HNR Issue 27 (February 2004)

A Christmas Journey

By Anne Perry - Published 2003

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Readers of Perry’s Pitt series will be familiar with Aunt Vespasia, one of my favorite Perry characters. This novella takes place prior ...Read Review

Snobbery with Violence

By Marion Chesney - Published 2003

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Mystery/Crime

This is the debut novel in veteran author Chesney’s new Edwardian mystery series. At its center is the detective duo of Lady ...Read Review

Me and Orson Welles

By Robert Kaplow - Published 2003

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Epic

Only 35 pages into this lyrical and magical one-week interlude in 17-year-old Richard Samuel’s life, even he recognizes the fact that he’s “...Read Review

Moon Tide

By Dawn Clifton Tripp - Published 2003

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Saga

If you enjoy reading stories of a place rather than of people, then this first novel is for you. But it is melancholy, ...Read Review

House of War

By Judith Tarr - Published 2003

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Alternate HistoryHistorical Fantasy

This is the second installment in Tarr’s historical fantasy series set in Jerusalem with Richard the Lionheart and his half-sister, Sioned, the ...Read Review

The Snow Fox

By Susan Fromberg Schaeffer - Published 2003

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Saga

Schaeffer was inspired by the film “The Seven Samurai” to research medieval Japan, according to her web site. This book is one of ...Read Review

Until You

By Bertrice Small - Published 2003

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Romance

Continuing the story of orphaned, thrice-married Rosamund Bolton, Lady of Friarsgate, this is the second offering in the Friarsgate Inheritance series. Determined to ...Read Review

Oscar Wilde Discovers America

By Louis Edwards - Published 2003

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Biographical Fiction

“I have … a black servant, who is my slave – in a free country one cannot live without a slave…” (Oscar Wilde, January 1882). Oscar ...Read Review

A Day to Pick Your Own Cotton

By Michael Phillips - Published 2003

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InspirationalSaga

The Civil War’s remote distance from present reality disappears with this sensitive yet realistic narrative story told by a plantation owner’s ...Read Review

The Fox’s Walk

By Annabel Davis-Goff - Published 2003

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Saga

The Fox’s Walk takes the reader to Ireland during the First World War, more specifically before and after the Easter Rising of 1916. ...Read Review