HNR Issue 47 (February 2009)
The Organ Grinder
The latest book in the Dutchman Historical Mystery series by husband-and-wife team Martin and Annette Meyers (writing as Maan Meyers)…
The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet
Whatever became of Mary Bennet, the middle sister of the five young ladies memorialized in Pride and Prejudice? Not nearly…
The Long Knives Are Crying
This second book in Joseph Marshall’s Lakota Westerns series tells the story of Custer’s Last Stand from the Lakota viewpoint.…
Wobble to Death
It is a cold November morning in 1879 and a dozen ‘pedestrians’ in silk drawers and white tights gather at…
The Detective Wore Silk Drawers
The second of Peter Lovesey’s Victorian mysteries (now reissued) plunges Sergeant Cribb and Constable Thackery into the underworld of bare-knuckled…
Secret Bride
Damion Templeton, Viscount Woodhurst, is experiencing a problem all too common in Regency romance novels—to satisfy his dying grandmother he…
The Scent of Sake
Lebra’s debut is a biographical novel of Rie, the sole heir of the House of Omura, a sake-brewing family in…
The DeVere Papers
The De Vere Papers is set in 1868, at a fictional college in Cambridge. The papers in question throw doubt…
The Baltic Gambit
The Royal Navy’s incorrigible Alan Lewrie has been outsmarting and outfighting Britain’s enemies while simultaneously practicing adultery on a Herculean…
Etta
Very little is known about Etta Place, the lover of the Sundance Kid. In this warm, deftly plotted novel, Gerald…
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