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HNR Issue 95 (February 2021)

The Chanel Sisters: A Novel

By Judithe Little - Published 2020

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Most people have heard of the legendary Coco Chanel, but few know about her sisters, Antoinette and Julia-Berthe. This is the story of ...Read Review

A Sinister Service (A Lady and Lady’s Maid Mystery)

By Alyssa Maxwell - Published 2021

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

The sixth installment of the Lady and Lady’s Maid cozy mysteries takes us to rural Staffordshire, where the smoke clouds from the ...Read Review

Katharina – Fortitude

By Margaret Skea - Published 2019

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Biographical Fiction

This is a truly heart-warming story of a woman’s life as she marries and raises a family in Wittenberg, Saxony. The story ...Read Review

A Wicked Bargain for the Duke: A Hazards of Dukes Novel

By Megan Frampton - Published 2021

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Romance

Thaddeus Dutton, Duke of Hasford, is unprepared for the responsibilities when he unexpectedly inherits the dukedom. As a former military officer, however, he ...Read Review

Beauty Among Ruins

By J'nell Ciesielski - Published 2021

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Inspirational Romance

In 1914, American party girl Lily Durham is shipped over to Britain to stay with her English aristocrat cousins and learn some manners. But ...Read Review

Nick

By Michael Farris Smith - Published 2021

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In his new novel, Smith imagines the back story of Nick Carraway, narrator of Fitzgerald’s classic, The Great Gatsby. Exquisitely written, the ...Read Review

Ace Boon Coon (Tales of Elliot Caprice)

By Danny Gardner - Published 2020

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Mystery/Crime

Author Danny Gardner immediately plunges readers into the thick of the action in Ace Boon Coon. The book is his second novel featuring ...Read Review

The Secrets of Winter: A Josephine Tey Mystery

By Nicola Upson - Published 2020

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In this ninth entry of the popular and imaginative series, famed mystery writer Josephine Tey and friends descend upon the beautiful and isolated ...Read Review

Our Darkest Night: A Novel of Italy and the Second World War

By Jennifer Robson - Published 2021

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In October 1942 in Venice, 23-year-old Antonina (Nina) tends to her invalid mother. Later, Nina observes a Catholic priest visiting her Jewish physician father ...Read Review