HNR Issue 43 (February 2008)
The Cliff House Strangler
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In this, Tallman’s third Sarah Woolson mystery, the spunky late 19th-century attorney deals with the titled investigation while working to establish her ...Read Review
Never Surrender
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Of all the iconic images of the Second World War, none is more etched in the public mind than the picture of a ...Read Review
Touchstone
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Laurie R. King gave us the brilliant recreation of Sherlock Holmes with more depth than Conan Doyle ever mustered in her Mary Russell ...Read Review
Vienna Blood
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In this, the second installment of the Liebermann Papers, Tallis, a practicing clinical psychologist, beautifully evokes the upheaval in the highest echelons of ...Read Review
Cassandra’s Sister
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
Cassandra’s Sister opens in revolutionary Paris as a young man is guillotined. In due time, his English widow, Eliza, makes her way ...Read Review
Ophelia
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Ophelia’s story emanates from the Shakespearian play Hamlet. This is what might have happened to Ophelia if she had survived. Born of ...Read Review
Twilight at Monticello: The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson
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At the age of sixty-six, Thomas Jefferson left the presidency and retired to his beloved home in Monticello. He died, famously on the 4...Read Review
The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street
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In 1612 Shakespeare gave evidence at the Court of Requests in Westminster. Eight years previously he had lodged with the Mountjoys, a family of ...Read Review
Najila
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Najila is the daughter of a Persian Muslim princess and a Byzantine Orthodox diplomat in 11th-century Baghdad. Orphaned at the age of seventeen, ...Read Review
The Reavers
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The Reavers is a saucy fantasy romp in the vein of MacDonald Fraser’s Pyrates. It is set in the border region of ...Read Review
