HNR Issue 40 (May 2007)
Blessings in Disguise
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When Nolan McKenna brings his sisters to Glasgow they are penniless. They pretend to be the long-lost relatives of Cissie Cassidy, a middle-aged ...Read Review
Band of Eagles
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Summer 1941. Malta is held by the British and is strategic for supplies and defence in the continuing war effort. Englishman Kit Curtis and ...Read Review
Death Called to the Bar
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In February 1902, during a feast at the Inns of Court, a senior barrister mysteriously dies. When a second man is shot dead, Lord ...Read Review
The Kommandant’s Girl
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Emma Bau has been married only a few weeks when the Germans smash into Poland. In a short time, her husband Jacob disappears ...Read Review
Whispers of Winter
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Alaska of the World War I years is the setting for this mix of adventure, romance and religious faith, the last of Peterson’...Read Review
Edward Trencom’s Nose
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Prepare yourself for olfactory gastronomy in the cheese department. Milton’s first novel provides the brain with stimulation of an extraordinary kind, particularly ...Read Review
The Silver Cup
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Anna lives in a small village between Speyer and Worms along the Rhine, and the time is 1095-96. Anna’s father is a ...Read Review
Red Moon at Sharpsburg
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Noted children’s author Wells takes on the Civil War in this coming-of-age novel set in the small town of Berryville, in the ...Read Review
Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West
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When one considers the central role the West played in the development of American history and popular culture, the relative paucity of historical ...Read Review
The Water Thief
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The Water Thief is a puzzle within a conundrum – an academic mystery turned deadly. In 304 C.E. Aelius Spartianus, commander in the army ...Read Review