HNR Issue 48 (May 2009)
A Mad Desire to Dance
This elegiac novel follows Doriel, a man who fears he is either mad or possessed by a dybukk, and Dr.…
Cutting for Stone
Born in 1954 to an Indian Carmelite nun and a promising British surgeon in an Ethiopian hospital, Marion Stone narrates…
Tainted Tree
This rambling book, which was sent to me for review as a historical novel, is set in 1991 and the…
An Incomplete Revenge
As a Maisie Dobbs newcomer, for me this book was a revelation. It is fresh, unpretentious, and totally gripping. Unlike…
What Would Jane Austen Do?
Eleanor Pottinger has traveled to England for a Jane Austen convention. Rather than giving her costume history lecture as she’d…
Twelve
This book is described in the publicity as ‘genre breaking’ and the ‘first Napoleonic historical vampire novel’. I do not…
Twelve
Set in 1812, this book tells the story of Napoleon’s assault on Moscow. Russian city after Russian city has fallen…
Cast the First Stone
Trinidad (Trini) Bates is a dowser, which means that she uses either a crystal pendulum or a divining rod…
The Sacred Well
The Sacred Well is the story of two strong women: Sage Sanborn, a fictitious travel reporter in the present…
An Honorable German
Charles McCain’s maiden voyage as a novelist follows a young German naval officer, Max Brekendorf, through his varied assignments in…
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