HNR Issue 60 (May 2012)
Where the Broken Heart Still Beats
Nine-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker’s family had been settled in Texas for two years when their home was raided by Comanche…
Death of an Empire
This is the second instalment in M.K. Hume’s Merlin Trilogy. Keen to uncover his father’s identity, but also driven by…
The O’Briens
Behrens follows up his Governor General’s award-winning Law of Dreams with a multi-generational family saga. At the turn of the…
Watergate
When a reader chooses to delve into the political historical quagmire that surrounded the Watergate scandal, there are a plethora…
The Queen’s Secret
In 1575, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, drains his coffers to put on an Entertainment at Kenilworth Castle for Queen…
The Book of Madness and Cures
Editors' choice
That this is a book of madness is immediately obvious; Doctor Ernesto Mondini has become unhinged. His final letter arrives…
Paradise Misplaced
As the son of the wealthiest man in Mexico, Captain Benjamín Nyman can have it all. And, in the days…
The Columbus Affair
This is a conspiracy thriller, a Quest that keeps closely to the rules of the genre, rules which Steve Berry…
The Settlers of Catan
The people of Elasund love their homeland, but life is a struggle. Long winters make for a short growing season,…
Oscar Wilde and the Vatican Murders
Editors' choice
If the first four novels of Gyles Brandreth’s series of Victorian murder mysteries had never existed to whet our appetites…
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