HNR Issue 95 (February 2021)

The Last Garden in England

By Julia Kelly - Published 2021

Genres:

Three women; three time periods. All connected by one garden. The storyline takes the reader to 1907, 1944, and the present, during which the women ...Read Review

Invitation to Die (Inspector Redfyre Mysteries)

By Barbara Cleverly - Published 2020

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

The author of Fall of Angels returns with Detective Inspector (DI) John Redfyre in Cambridge during the early summer of 1924. The clever young ...Read Review

Black Bottom Saints

By Alice Randall - Published 2020

Genres:

Literary

In Detroit in 1968, choreographer and emcee Joseph “Ziggy” Johnson lies dying in a hospital. He knows he doesn’t have long to live ...Read Review

The Way Back

By Gavriel Savit - Published 2020

Genres:

Children/Young AdultHistorical FantasyLiterary

Imagine a Chagall who works in words, not paint. His work is intricate, moving, whimsical, Slavic, Jewish, folkloric—but his colors are limited ...Read Review

A Haven for Her Heart (Redemption’s Light)

By Susan Anne Mason - Published 2020

Genres:

Inspirational Romance

In 1941 Toronto, Olivia Rosetti is released from a woman’s reformatory after having been banished by her family for conceiving a child out ...Read Review

Notorious (Rebels of the Ton)

By Minerva Spencer - Published 2020

Genres:

Romance

Despite the decidedly Victorian bustle on the lady’s silhouette featured on the cover, this is a Regency romance set in 1817. Drusilla Clare ...Read Review

Red Hands

By Colin W. Sargent - Published 2020

Genres:

Thriller

Red Hands opens like a thriller, and keeps up the tension, even as the narrative voice of Iordana Borila describes a golden, happy ...Read Review

Double Falsehood: A Shakespearean Thriller

By Vaughn Entwistle - Published 2020

Genres:

Thriller

In the White Hart Inn near Marlborough, England, Double Falsehood, a long-lost play by William Shakespeare, falls into the hands of present-day inn ...Read Review

The Mitford Trial (The Mitford Murders)

By Jessica Fellowes - Published 2020

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

1933: Louisa Sullivan is newly married to a policeman who is responding to fascist uprisings in London, even during their wedding reception. Having previously ...Read Review

Britain and the Ocean Road: Shipwrecks and People, 1297-1825

By Ian Friel - Published 2020

Genres:

NauticalNonfiction

This is not a maritime history of Britain to 1825, nor is it really a book about shipwrecks. It is a set of eight ...Read Review