HNR Issue 19 (February 2002)
Eye of the Wind
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Cornwall, 1795. Melissa Tregonning, unconventional, beautiful but too tall for her time, tries to save her late father’s boatyard, which is encumbered by ...Read Review
Saintly Murders
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It is 1471. Kathryn Swinbrooke, an accomplished physician, is asked to investigate a recent plague of rats in Canterbury. But Kathryn is not in ...Read Review
The Thief-Taker: Memoirs of a Bow-Street Runner
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In June 1815, as Wellington’s army faces down the French somewhere in Belgium, in London the officers of Bow Street wage war against ...Read Review
The Contract Surgeon
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As an old man on the eve of WWII, Valentine McGillycuddy remembers an earlier conflict when he served as contract surgeon in the ...Read Review
The Magdalen
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How awful would it be to be an unwed mother in Ireland in the 1950s? According to Marita Conlon-McKenna, it would be awful ...Read Review
Justice Hall
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King’s sixth Russell/Holmes mystery involves the couple in the travails of friends from an earlier volume in the series (O Jerusalem), ...Read Review
All the King’s Men
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The most important thing about this “restored” edition of Penn Warren’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of 1946 is that it stands up very well ...Read Review
Savage: The Life and Times of Jemmy Button
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In 1830, Robert Fitzroy, commander of the Beagle, took on board his ship a young native from Tierra del Fuego, later called Jemmy Button. ...Read Review
No Eye Can See
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In this novel, second in a trilogy after All Together In One Place, a number of independent women seek to make their way ...Read Review
The Day Laid on the Altar
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Three artists weave the fabric of sixteenth century Italian artistic life in Bernardi’s intriguing novel: Bartolomeo, a peasant farmer who collects shards ...Read Review