HNR Issue 48 (May 2009)
The Winter Ground
The latest Dandy Gilver mystery is set in Perthshire in 1925/26 on the estate of Albert Wilson, a wealthy brickmaker…
A Beautiful Place to Die
Editors' choice
South Africa, 1952. Detective Sergeant Emmanuel Cooper is sent to investigate the murder of Afrikaner police officer Captain Willem Pretorius…
Lark & Termite
It’s July 1950, and as Corporal Robert Leavitt commands a platoon in the Korean countryside, his thoughts wander to…
The Rescue Man
This is first novel of Anthony Quinn, film critic of The Independent, and a most impressive debut it is. Liverpool…
Shadow and Light
Hard-boiled chief inspector Nikolai Hoffner thinks he has seen all the dirt that 1927 Berlin has to offer until…
Burnt Shadows
Nagasaki, 9 August 1945. Hiroko Tanaka, daughter of a traitor, stands on her balcony watching the man she is…
South of the Border
Ireland 1942. Matt Duggan, fresh out of college, starts his first post as a teacher at the boys’ school…
Follow Me
If you enjoy family sagas layered with secrets and betrayal, stories which contain a host of entangled relationships and that…
Vienna Triangle
Vienna Triangle is not a mathematical puzzle but a complex human one. The novel opens in 1968 with Helene…
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