HNR Issue 110 (November 2024)
Murder in Mennefer
Genres:
Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime
This middle-grade story is steeped in mystery against the backdrop of ancient Egypt. Just as thirteen-year-old Imhotep is ready to embark on a ...Read Review
The Great When: A Long London Novel
Genres:
Historical FantasyMystery/Crime
Long paragraphs and unusual sentence constructions make immersion into The Great When challenging. Teenaged Dennis Knuckleyard works in a secondhand bookstore in a ...Read Review
Trouble Island
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In this atmospheric suspense novel inspired by the author’s own family history, a dangerous group of guests is stranded on a remote ...Read Review
The Birds of Dog: An Historical Novel Based on Mostly True Events
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“The sun was out, and the sciences were popping!” In a modified epistolary format, Parson recounts three related stories, connected by narrator, place, ...Read Review
The Company
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“The reader is therefore advised to proceed with caution. What tricks lie in this narrative are never evident or foretold. Indeed one of ...Read Review
The Prisoner of Bhopal
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Ten-year-old Amil is snatched away from his family to work for Mr Kumar, a printer, due to a debt of honour supposedly owed ...Read Review
Witty in Pink
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Both Blythe Rowley and Briggs Goswick need money to save their families from ruin, but despite their mutual attraction, a match between them ...Read Review
City of Woe
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Set in 1342 Florence, this novel is the second in a series by a husband-and-wife team, the first title being By Treason We Perish. ...Read Review
A Maid on Fifth Avenue
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1920s Ballydrynawn, West Kerry. Annie Thornton ties a white lace handkerchief to the Fairy Tree, hoping the magic will cure her mother. But ...Read Review
An Age of Winters
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In 1625 the Franconian village of Eisbach, already ravaged by plague and famine, is in the grip of the Little Ice Age during the ...Read Review
