HNR Issue 40 (May 2007)
Betrayal
In the year 1122, Lady Katherine Stanfield’s husband, William Norris, is murdered. Heavy with child, Katherine does not grieve for…
The God of Spring
It is 1818, and French artist Théodore Géricault is in danger of becoming the 19th century equivalent of a one-hit…
Liszt’s Kiss
Editors' choice
Paris, 1832. A cholera epidemic rages, and Anne de Barbier-Chouant has lost her beloved mother to its deadly grasp. Alone…
People of the Nightland
This is the 14th in this series of novels about American prehistory. Written by a husband-and-wife team of archaeologists who…
The Solitude of Thomas Cave
Editors' choice
Set in the first half of the 17th century, this is a poetic and highly literate novel that has as…
The Painted Lady
London, 1670s. To aid their seduction of the beautiful Araminta, four of London’s most dissolute rakes have set up The…
A Family of Strangers
Young servant Kate O’Neal is transported to Botany Bay from England in 1793 after injuring her wealthy rapist. To survive…
The Chatelet Apprentice
Paris, 1761. A senior police officer disappears and raw recruit, Nicolas Le Floch, is instructed to find him. When unidentified…
Bluebird, or the Invention of Happiness
Editors' choice
Upon occasion a reviewer is familiar with the source material for a fictional biographical novel, and therefore dreads the transformation…
Nefertiti: The Book of the Dead
Queen Nefertiti, wife of the heretic pharaoh Akhenaten, has disappeared right before the all-important Jubilee celebration. Theban detective Rai Rahotep…
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