HNR Issue 19 (February 2002)
The Good Men: A Novel of Heresy
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In 1320, the Inquisition asked Grazida Lizier, a young widow from Montaillou, France, to testify about her views of God and Satan, as well ...Read Review
The Riddle of the Shipwrecked Spinster
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Miss Cordelia Stansbury succeeds in setting tongues to wagging twice in a year – first when she snags the ton’s most eligible bachelor, ...Read Review
Treason
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Aaron Burr is a man who thinks big, especially about himself. Always ready to grab the gold ring when it passes by, he ...Read Review
Mamzelle Dragonfly
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Mamzelle Dragonfly describes the turmoil of Martinique in the 1950s when the island sought independence from France. The novel, written in Creole and ...Read Review
Victim of the Aurora
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Expeditions to the South Pole were the rage at the beginning of the twentieth century. Men braved extreme conditions to conquer the unknown ...Read Review
Sophie and the Rising Sun
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In 1939, Mr. Oto arrives in Salty Creek, Georgia, by accident. Taken off the bus because he is ill, he is nursed back to ...Read Review
The Steel Bonnets: The Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers
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Himself a child of the Borders, Fraser writes with an insider’s love and a scholar’s knowledge, taking us from the very ...Read Review
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