HNR Issue 80 (May 2017)
Bachelor Girl
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The time frame of this novel spans 21 years from 1918 to 1939. The plot revolves around Jacob Ruppert, a real person, owner of the Ruppert ...Read Review
Eagles in the Storm
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It is AD 15 and Arminius, the leader of the Cherusci tribe, has finally succeeded in welding together the disparate German tribes under his ...Read Review
The Competition: Da Vinci’s Disciples, #2
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In the late 15th century, six women dare to seek permission from the head of a noble Florentine family and the ruler of ...Read Review
The Fatal Tree
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London, the 1720s. The underworld here is known as ‘Romeville’, while the scaffold at Tyburn is ‘The Fatal Tree’. This is the story ...Read Review
A Lady in Disguise: Daughters of Hampshire
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Bereft at the unexpected loss of her father in 1883, Gillian Young returns from his funeral to discover a London Metropolitan Police sergeant searching ...Read Review
The Secrets of Gaslight Lane
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This is the fourth book in the delightful Victorian Gower Street Detective series. Sidney Grice and his ward/assistant, March Middleton, take on ...Read Review
See What I Have Done
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Biographical FictionLiteraryMystery/Crime
Lizzie Borden’s acquittal for the murder of her father and stepmother has already generated numerous books, films and plays, even musicals. Whether ...Read Review
The Heart’s Invisible Furies
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In a small parish in West Cork in 1945, Catherine Goggin, aged just 16, is pregnant and unmarried and with the intolerance and bigotry of ...Read Review
Catching the Wind
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Quenby Vaughn, an American journalist working in London, reluctantly accepts an assignment to try to find Brigitte, a child who fled from Germany ...Read Review
Defectors
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Moscow, 1961. It’s been twelve years since CIA agent Frank Weeks betrayed his country —and his own brother—then disappeared behind the Iron ...Read Review