HNR Issue 44 (May 2008)
Pickle to Pie
The premise of this “based on fact, veiled in fiction” novel is similar to Anne Landsman’s The Rowing Lesson:…
Stratton’s War
This is the first of a planned series of crime novels set in 1940s London. DI Ted Stratton is…
The Tears of Autumn
For Biff and Rosemary Banks, newly wed, their honeymoon in Italy is an adventure, one only improved by the…
A Vigil of Spies
The time is September 1373 and the Archbishop of York, John Thoresby, is dying in his palace at Bishopsthorpe. Princess…
The Anatomy of Deception
In the autopsy rooms of University Hospital, West Philadelphia, the young physician, Ephraim Carroll, is being taught about death by…
Company of Liars: A Story of the Plague
Midsummer’s Day 1348, and the first victim of the pestilence dies in the English coastal town of Kilmington. Camelot, a…
Cathedral of the Sea
Cathedral of the Sea is a most welcome addition to the growing genre of medieval fiction. It is one of…
The Red Thread
Charlotte and Robert are sibling orphans, now adults, who initially moved from Madagascar to Scotland and now reside in Singapore…
Hangman Blind
This first novel in a new mystery series introduces Sister Hildegard, a Cistercian nun who wants nothing more than to…
Souls of Angels
Sister Ria, a young nun who works with the poor in India, is abruptly called home to Los Angeles because…
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