HNR Issue 40 (May 2007)
Northfield: A Western Story
Few American criminals enjoy the attention paid to Jesse James and his gang of Confederate guerrillas and post-Civil War bank…
Companions of Paradise
Continuing the saga of A Singular Hostage and A Beggar at the Gate, Englishwoman Mariana Givens has been separated from…
Sister Pelagia and the White Bulldog
Philologist, critic, essayist and translator from the Japanese Grigory Chkhartishvili adopts the pen name of Boris Akunin for this anticipated…
A Gift for a Rake
Eleanor Carruthers’ coach overturns in the snow on her way to relatives and she is forced to take shelter at…
Pelagia and the Black Monk
Did you know that Boris Akunin writes detective stories as well as thrillers? Neither did I, but the first two…
Broken Harmony
This is the first in a line of historical mysteries to be published by Crème de la Crime. The scene…
Pilate’s Wife
Young Claudia, distant relative of the emperor Tiberius and eventual wife of Pontius Pilate, is a dreamer prone to prophetic…
John’s Story: The Last Eyewitness (Book One of the Jesus Chronicles)
This latest novel from the authors of the “Left Behind” series floats an interesting premise: a novel about the writing…
Penhallow
When a crime novel begins with the immortal words “Jimmy the Bastard was cleaning boots …” then the reader can…
The Quality of Mercy
The Quality of Mercy is the latest entry in the mystery series featuring a seemingly unlikely pair: British aristocrat Lord…
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