HNR Issue 83 (February 2018)

Rhode Island Rendezvous

By Linda Collison - Published 2017

Genres:

AdventureNautical

This third book in the Patricia MacPherson Nautical Adventure Series takes place during the years leading up to the American Revolution. Patricia has ...Read Review

Mrs. Osmond

By John Banville - Published 2017

Genres:

Literary

Isabel Osmond (née Archer) has disobeyed her husband, Gilbert, and left Rome to visit her dying cousin in England. After the funeral, ...Read Review

The Seed Woman

By Edwin Miles (trans.) - By Petra Durst-Benning - Published 2017

Genres:

Saga

The first book in Petra Durst-Benning’s Seed Traders’ Saga was published in Germany in 2005, though has not been translated to English until ...Read Review

A Lady in Shadows

By Elisabeth Dyssegaard (trans.) - By Lene Kaaberbøl - Published 2017

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

On June 2, 1894, French president Marie François Sadi Carnot is assassinated by an Italian. In the streets of Varbourg, where Madeleine Karno resides, ...Read Review

The Silent Companions

By Laura Purcell - Published 2017Published 2018

Genres:

Thriller

Ghost stories are having a revival at present, and Laura Purcell’s The Silent Companions, set in the 19th century, is a worthy ...Read Review

The Taster

By V. S. Alexander - Published 2018

Genres:

Germany, 1943. When fiery destruction is predicted for Berlin, 25-year-old Magda Ritter is sent to live with relatives in Berchtesgaden. Unable to find work, ...Read Review

Nucleus

By Rory Clements - Published 2018

Genres:

Thriller

Nucleus, a thriller from Rory Clements, best known for his Tudor espionage novels, is set just months before the outbreak of the Second ...Read Review

Death at Nuremberg

By W.E.B. Griffin - By William E. Butterworth IV - Published 2017

Genres:

Thriller

“Diplomatic” is not the best word to describe Captain James Cronley, Jr., leader of a team of agents for the Directorate of Central ...Read Review

As Bright as Heaven

By Susan Meissner - Published 2018

Genres:

Saga

Writing with tremendous empathy, Meissner shows how a family is transformed by tragedy and hope during the 1918 influenza pandemic. Pauline Bright has finally ...Read Review

The Sea Before Us

By Sarah Sundin - Published 2018

Genres:

In 1944, Lieutenant Wyatt Paxton is in London as part of the US Navy team assigned to the Allied naval headquarters to assist with ...Read Review