HNR Issue 96 (May 2021)

High Treason at the Grand Hotel: A Fiona Figg Mystery

By Kelly Oliver - Published 2021

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Fiona Figg, a file clerk working at the London War Office during WWI, is sent to Paris to spy on the suspected spy ...Read Review

The Last Days of Ellis Island

By Gaëlle Josse - By Natasha Lehrer (trans.) - Published 2020

Genres:

Literary

Winner of the European Union Prize for Literature, this slim novel won widespread critical praise for its lyrical, melancholy memoir and confession of ...Read Review

The Awakening of Malcolm X: A Novel

By Tiffany D. Jackson - Published 2021

Genres:

Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult

At the age of twenty, Malcolm Little was imprisoned for stealing. In first-person narration, Malcolm tells of his time in prison, with flashbacks ...Read Review

Sherlock Holmes and the Werewolves of Edinburgh: Being Book 2 of the Unpublished Case Files of John H. Watson, M.D.

By M. J. Downing - Published 2020

Genres:

Historical FantasyMystery/Crime

Having dispatched The Undead Client (HNR 88), Holmes and Watson confront a far greater threat in this, Book Two of the Unpublished Case Files ...Read Review

A Family Secret

By Libby Ashworth - Published 2021

Genres:

Saga

This the third book in the Mill Town Lasses series following The Cotton Spinner and A Lancashire Lass. Although it can be read ...Read Review

The Phantom in the Fog (A Bowman Of The Yard Investigation 4)

By Richard James - Published 2020

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

London, 1892. This book, the fourth in the Bowman of the Yard series, starts where the third book, The Body in the Trees (HNR 95) ...Read Review

The Manningtree Witches

By A. K. BLAKEMORE - Published 2021

Genres:

Set in England in 1643, The Manningtree Witches is based on the activities of Matthew Hopkins, the self-styled Witchfinder General. Told through the eyes ...Read Review

A Flame Out at Sea

By Novikov Dmitry - Published 2019

Genres:

Literary

This is a novel about the Russian North, the land of the Pomors, a landscape of lakes and forests, bears and fish, where ...Read Review

The Forgotten Life of Arthur Pettinger

By Suzanne Fortin - Published 2021

Genres:

Arthur Pettinger has forgotten his life because he is 96 years old and sinking into dementia.  His granddaughter, Maddy, sets out to retrieve it, ...Read Review

Midnight Fire (A Jagiellon Mystery)

By P.K. Adams - Published 2020

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In the summer of 1545, Catarina travels to Krakow from her home in Bari, Italy. She is accompanied by her husband and young son, ...Read Review