lives in London in the household of her ...Read Review