HNR Issue 92 (May 2020)
Historical Novels Review | Issue 92, May 2020
If I Were You
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If I Were You is a story of friendship, betrayal, class, and the desperate measures people take to survive in wartime. The story ...Read Review
On Wings of Devotion (The Codebreakers)
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In 1918 London, nurse Arabelle Denler tries to ignore her loneliness by immersing herself into her war work. Her father, an intrepid explorer, is ...Read Review
Ungentlemanly Warfare
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Harry Walsh is a brash, take-no-orders survivor of Dunkirk who works for the British SOE. A master saboteur and spy, Walsh is given ...Read Review
The Spice King (Hope and Glory)
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Annabelle Larkin, recent graduate of Kansas State Agricultural College, is trying to turn her temporary position as botanical specialist at the Smithsonian Institution ...Read Review
The Girl with the Golden Scissors
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This novel is a mesmerizing story of an orphaned little girl growing up in Vienna in the years before World War I. It ...Read Review
The Literary Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Volumes 1 and 2
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A very entertaining and often enlightening read. Holmes and Watson, in their traditional Conan Doyle personas, encounter several real-life literary greats who were ...Read Review
Only Gossip Prospers: A Novel of Louisa May Alcott in New York
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Following the success of her novel Little Women, Louisa May Alcott took an extended trip to New York City. Only Gossip Prospers presents ...Read Review
Hot Lead, Cold Justice (A Caleb York Western)
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Several years after the Civil War, Trinidad, New Mexico is being hit by a major blizzard. Deputy Jonathan P. Tulley is walking the ...Read Review
Courting Anna: Women of Destiny
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Anna Harrison is a lawyer in late 19th-century Montana and somewhat of a celebrity due to her sex and her refusal to marry ...Read Review
The Shattered Portrait (Belle Epoque Mystery)
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Quinn’s second mystery in the Belle Époque series is set in Cannes, using the 1883 real estate scandal of the ‘Boulevard de la ...Read Review