HNR Issue 45 (August 2008)
Claudia: Daughter of Rome
Claudia: Daughter of Rome is set in the early years of the Roman Empire, when the empire is consolidating its…
Valfierno
In 1911, the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre in Paris. Two years later, an Italian carpenter tried to…
The Creator’s Map
The violent death of an aristocratic former Fascist and Nazi sympathiser in 1952 is the catalyst for this mystery story…
Texas Loving
Eden Maxwell, the youngest of twelve siblings, lives on her parents’ ranch near San Antonio. In 1887, when she is…
Relief
Katie is a young widow in Boston, 1912, struggling with lingering trauma from her husband’s death. She is also a…
The Blood of Caesar: A Second Case from the Notebooks of Pliny the Younger
I’m a fan of historical mysteries but hadn’t read Albert A. Bell’s work before, and was thrilled to discover this…
The Queen’s Sorrow
This novel tells the story of Rafael Prado, who is brought to England by Prince Philip of Spain to create…
Windstorm
It is wartime Cairo in 1916. Lea Attwood, an intrepid war correspondent, is in Egypt seeking news of her husband,…
Touching Distance
Based on a true story, this is an account of how Dr Alec Gordon struggles to understand how a mysterious…
The Salisbury Manuscript
In a Victorian world of stormy nights, the Slater family of Salisbury learns of a document written by a dissipated…
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