HNR Issue 75 (February 2016)

The Lockwoods of Clonakilty

By Mark Bois - Published 2015

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Lieutenant James Lockwood of the Inniskilling Regiment returns home to Clonakilty after the battle of Waterloo, badly wounded. He recovers a precarious health ...Read Review

Vienna in Violet

By David W. Frank - Published 2015

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Mystery/Crime

Amsterdam, 1822. After performing a commissioned piece for some of Amsterdam’s wealthiest, singer Johann Michael Vogl and composer Franz Schubert become the lead ...Read Review

Unearthing the Bones: A Warbonnet Mystery

By Robert Kresge - Published 2015

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Mystery/CrimeWestern

Unearthing the Bones is fifth in Kresge’s Warbonnet series. Warbonnet is in Wyoming, and in 1874 it’s under the protection of Marshal ...Read Review

The Mind’s Own Place

By Ian Reid - Published 2015

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Inspired in part by real events and the early pioneers of the Swan River Colony, this novel tells the story of five individuals, ...Read Review

Go Away Home

By Carol Bodensteiner - Published 2015

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A century ago, the roles of women were etched in stone: wife, homemaker, helpmate. However, Liddie Treadway does not intend to be pigeonholed ...Read Review

Platinum Doll

By Anne Girard - Published 2016

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Biographical Fiction

What a gem of a book this is! Anne Girard has taken the story of Jean Harlow, glamorous bombshell of the early days ...Read Review

The Edge of Lost

By Kristina McMorris - Published 2015

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The Edge of Lost opens on Alcatraz in 1937, with an elusive prologue describing a moment from an apparent escape attempt. The prologue ends ...Read Review

No Shred of Evidence: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery

By Charles Todd - Published 2016

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Mystery/Crime

In the eighteenth in this fine series, Scotland Yard sends Inspector Ian Rutledge to Cornwall to investigate a boating incident in which a ...Read Review

The Muralist

By B.A. Shapiro - Published 2015

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On the eve of the Second World War, artist Alizee Benoit is employed by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) to paint murals for ...Read Review

Manners & Mutiny: Finishing School, Book the Fourth

By Gail Carriger - Published 2015

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AdventureChildren/Young Adult

Sophronia Temminnick and her particular friends are nearing the end of their careers at Mademoiselle Geraldine’s Finishing School. The proper Victorian establishment ...Read Review