HNR Issue 112 (May 2025)
Rapture
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Emily Maguire’s new novel, Rapture, takes as its inspiration the legend of Pope Joan, reworking key elements of the myth to create ...Read Review
State of Emergency
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Singapore, 1963. What can you say about a young woman, Siew Li, who walked away, without warning, from her twin children and husband? Jeremy ...Read Review
Dangerous (A Lord Byron Mystery)
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A new Essie Fox novel is always a delight because she creates immersive and unique settings laced with gothic. Previous novels have featured ...Read Review
Splinter Effect (A Splinter Effect Book, 1)
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Time-travelling chrono-archeologist Dr. Rabbit Ward jumps back to 535 CE Constantinople in this thrilling debut from Andrew Ludington. Rabbit’s employers, the Smithsonian, are ...Read Review
The Mare
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Hermine Braunsteiner was a guard at the Ravensbrück and Majdanek concentration camps, where she earned the soubriquet “die stampfende Stüte” – “the ...Read Review
The Pecan Sheller
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Despite being an enthusiastic student and passionate writer, 13-year-old Petra Mendoza is forced to quit school and work in a pecan-shelling factory alongside ...Read Review
How to Seal Your Own Fate (Castle Knoll Files)
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How to Seal Your Own Fate is the second novel in Perrin’s cleverly conceived series about Annie Adams, a mystery writer who ...Read Review
Tempest at Annabel’s Lighthouse
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Annabel’s tale is a ghost story, Rebecca can’t remember who she is, and Shea is investigating the past that shrouds Annabel’...Read Review
Suellen
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1877, Tennessee. While slowly recovering from the Civil War’s devastation, thirty-year-old Suellen, a widow and resident of Fremont, Tennessee, meets Theodore Kincaid, a ...Read Review
What the Silent Say
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What the Silent Say is a fictionalised account of facts Emerson Ford gleaned through letters written within her own family, specifically those written ...Read Review
