HNR Issue 75 (February 2016)
When Falcons Fall: A Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery
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St. Cyr, better known to his readers as Devlin, arrives with his family in a small Shropshire village in 1813, ostensibly on a quest ...Read Review
Signs for Lost Children
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1880s England. Signs for Lost Children picks up directly from where Sarah Moss’ previous novel Bodies of Light left off. Freshly qualified doctor, ...Read Review
Children of the Day
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The Michaels family lives in Union County, Ohio in 1870. It’s a blended family, Larissa having lost her first husband in the recent ...Read Review
The Bottom of Your Heart: Inferno for Commissario Ricciardi
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Maurizio de Giovanni’s brooding Commissario Luigi Ricciardi is back in the seventh installment of this terrific mystery series set in 1930s Naples, ...Read Review
Bottomland
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Hess is a German name – and on the bleak Iowa plains in the wake of World War I, that means confronting your neighbors’ ...Read Review
The Case of the ‘Hail Mary’ Celeste: The Case Files of Jack Wenlock, Railway Detective
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On the eve of the nationalisation of Britain’s railways in 1947, Jack Wenlock, last of the GWR company detectives, monikered the Railway Goslings, ...Read Review
Dark Places
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It’s 1967 in Lamar County, Texas, a place for young and old to easily become bored. Fourteen-year-old Pepper convinces Cale, a boy she ...Read Review
The Time of the Clockmaker (Seventh Miss Hatfield 2)
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After being abducted, turned into an immortal adult overnight, and sent back and forth in time at the behest of her inscrutable mentor, ...Read Review
Captive of Friendly Cove: Based on the Secret Journals of John Jewitt
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
John Jewitt was a British soldier whose ship was attacked by the Mowachaht people, a First Nation community, who resided on an island ...Read Review
Assassin’s Mask: A Palace of Spies Novel, 3
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It’s 1716 in England, and life is turning around for seventeen-year-old Margaret “Peggy” Fitzroy. By day Peggy is maid of honour to her ...Read Review