HNR Issue 95 (February 2021)
Just Like That
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After the death of her best friend, Mary Jane Kowalski’s parents send her to boarding school in Maine for eighth grade. The ...Read Review
Shame the Devil
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Shame the Devil is an ambitious novel, spanning well over a decade in the life of Colin Blackburne. Our hero is only eleven ...Read Review
Wild Rain: Women Who Dare
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The stranger whom Spring Lee finds in a blizzard is like no man she’s met. Easterner Garrett McCray has come to Paradise, ...Read Review
Secrets of the Lavender Girls
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World War II, and three girls work on the factory line in the East End of London. But these girls don’t pack ...Read Review
The Wrong Kind of Woman
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Elitism and sexism at an all-male college in the 1970s are explored in this multilayered novel, The Wrong Kind of Woman. Virginia is ...Read Review
Death Comes to the Rectory (A Kurland St. Mary Mystery)
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The last in an eight-book cosy mystery series, Death Comes to the Rectory again employs the amateur sleuthing skills of Robert and Lucy ...Read Review
The Nature of Fragile Things
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Young women and a young girl must face stunning truths and summon the courage to survive the devastating wake of the Great San ...Read Review
The Long, Long Afternoon
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The Long, Long Afternoon is a police procedural mystery, set in suburban, middle-class California, where idyllic, domestic life is not all that it ...Read Review
Miss Benson’s Beetle
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A spinster teacher in her mid-forties in a girls’ school in ration-hit, grey-toned, austerity England in 1950, Miss Margery Benson walks out of her ...Read Review
Sicilian Dreams
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In 1907 Sicily, Santo Regina, a young widower, finds it difficult to make a living in a society divided into landowners and peasants. Seeing ...Read Review
