HNR Issue 15 (February 2001)

When We Were Gods: The Story of Cleopatra

By Colin Falconer - Published 2000

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Here is yet another novel about the last of the Ptolemy pharaohs, Cleopatra. Young when the reins of rulership are placed in her ...Read Review

The Last Days of Summer

By Steve Kluger - Published 1999

Genres:

At its core, this is a simple tale of a boy and a man whose paths meet and merge, to the betterment of ...Read Review

Forty Testoons

By Alan Fisk - Published 1999

Genres:

Adventure

Forty Testoons is a story full of personal and political conflict. Father Ralph Fletcher, a young English priest, is offered his first post ...Read Review

Murder Me Now

By Annette Meyers - Published 2001

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

This is Meyers’ second mystery featuring Olivia Brown, a Greenwich Village poet in Prohibition 1920s. A nanny is murdered during a country house ...Read Review

Lords of the Ocean (Revolution at Sea Trilogy #4)

By James L. Nelson - Published 2000

Genres:

AdventureNauticalSaga

Novelists that sail in waters blessed by the genius of C.S. Forester and Patrick O’Brien place themselves in as much peril ...Read Review

Thunder on the Mountain: A Novel of 1936 (Hemlock County)

By David Poyer - Published 2000

Genres:

Adventure

The “Thunder” of the titles can be explained in at least different ways. (1) Thunder Oil of Pennsylvania, a family dynasty under the control ...Read Review

All the Brave Fellows (Revolution at Sea Saga)

By James L. Nelson - Published 2000

Genres:

AdventureNauticalSaga

Novelists that sail in waters blessed by the genius of C.S. Forester and Patrick O’Brian place themselves in as much peril ...Read Review

A Citizen of the Country

By Sarah Smith - Published 2000

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeSagaThriller

Fantasize about reading a novel in Paris, Boston, but mostly in and around the city of Arras, in northern France, a region commonly ...Read Review

Eagle’s Cry: A Novel

By David Nevin - Published 2000

Genres:

AdventureMilitary

In the year 1799, the citizens of the United States of America have emerged from the shadow of British tyranny. Yet there is strong ...Read Review

These Granite Islands

By Sarah Stonich - Published 2000

Genres:

Literary

It’s 1999 and Isobel Howard is 99 years old. She knows she is dying, and she is taking one last look back at the ...Read Review