HNR Issue 40 (May 2007)
Cold Cache
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Kent Rasmussen, an officer of the North West Mounted Police, is leaving the force to return home to his mother and sister in ...Read Review
Voices of the Night
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Former pickpocket and secret murderess Maggie King has run afoul of London’s most notorious criminal. She and her “chavies,” the motley group ...Read Review
The River Knows
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It’s late in the reign of Queen Victoria when a young businesswoman decides she must make herself disappear. Fortunately, there have been ...Read Review
The Gentle Wind’s Caress
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Orphaned Isabelle will do anything to escape her Halifax, Yorkshire workhouse, where she is harassed by Neville, the matron’s son. She enters ...Read Review
The Midwife of St. Petersburg
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This story takes place amidst the turmoil of 1914 Czarist Russia. Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Serbia has recently been assassinated, and war is imminent. ...Read Review
A Stranger in Burracombe
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This sugary saga, set in a Devon village, opens in February 1952 with the arrival of a young woman, Jennifer Tucker, who it later ...Read Review
The Rebels
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The Rebels tells the story of a group of young men on the eve of their graduation from a boy’s academy. Unfortunately, ...Read Review
A False Mirror
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Ninth in Todd’s series featuring Inspector Ian Rutledge, a Scotland Yard inspector and shell-shocked veteran of the Great War, this outing finds ...Read Review
Journey to the Alamo
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Seventh-grade teacher Mr. Barrington proffers a trunk full of historical artifacts to help Hannah Taylor write a report on Texas history. The trunk ...Read Review
I Am the Great Horse
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This is the story of Alexander the Great as told by his warhorse, Bucephalus. It is also the story of Bucephalus’s devoted ...Read Review
