HNR Issue 51 (February 2010)
The Cemetery of Secrets
In the cemetery of San Michele a corpse is exhumed. Rizzo has been paid to supervise this grisly task and…
Memory of Flames
When Lieutenant Colonel Margont is ordered by Joseph Bonaparte to investigate the murder of a colonel charged with drawing up…
Dream of Reason
Rosa Chacel is a Spanish modernist writer whose novel explores the meaning of thought, language, reason, and the emotions as…
Fallen Angel
This Regency romance set in Wales and London opens with the Demon Earl, Nicolas the Gypsy Earl of Aberdare, being…
The Betrayal
As the novel begins we are straight away in the world of Elizabethan London as Lucy waits with her two…
Call Me Ahab
These nine short stories mix fact and fiction, and most of them concern historical characters with physical disabilities. One of…
The Convict’s Sword: A Mystery of Eleventh-Century Japan
I. J. Parker continues her series of medieval Japanese mysteries featuring nobleman Sugawara Akitada. This latest installment finds Akitada living…
The Devil & Maria d’Avalos
The year is 1590; the setting rich with art, magnificent architecture, lavish costumes. Yet all is not right in Denmark……
The Country House Courtship
It’s 1818, and Miss Beatrice Forsythe wants to go toLondon. She wants to marry a man like the rich, titled…
Daughter of Kura
Over half a million years ago on the plains of Africa, the ancient ancestors of humans—the species known today as…
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