HNR Issue 95 (February 2021)

Iron Will: Brunel’s Battle to Become the Greatest Engineer of the Victorian Age

By Toby Strauss - Published 2020

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Isambard Kingdom Brunel is a name which conjures up the Clifton Suspension Bridge, the Great Western Railway and its London terminus, Paddington Station, ...Read Review

The Lost Apothecary

By Sarah Penner - Published 2021

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Penner’s debut weaves an enthralling tale of a modern woman whose discovery of a centuries-old serial killer helps her come to terms ...Read Review

The Prophets

By Robert Jones Jr - Published 2021

Genres:

This ambitious debut about gay love on a slave plantation has all the right ingredients: a memorable cast of characters, a riveting plot ...Read Review

Masochist

By Katja Perat - By Michael Biggins (trans.) - Published 2020

Genres:

Literary

Perat tells the story of Nadezhda Moser, fictional stepdaughter of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, a foundling he discovered abandoned in a basket in the ...Read Review

Son of Nothingness, A Novel of Appearances

By Ona Russell - Published 2020

Genres:

In 1949 in Los Angeles, Andrew Martin—born Andrés Martinez—is a successful attorney representing management against workers. He has turned his back ...Read Review

A Lady’s Guide to Mischief and Mayhem (A Lady’s Guide, 1)

By Manda Collins - Published 2020

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeRomance

When she meets like-minded Caro Hardcastle at a boring dinner party, widowed businesswoman Lady Katherine Bascomb invites her to co-author a new column ...Read Review

The Sharpest Needle (A Lillian Frost and Edith Head Mystery, 4)

By Renee Patrick - Published 2021

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Former silent film star Marion Davies is receiving poison pen letters from the shadowy Argus. The letters threaten to expose an indiscretion with ...Read Review

Forever Phoebe

By Chalon Linton - Published 2021

Genres:

Inspirational Romance

In Somerset, 1814, Phoebe Jamison and her older brothers live a charmed life, placing bets with each other on a horse race or chess ...Read Review

Comes the War (Eddie Harkins, 2)

By Ed Ruggero - Published 2021

Genres:

MilitaryThriller

It is April 1944, and the Allies are preparing to invade France. Lieutenant Eddie Harkins is in England, on orders to join the Office ...Read Review

Ten Things I Hate About the Duke: A Difficult Dukes Novel

By Loretta Chase - Published 2020

Genres:

Romance

London, 1833. Cassandra Pomfret is a headstrong young woman who can’t manage to keep her political opinions to herself, much to her lordly ...Read Review