HNR Issue 91 (February 2020)
Felicity Carrol and the Murderous Menace: A Felicity Carrol Mystery
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The second novel in this mystery series set in the Victorian era finds the redoubtable Felicity Carrol in pursuit of Jack the Ripper. ...Read Review
Children of the Stars
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Jacob and Moses Stern’s well-known playwright parents have fled south from the Nazis, leaving the boys behind. This book begins on July 16, 1942, ...Read Review
Never Pleasing to the World: A Man and His Slaves
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Spanning the years 1731 to 1804, this debut novel tells the story of Robert Carter III, a Virginian who deserves to be better known. Born ...Read Review
Sword of Kings: A Novel (Saxon Tales)
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In Sword of Kings, the twelfth book in Bernard Cornwell’s popular Saxon series, Uhtred of Bebbanburg has grown older and wiser, but, ...Read Review
If Anyone Asks, Say I Died from the Heartbreaking Blues
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Genre is a problematic concept. Is Philip Cioffari’s delightful tragicomedy a novel with a soundtrack, or a musical on paper? It certainly ...Read Review
Kitty Peck and the Parliament of Shadows (Kitty Peck 4)
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This latest instalment of Kate Griffin’s series takes us once again into the world of the Victorian East End. At the end ...Read Review
Above the Bay of Angels
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When Isabella Waverly enters service at fifteen to support her younger sister, she knows she will never regain the affluent status her family ...Read Review
Hocus Girl (A Simon Westow mystery)
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In Leeds in 1822, Simon Westow is a “thief-taker,” someone who restores stolen goods to their original owners. Now his dear friend, Davey Ashton, ...Read Review
