HNR Issue 40 (May 2007)
A Tendering in the Storm
This book continues the story begun in A Clearing in the Wild. Both novels are based on the true story…
Voices of the Night
Former pickpocket and secret murderess Maggie King has run afoul of London’s most notorious criminal. She and her “chavies,” the…
Kiss Me, Annabel
The Essex sisters, beautiful Scottish orphans, are the toast of Regency London. The second sister, Annabel, intends to use the…
Murder on the Eiffel Tower
June 1889. The Eiffel Tower is the most popular exhibit of the Paris Exposition and thousands flock each day to…
The Moonlit Cage
In 1846, eleven-year-old Darya is on the brink of womanhood. Her dearest companion, her Circassian grandmother, regales Darya with tales…
The Mercy Seller
Editors' choice
Anna Bookman and her grandfather, Finn, make their living illuminating precious books in early 15th-century Prague, a hotbed of religious…
The Traitor’s Tale
In 1450, England had been warring with France for almost a century. But the English were now on the losing…
Cold Cache
Kent Rasmussen, an officer of the North West Mounted Police, is leaving the force to return home to his mother…
The Sempster’s Tale
This is the latest in Margaret Frazer’s Dame Frevisse mystery series and is set in London during the reign of…
The War of Knives
The year is 1800, and the Haitian revolution has become a brutal civil war. Lieutenant Matty Graves of the U.S.…
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