HNR Issue 92 (May 2020)
Historical Novels Review | Issue 92, May 2020
First Comes Scandal: A Bridgerton Prequel
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1791. Summoned home urgently from medical school in Edinburgh, Nicholas Rokesby is grateful it is not for a death in the family. He is ...Read Review
Murder in Venice
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Venice, 1752. When the body of an impoverished nobleman is discovered, Avogadore Marco Pisani is asked to investigate. He’s helped by his friend ...Read Review
The Foundling (UK) / The Lost Orphan (US)
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In 1748, Bessie Bright gives birth to an illegitimate daughter, Clara. Due to her poverty-stricken circumstances, she is forced to leave the newborn at ...Read Review
A Bottle of Rum (A Spider John Mystery)
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In 1723, former pirates Spider John Rush and his comrade Odin are enjoying good tankards of ale at the Crosskeys Tavern in the port ...Read Review
Death and the Chevalier (A Cragg and Fidelis Mystery)
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Prestonians in Lancashire, England, have bitter memories of the Scottish risings of 1715 and 1719 that left much of the town in ashes. In November 1745, ...Read Review
Tsarina
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This is the story of Catherine I of Russia, not to be confused with Catherine the Great. This Catherine was born in 1684 to ...Read Review
A Woman of the Road (The Honest Thieves Trilogy)
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Imagine if Roaring Girl Moll Cutpurse joined Dumas’ Three Musketeers and you have the story of Margaret Tanner, who escapes her cruel father ...Read Review
Written in Their Stars: The Lydiard Chronicles 1649-1664
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1649: The beheading of King Charles I tears the Apsley family apart. Luce Apsley Hutchinson, who encouraged her husband John to sign the order ...Read Review
A Roll of the Bones
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Orphaned as a child, Nancy spent most of her life as a servant in the Gale household. Close in age to the family’...Read Review
Fierce Dreamer
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Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1656) was raised in the almost exclusively male art world of 17th-century Italy. She had a natural eye for colour, texture, ...Read Review