HNR Issue 91 (February 2020)
The Silk Merchant of Sychar
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This is Australian writer Cindy Williams’ second novel. Her first, The Pounamu Prophecy, was set in her birth country of New Zealand and ...Read Review
Moonlight Over Mayfair
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The sequel to One Enchanted Evening (HNR 89), Moonlight Over Mayfair explores the complicated lives of the staff and patrons of London’s luxurious ...Read Review
Book of the Just (The Bohemian Trilogy)
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In this conclusion to her absorbing gothic fantasy, The Bohemian Trilogy, Carpenter has sent her uncanny heroine, Mouse, fleeing across the globe with ...Read Review
The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics: Feminine Pursuits
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This superb novel, set during Regency times, unveils the love story between two intelligent women who, in different ways, struggle to be taken ...Read Review
The Shadow King: A Novel
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Maaza Mengiste’s The Shadow King begins after Benito Mussolini’s second invasion of Ethiopia in 1935, when a Fascist army armed with tanks ...Read Review
The German House
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World War II is no more than a hazy memory for 24-year-old Eva Bruhns, who in 1963 Frankfurt is more concerned with her demanding ...Read Review
Estoril
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In June 1940, a ten-year-old Jewish boy from Antwerp arrives alone at the Hotel Palácio Estoril outside Lisbon. Gaby, short for Gavrihel, brings ...Read Review
Somewhere Besides Denver
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Violet, Marion, and Helen, a trio of young women from Denver, are doing the Grand Tour of Europe in 1907, accompanied by their chaperone, ...Read Review
Quest for Gold
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Pirate life sounded like paradise to eighteen-year-old Daniel Wincott, compared to the abuse he received from his drunken father. Opportunity for riches and ...Read Review
Capturing the Devil (Stalking Jack the Ripper)
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Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime
In this fourth and final installment of Maniscalco’s sassy and salacious Stalking Jack the Ripper series, the darkly brilliant power-couple Audrey Rose ...Read Review