HNR Issue 22 (November 2002)

Avishag

By Yael Lotan - Published 2002

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

David, the first king of the ancient kingdom of Israel, lies dying – but not in peace. His ambitious sons contend for the throne, ...Read Review

Versailles

By Kathryn Davis - Published 2002

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Kathryn Davis makes use of a clever narrative device in this, her fifth novel: she allows Marie Antoinette’s soul to speak. This ...Read Review

Wet Grave

By Barbara Hambly - Published 2002

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Once Hesione LeGros was a high-flyer, a corsair’s beautiful mistress. But that was twenty years ago, during the heyday of such buccaneers ...Read Review

Eye of the Bear

By Naida West - Published 2001

Genres:

Western

Eye of the Bear, the prequel to the author’s earlier novel River of Red Gold, relates the history of early California during ...Read Review

Blood of Victory

By Alan Furst - Published 2002

Genres:

MilitaryThriller

This latest tale from Furst opens on the Black Sea in November of 1940. Once again a man without a country, this time Russian ...Read Review

Highland Mercies

By Gary E. Parker - Published 2002

Genres:

InspirationalSaga

This highly recommended sequel to the first novel in the Blue Ridge Legacy series, Highland Hopes, thrusts Abigail Porter Waterbury into responsibility for ...Read Review

Cities of Gold

By William K. Hartmann - Published 2002

Genres:

Set both in 1989 and 1549, but almost entirely in the American Southwest, this tells the story, supported by extracts of actual primary-source documents, of ...Read Review

Imperial Governor

By George Shipway - Published (c1968)Published 2002

Genres:

Military

The narrator is the Roman general and Governor of Britain, Suetonius Paulinus. In 59 A.D. the Emperor Nero posts him to Britain with ...Read Review

All Roads Lead to Murder

By Albert A. Bell jr. - Published 2002

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

There’s a new detective to add to the ranks of historical mystery, and his name is Pliny the Younger. All Roads Lead ...Read Review

Domino

By Ross King - Published 2002

Genres:

Literary

In his novel of masquerades and the blurring of gender characteristics, Ross King does an admirable job of recreating the idiom and the ...Read Review