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HNR Issue 110 (November 2024)

Holmes and Moriarty

By Gareth Rubin - Published 2024

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December 1889. Sherlock Holmes and his friend Dr Watson are intrigued when fledgling actor George Reynolds approaches them with the strange story that his ...Read Review

Love’s Winding Road (Great Wagon Road)

By Susan F. Craft - Published 2024

Genres:

Romance

Starting from colonial Philadelphia in 1753, Rose Jackson and her Scots-Irish immigrant family join a small wagon train heading south to hopefully settle in ...Read Review

Christmas with the Queen

By Hazel Gaynor - By Heather Webb - Published 2024

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This delightful seasonal novel begins in 1952 with Queen Elizabeth II, not long after her father’s untimely death. Although it takes place mostly ...Read Review

The Book of Tudllan

By Tim Hamer - Published 2023

Genres:

Adventure Children/Young Adult

When visiting the ruins of an abbey, Alfie spots four mysterious people consulting an old leather-bound book. What could they be looking for ...Read Review

The Secret War of Julia Child

By Diana Chambers - Published 2024

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Before Julia Child was Julia Child, she was Julia McWilliams, who served in the OSS (predecessor of the CIA) in the Far East ...Read Review

Power and Obsession

By Catherine McCullagh - Published 2024

Genres:

Alternate History

McCullagh’s Resistance and Revenge was one of my favorite books of 2023. Unfortunately, this offering falls far short of that standard. McCullagh again ...Read Review

The River Knows My Name

By Luke Leafgren (trans.) - By Mortada Gzar - Published 2024

Genres:

Literary

In early 20th-century Basra, Iraq, fifteen-year-old Charlotte lives with her father, a doctor and missionary from Seattle. While they reside comfortably in a ...Read Review

You’re the Problem, It’s You: A Novel (The Mischief & Matchmaking Series, 2)

By Emma R. Alban - Published 2024

Genres:

Romance

It’s 1858 London, and second son Bobby Mason and newly-inherited viscount James Demeroven have a problem: each other. Bobby is tired of being “...Read Review

Try Before You Trust: To All Gentlewomen and Other Maids in Love

By Constance Briones - Published 2024

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

London in the early autumn of 1567, and Isabella Whitney, aged 18, arrives at the substantial London home of the widowed Lady Bramwell. As a ...Read Review