HNR Issue 41 (August 2007)
The Dante Trap
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In his cell in a noisome dungeon languishes The Black Orchid,Venice’s most dashing swordsman, secret agent and lover. But he is ...Read Review
Bitter Inheritance
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Sally Mason faces losing her farm home when her parents die leaving her penniless. In spite of her pleas her landlord, Oliver Radford, ...Read Review
On the Wrong Track
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Cowboy detectives Gustav (“Old Red”) and Otto (“Big Red”) Amlingmeyer are back, and the Southern Pacific Railroad’s got them in this rollicking ...Read Review
All the Tea in China
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Isabella Goodrich is a singular woman. Raised by her uncle, an Oxford Dean, she is a swordswoman and scholar. Since both of these ...Read Review
Her Royal Spyness
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Bowen, author of the Molly Murphy mystery series, starts a new series with this book, featuring the engaging Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie. ...Read Review
The Gift of Rain
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In 1939 sixteen-year-old Philip, the half Chinese, half English son of a prominent Malay businessman, forms an unlikely friendship with a Japanese diplomat who ...Read Review
An Eye for Murder
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Beginning with an exchange between two men in Prague in August 1944, the book proceeds to explore the ramifications of these events in the ...Read Review
The Ghost of Mary Prairie
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Jake Leeds and Mikey Savage are best friends, both 15 years old, although Mikey is a few weeks older— entitling him to subject Jake ...Read Review
The Rossetti Letter
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Contemporary Harvard grad student Claire Donovan and Venetian courtesan Alessandra Rossetti are heroines of parallel tales told in alternating chapters. The stunning beauty ...Read Review
Petals in the Ashes
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1665. In this sequel to At the Sign of the Sugared Plum, sisters Sarah and Hannah escape from plague-ridden London, together with baby Grace, ...Read Review
