HNR Issue 60 (May 2012)
Titanic: Death on the Water
Here the familiar story is told from the point of view of dockyard boy Billy who has seen the Titanic…
Hush Now, Don’t You Cry
Irish immigrant Molly Murphy (now Molly Sullivan) returns in her eleventh outing in Bowen’s series. In the fall of 1903,…
The Legacy of Eden
Meredith Pincetti thought that she had escaped her family by changing her name and moving from Iowa to New York.…
Heart of Gold
In 1864, Shannon Adair dutifully accompanies her minister father to his new church in the gold rush town of Grand…
A Dark Anatomy
Robin Blake’s latest novel, set in 18th-century Lancashire, takes the reader on a journey through time and technique. Blake deftly…
The Shadow Collector’s Apprentice
This middle-grade novel is set in early 1960s small town America. Twelve-year-old Cully Pennyacre lives with his Aunt Incandescence, who…
Thorn
Thorn is a fictional account of a friendship between the philosopher Baruch Spinoza and Rembrandt Van Rijn, the great Dutch…
The Mysterium: A Hugh Corbett Mystery
The 17th entry in the Sir Hugh Corbett medieval mysteries opens with a “locked cell” murder of a much-hated, highly…
Trapeze
Simon Mawer’s (The Glass Room) latest gift to his avid followers is the first of a projected two-volume novel about…
Forsaking All Others
In this continuation of the “Sister Wife” series, Pittman continues the story of Camilla Fox, whose flight from her Mormon…
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