HNR Issue 24 (May 2003)
The Heroic Garrison
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The Indian Mutiny of 1857-1858 is a watershed event in the history of British India. A rebellion by regiments of the British-officered units ...Read Review
Mistletoe and Murder
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In the eleventh book of Carola Dunn’s Daisy Dalrymple series, Daisy and her family are invited to spend Christmas of 1923 at Brockdene, ...Read Review
Tourmaline
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In her most recent novel, Joanna Scott sweeps the reader back to the mid-1950s, a time of prosperity for most Americans. However, ...Read Review
As Sure as the Dawn
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Somebody asked me recently why I enjoy inspirational fiction so much as I am not religious myself. Any writer who lives in a ...Read Review
Captain from Castile
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The novel begins in 1518. At nineteen, Pedro de Vargas is about to enter Spanish society as a young caballero. Over the next few ...Read Review
Mr. Lincoln’s Wars
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Not a novel in the usual sense of the word, Mr. Lincoln’s Wars consists of thirteen short stories. Insulated in characters, plot ...Read Review
Promise and Honor
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Amanda Graham is widowed when her Confederate husband dies a hero’s death on the battlefield of Manassas at the outbreak of the ...Read Review
Almost a Princess
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This Regency-era romance is thick with plot, flimsy in characterization and period flair, and sprinkled with anachronism. Case Devere, Lord Castleton, assists the ...Read Review
Yesterday’s Enemies
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Description and characterization build the story of a young girl who is glad to be alive, yet sad that her country’s own ...Read Review
Bridge of Sighs
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Emil Brod is fresh from the academy when he is appointed homicide detective for the People’s Militia in an area liberated from ...Read Review