HNR Issue 116 (May 2026)
Clem Fatale Has Been Upstaged
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Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime
This middle-grade crime caper follows on from Clem Fatale has been Betrayed, and is the second of Wersocki-Morris’s mysteries set in London ...Read Review
Heart
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Heart by Jonathan Chalstrey opens in 1506 Seville, where sixteen-year-old Hernando Bustamante serves as apprentice to the curious and determined Doctor Bartolo. What begins ...Read Review
The Regency Switch
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Two very distantly related young women exchange lives and bodies, one from 1817, the other from 2023. How will they adjust to the changes? Will ...Read Review
Death at Bitterwood Clearing (A Civil War Mystery)
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The US Civil War acquits itself well as a historical mystery venue. Stress and danger are everywhere, and murder notches up the tension. ...Read Review
My Agrippa: Love, Loyalty, and the Fall of the Republic
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27 BCE. My Agrippa creates a fictional love story between Octavia, sister of Octavian, who later became Caesar Augustus, and Marcus Agrippa, a brilliant ...Read Review
The Accidental Heretic
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In the 18th century, Europe is in the throes of the Enlightenment, but in Spain the Inquisition still holds sway, and it fears ...Read Review
Tethered Spirits
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In 1750s Nova Scotia, the British and French fight for North American dominance while the indigenous Mi’kmaq are pushed off their native ...Read Review
Japanese Gothic
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Baker’s weird, surreal novel unravels the trials of Lee Turner as he confronts his childhood, the disappearance of his mother, and a ...Read Review
The Case of the Hydegild Sacrifice: The Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy (Major Gask Mysteries)
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Scotland, February 1865. This is book four of the Major Gask & Erroll Rait Mysteries. Gask and Rait have to leave Scotland quickly to ...Read Review
House of Spells and Secrets
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Three sisters, triplets, in their late 20s, have just lost their mother when they find a photo of a young girl standing in ...Read Review
