HNR Issue 95 (February 2021)

Death and the Singing Birds (Nell Drury Mystery 3)

By Amy Myers - Published 2021

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

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)

By Bernard Cornwell - Published 2020

Genres:

AdventureMilitary

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

By Kristy Cambron - Published 2021

Genres:

Inspirational Romance

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

Gerta: A Novel

By Kateřina Tučková - By Véronique Firkusny (trans.) - Published 2021

Genres:

Literary

The upheaval begins for Gerta Schnirch in the first year of secondary school when her beloved art teacher is let go and she ...Read Review

Theophano: A Byzantine Tale

By Spyros Theocharis - Published 2020

Genres:

940 – 976 CE, Constantinople. Despite her low birth, Anastasia dreams of becoming Empress. By chance, she meets the prince, and the two fall in love. ...Read Review

Dark Tides (The Fairmile Series 2)

By Philippa Gregory - Published 2020

Genres:

On Midsummer Eve, 1670, a beautiful young woman from Venice arrives at a ramshackle warehouse in London. Livia di Ricci clutches her infant son ...Read Review

Medici: Supremacy

By Matteo Struckul - By Richard McKenna (trans.) - Published 2020

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Florence, 1469. Lorenzo de Medici has become the head of the family and de facto ruler of Florence. Life is never simple in the ...Read Review

Murder Most Festive: A Christmas Mystery

By Ada Moncrieff - Published 2020

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

England, 1938, and it’s Christmas Eve at the large house Westbury Manor in Sussex, home to Lord and Lady Westbury, who are having ...Read Review

Into Africa

By Bob Coles - By Kerry McDonald - Published 2020

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Despite the rumors, Janet Livingstone believes her brother, famed missionary David Livingstone, is still alive. When she receives a crucifix in the mail, ...Read Review

The Eagle and the Viper

By Loren D. Estleman - Published 2021

Genres:

Alternate HistoryThriller

Napoleon Bonaparte is First Consul of France, but there is a plot afoot to kill him. Written by the brilliant, award-winning Loren D. ...Read Review