2020

Sherlock Holmes and the Werewolves of Edinburgh: Being Book 2 of the Unpublished Case Files of John H. Watson, M.D.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Having dispatched The Undead Client (HNR 88), Holmes and Watson confront a far greater threat in this, Book Two of the Unpublished Case Files ...Read Review

The Shadows of Versailles

By Cathie Dunn - Published 2020

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

The Shadows of Versailles is set during the reign of Louis XIV in the 17th century. Seventeen-year-old Blanchefleur de La Fontaine is seduced ...Read Review

Viking (Two Kings Trilogy, Book 1)

By Ole Åsli - By Tony Bakkejord - Published 2020

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Book One in the Two Kings Trilogy begins in Northumbria, 841 CE, with a Viking raid on an English village. The destitute village has ...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

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

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

A Witch in Time

By Constance Sayers - Published 2020

Genres:

Historical Fantasy

The novel follows four women through history: Juliet in 1890s Paris, Nora in 1930s Hollywood, Sandra in 1970s California and finally Helen in ...Read Review

Hideous Progeny: Mary Shelley and Her Monster

By Vaughn Entwistle - Published 2020

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Have you ever taken a romantic trip with friends—to Lake Geneva, Switzerland, perhaps—only to be kept inside by rain? In 1818, you ...Read Review

The River Within

By Karen Powell - Published 2020

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

There’s something rotten in North Yorkshire in 1955, and it’s not just the bloated corpse of Danny Masters, which floats to the ...Read Review

Child Bride: A Novel

By Jennifer Smith Turner - Published 2020

Genres:

Turner, a poet, has written a lovely coming-of-age novel centered on Nell Jones, 16, the youngest child of twelve in an impoverished African American ...Read Review