HNR Issue 46 (November 2008)
The Walls of Cartagena
Set in 1639 during the pivotal year between the narrator’s 13th and 14th birthdays, this is an adventure tale bursting…
I am Rembrandt’s Daughter
This complex work of fiction is based upon the real person of Cornelia, the illegitimate daughter of Rembrandt van Rijn…
Nathan Fox: Traitor’s Gold
(1) 1587. King Philip of Spain rules much of Europe, and he has England in his sights. Two things are…
Cavalryman of the Lost Cause: A Biography of J.E.B. Stuart
“Jeb” Stuart was one of the most brilliant and colorful personalities in U.S. military history. Jeffrey Wert is one of…
Kaleidoscope
Set at the end of the Roaring 1920s in a noir West Coast Florida, this grizzly mystery with literary aspirations…
A Difficult Boy
In 1843, nine-year-old Ethan is indentured to Mr. Lyman, a wealthy Massachusetts shopkeeper. Ethan must work with Daniel, an older…
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
In 1860 in England, a middle-class family’s three-year-old son disappears. After a brief search, he is found dead in an…
Worldwide Adventures in Love
In her fifth novel, Wener examines the influence of scandal on personal relationships in two very distinct periods of British…
The Man with the Iron Heart
SS Obergruppenfürher Reinhard Heydrich easily qualifies as one of the leading sociopaths produced by a Third Reich, which possessed them…
Full-Court Quest
In the late 1800s, the United States government established boarding schools for Native American children with the intent of assimilating…
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