HNR Issue 68 (May 2014)
The Dark Palace: A Silas Quinn Mystery
Detective Inspector Silas Quinn heads the Special Crimes Unit of New Scotland Yard, using the burgeoning technology of the early…
The Northmen’s Fury: A History of the Viking World
The author has achieved the subtitle’s description in 340 pages (excluding the extensive notes, etc). ‘The situation became very complicated,’…
Train: Riding the Rails That Created the Modern World, from the Trans-Siberian to the Southwest Chief
“From the Trans-Siberian to the Southwest Chief” is part of this book’s subtitle, so readers can look forward to a…
The Forgotten Seamstress
Editors' choice
Two women’s stories are interwoven in this dual-period novel about love, loss, and betrayal. Readers get pieces of two women’s…
Whispers of Vivaldi
Tito Amato is back, and this time he has a plan to save his beloved Teatro San Marco: A new…
A Match Made in Texas
Heaven help the residents of Dry Gulch, Texas when one of their own decides to play matchmaker! This sweet collection…
The China Memoirs of Thomas Rowley
Based on the once lost memoirs of Thomas Rowley, this novel takes the reader on an erotic and subservient journey…
London Calling
1952. Sixty years ago, the changes imposed by the war years had worked their way deep into the psyche of…
Churchill’s First War
What many people know about Winston Churchill centers on his stirring leadership during WWII as Britain’s Prime Minister. Here Con…
Sheila
Sheila was born Sheila Chisholm, daughter of a wealthy Australian rancher, and came to England in 1913 to become successively…
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