HNR Issue 38 (November 2006)
Cruel Music
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Third in her series of Baroque mysteries, Beverle Graves Myers’s Cruel Music finds Venetian castrato Tito Amato involved in the machinations to ...Read Review
Deceived
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Isabella, English widow of a wastrel foreign prince, is deep in debt. She intends to marry a nobleman so fixed in debtors’ prison ...Read Review
Act Of Love
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On her first day at work as a cleaner at the Palace theatre, Swansea, Ella Burton meets Anthony Weatherby Nichols and falls in ...Read Review
The Book Of True Desires
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Krahn’s second in her Book series (following The Book of the Seven Delights) puts a feminist spin on the adventure tales in ...Read Review
The Limehouse Text
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The adventures of Thomas Llewelyn, assistant to Victorian-era “enquiry agent” (private detective) Cyrus Barker, continue with a search through London’s Chinese district ...Read Review
The Whistling Season
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When Paul’s widower father decides to answer an advertisement in the Westwater Gazette (“Can’t cook but doesn’t bite: Housekeeping position ...Read Review
Witch Cradle
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Although set in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula in 1950, Hunter’s Dance, Kathleen Hills’ previous book in her John McIntire series, could have taken ...Read Review
The Flowers Of Ballygrace
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Set in the 1950s Ireland, this novel traces how love and loss shape the emotional growth of Kate Flowers, her wayward brother and ...Read Review
The Woman In The Picture
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James Wilson’s third novel is set in the late 1920s and 1930s with current day interpolations which become increasingly important as the ...Read Review
Sea Witch
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I really wanted to read Helen Hollick’s latest book; an historical fantasy involving pirates and a white witch served up with lashings ...Read Review