HNR Issue 52 (May 2010)
Letter to My Daughter
Laura and her teenage daughter Liz are fighting, and Liz has run away from the family home. While she waits…
The Stolen Crown
The story of Elizabeth Woodville and Edward IV has been told hundreds of times, but never quite the way that…
Infamous
George “Machine Gun” Kelly was one of the well known, but curiously now forgotten gangsters of the lawless Midwest in…
A Razor Wrapped in Silk
St Petersburg 1870. The Tsar has instituted reforms which for many go too far, while for others not nearly far…
Quest for a Killer
This is the fifth novel featuring private investigator Rose McQuinn, daughter of Inspector Faro. The circus is in town, and…
Becoming Jane Eyre
In 1846, the educated but unworldly daughter of a Yorkshire clergyman begins writing a novel. It is not her first…
The Wives of Henry Oades
The Wives of Henry Oades is an engrossing late 19th-century tale of unwitting bigamy. Henry and Margaret Oades move from…
The Elusive Bride
The story begins in 1822 on the road from Poona to Bombay. Members of the Black Cobra, desperate to get…
Walking to Gatlinburg
Part tall tale, part historical fiction, this book opens in northern Vermont in 1864 when young abolitionist Morgan Kinneson neglects…
My Name is Mary Sutter
Editors' choice
Mary Sutter dreams of becoming a surgeon. She, along with her mother, serves as a midwife for the women of…
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