HNR Issue 55 (February 2011)
Death and the Running Patterer
Nicodemus Dunne, formerly a Bow Street Runner, or policeman, is now a good-behavior convict in Sydney, Australia, making his living…
The Pirate’s Bastard
This short mid-18th century novel is awash in seafaring legal and piratical, secrets, courtship, blackmail and colonial history of North…
Panorama
Editors' choice
Originally published in German in 1968, and now finally (and finely) translated into English, Panorama is Prague author H. G.…
Jane and the Madness of Lord Byron
Jane Austen is getting old. In Barron’s tenth mystery featuring the author of Pride and Prejudice as amateur sleuth, Miss…
Dangerous to Know
In her latest book, set in Normandy, France in the late 1800s, Tasha Alexander has placed her previously successful heroine,…
Killer of Crying Deer
In 1669, an abducted youth is shipwrecked in the Florida Keys. Readers entering Henry’s world will encounter an unrelentingly detailed…
The Leaves of Fate
Between 1610 and 1630, the Jamestown settlement in the English colonies began to take shape – the colonists left the…
Ruso and the River of Darkness
The fourth novel in a series of historical mysteries set in the second century A.D., Caveat Emptor takes place in…
The Venetian Secret: 1620
This is the debut novel of Annemette Fogh, who has carried out research on primary documents, as well as drawing…
The Repentant Rake
In a London still recovering from the Great Fire, Christopher Redmayne is busy pursuing his architect’s career when his rakehell…
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