HNR Issue 95 (February 2021)
Summer of Secrets (A Gaslight Mystery 3)
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Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens visit Knebworth House in Hertfordshire as guests of playwright and author Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton in August, 1856. Other invited ...Read Review
The Shepherd’s Wife (Jerusalem Road)
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Sisters Pheodora and Damaris are different in almost every way but most especially in status. While Damaris’s wealthy husband is being given ...Read Review
Eventide
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In 1907, two adolescent sisters from New York are forced onto an orphan train to Arkansas when their father is deemed too mentally unstable ...Read Review
Something in Madness (Darkhorse Trilogy)
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In November 1865, Durksen Hurst, along with two of his remaining partners from DarkHorse plantation, Big Josh and Long Lou, two former slaves, are ...Read Review
His Accidental Bride
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With the recent popularity of books about mail-order brides, Frank has employed this subject in her latest historical romance. Despite a slightly awkward ...Read Review
These Violent Delights
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Gross, violent, beautiful, and poetic, Chloe Gong’s reimagined tale of Shakespeare’s two star-crossed lovers features the city of Shanghai in the 1920...Read Review
Hard Times
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The promise of Amelia’s schoolgirl achievement and young love with a newcomer to the bottomlands fade to teasing memories as she comes ...Read Review
Death and the Singing Birds (Nell Drury Mystery 3)
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This third book in the Nell Drury mystery series can be read as a standalone. It is 1926 in Kent, which is still adjusting ...Read Review
War Lord (Saxon Tales 13)
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This is the (probable) conclusion to The Last Kingdom series, which follows the adventures of Uhtred, the lord of Bebbanburg (Bamburgh), during the ...Read Review
The Paris Dressmaker
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This novel highlights the Nazi occupation of Paris during WWII and is told through two separate women’s lives. Both have experienced love ...Read Review
