HNR Issue 61 (August 2012)
Dead Men
Dual-time novels seem to be in vogue these days. Some feel contrived and out of balance, shifting mechanically between decades…
Waratah House
On a ship to Australia in the 1880s, Marina is orphaned after a fever outbreak and is taken into the…
The Dream of the Celt
The opening chapter presents Roger Casement under a sentence of death for treason because of his efforts to recruit Irish…
The History Room
Almost the only history in this novel is in the title. It is a modern mystery with the origins going…
Into Dust and Fire
In the spring of 1941, before Pearl Harbor, before American committed itself to involvement in World War II, a cadre…
The Virgin Cure
Editors' choice
Ami McKay’s second novel is set in the tenements of lower Manhattan about five years after the end of the…
The Tintern Treasure
Roger Chapman is a peddler who has, quite by accident, become an agent of King Richard III. His reputation as…
Through Rushing Water
Richmond’s sophomore novel portrays life on an 1870s Native American reservation that the reader won’t soon forget. Russian immigrant Sophia…
Commedia della Morte
The 25th volume in Chelsea Quinn Yarbro’s venerated Saint-Germain series finds the vampire in Revolutionary France on a rescue mission…
Bedding Lord Ned
Venus Valentine, Duchess of Greycliffe, was born on St. Valentine’s Day, as were her three sons, and every year she…
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