HNR Issue 20 (May 2002)

A Potion for a Widow

By Caroline Roe - Published 2001

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In the fifth installment of the Chronicles of Isaac of Girona, the blind Jewish physician decidedly takes a back seat, as though you ...Read Review

Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper

By Harriet Scott Chessman - Published 2001

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

  This jewel of a novel centers on five paintings Mary Cassatt made of her older sister Lydia between 1878 and 1881. Lydia was Mary’...Read Review

The Quest

By Jim Kraus - By Terri Kraus - Published 2002

Genres:

AdventureInspirational

Pittsburgh, 1841: Jamison Pike has been accepted at Harvard. His judgmental pastor father is opposed to him attending that den of vice and dangerous ...Read Review

Tallapoosa

By Larry Williamson - Published 2001

Genres:

The novel takes place in the Tallapoosa River region of present-day Alabama in 1813. Settlers are stirring up the native tribes, called Creeks since ...Read Review

Wild Life

By Molly Gloss - Published 2001

Genres:

AdventureMystery/Crime

Wild Life charts the life of Charlotte Bridger Drummond, a rather freethinking woman. The action takes place in the Pacific Northwest logging towns ...Read Review

Murder at the President’s Door

By Elliott Roosevelt - Published 2001

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

A dead body is found just outside President Roosevelt’s door. Preferring that the murder be kept from the public, First Lady Eleanor ...Read Review

The Dragon Queen

By Alice Borchardt - Published 2001

Genres:

Historical Fantasy

Sometime in the Dark Ages, a girl is born, a child of prophecy and high destiny. This child, Guinevere, is raised far from ...Read Review