HNR Issue 52 (May 2010)
Quest for a Killer
This is the fifth novel featuring private investigator Rose McQuinn, daughter of Inspector Faro. The circus is in town, and…
Sons of Thunder
This is the second book of the Raven series, and it follows on closely from the first adventure. Raven and…
The Irresistible Henry House
Henry House is an orphan, yet he has many mothers. He is what was known as a “practice baby” in…
The Silent Governess
In mid-19th century Britain, an imminent threat causes Olivia Keene to flee her home, separating her from the mother she…
The Sword of Medina
In 7th-century Arabia, the Prophet Muhammad is dead, and the Muslim umma is left to muddle on as best it…
The Hidden Heart of Emily Hudson
As a devoted reader of Henry James, I was drawn to this book by the Jamesian feel of even…
Bloodroot
Editors' choice
Byrdie Lamb was said to be one of those witches from Chickweed Holler, one who, as they say, had “the…
The Divine Sacrifice
This is the second novel in a series of mysteries set in King Arthur’s Britain during the 5th century. In…
Gloryland
Born in 1863 of mixed black and Indian blood to a sharecropper’s family, Elijah Yancy of Spartanburg, South Carolina, lives…
Scandal at the Dower House
When Catarina’s elderly husband dies she moves into the Dower House to make way for the new Earl of Rasen,…
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