HNR Issue 48 (May 2009)
The Alchemy of Murder
Set in Paris during the Exposition of 1889, this historical crime novel takes the well-known American journalist Nellie Bly as…
The Rose of Sebastopol
In The Rose of Sebastopol the horrors of the Crimean War are described by a most unlikely narrator—Mariella Lingwood, a…
Galway Bay
Editors' choice
Ireland, 1848: Blight has killed the potato crop for the third time in four years, there’s no work or food,…
The Apothecary’s Daughter
Lilly Haswell, an apothecary’s daughter from the village of Bedsley Priors, feels her luck has turned when her previously unknown…
Sierra Ransom
Zenobia “Zee” Gray is the owner of a restaurant catering to rough, untamed miners during the California gold rush. When…
Zulu Hart
George Hart is the illegitimate son of a half-Irish, half-Zulu actress and a pillar of the British military establishment. His…
Waterlily
Waterlily is the child of Blue Bird. Her mother gives birth to her alone, during a long march. Blue Bird’s…
The Dakota Cipher
A highly entertaining quest tale, The Dakota Cipher finds American adventurer Ethan Gage on a mission in the Louisiana Territory…
Dust and Shadow: An Account of the Ripper Killings by Dr John H. Watson
If Sherlock Holmes had been real rather than just a work of fiction, his expertise would have most certainly been…
The Branch and the Scaffold
This novel is based on the true story of the infamous “hanging judge,” Judge Isaac Parker. In 1875 Parker arrives…
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