HNR Issue 48 (May 2009)
The Edge of Light
“No matter what I prepare for, life sends me something else.” Fate is not kind to Molly McGarvie in…
Drood
Editors' choice
In 1865, Charles Dickens, returning from a holiday with his mistress and her mother, is involved in the disastrous…
Lady Anne and the Howl in the Dark
When Lady Anne Addison receives a distressing letter from Lady Lydia Bestwick, she rushes to her close friend’s side—and…
An Invitation to Dance
An Invitation to Dance is a well-written and well-researched fictional biography of Lola Montez, an Irish-born woman who posed…
Blood Money
Blood Money is set in America during the Wall Street crash of 1929. Joe Quinn is a young detective…
The Great Lover
Editors' choice
The island of Tahiti holds a fascination for troubled souls. Gauguin lived there in the 1890s. So too, in…
East of the Sun
The start of this novel, set in 1928, finds Viva Hollaway, a young woman in her mid-twenties, trying to…
The German Woman
The German woman of the title is an English woman, Kate Zweig, a trained nurse married to a German surgeon,…
The Turtle Catcher
It opens with a shocking scene in 1920s Minnesota, in which the title character, Lester Sutter, a mentally handicapped…
Pictures at an Exhibition
A young man’s attempts to please a father he perceives as disparaging and indifferent form the core of this…
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