HNR Issue 43 (February 2008)
The Serpent’s Tale
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Adelia Aguilar is still in England after her detecting adventures as chronicled in Mistress of the Art of Death. King Henry II has ...Read Review
As High as the Heavens
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It is 1568, and a group of loyalists plan to rescue Mary Queen of Scots from her imprisonment in Lochleven Castle by boldly replacing ...Read Review
Troubled Waters
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This is the 14th in the Alan Lewrie series, Lewrie now being a captain in His Majesty’s Navy of the late 18th ...Read Review
Avenging Victorio
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The New Mexico Territory of the 1880s was a land in transition. American settlers were faced with a hostile country governed by ex-Union ...Read Review
The Expeditions
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Sixteen-year-old Elisha Stone is elated after joining a scientific expedition that is to explore Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. It is the spring of 1844, ...Read Review
The Straw Halter
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Betsy Salden was eleven years old when she was sent into service with Mrs. Wallasey, who taught her to read and write. At ...Read Review
A Noble Place
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Australia, 1850. The Noble family have recently arrived from England to begin their new life Down Under, where they hope to put their tainted ...Read Review
The Bloody Tower
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Intrepid freelance writer Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, a viscount’s daughter married to a Scotland Yard officer, ventures into the garrison of Her Majesty’...Read Review
Sway
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As I stood on the outside and watched the careers of musical groups like The Beatles and The Stones, I didn’t see ...Read Review
Hotel de Dream: A New York Novel
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Edmund White uses the life of Stephen Crane, author of The Red Badge of Courage, to present this interesting novel-within-a-novel. Crane is in ...Read Review