HNR Issue 43 (February 2008)

All for Love

By Amanda Elyot - Published 2008

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Elyot has written three fictional memoirs about women whose passions ruled their lives. Like Helen of Troy (The Memoirs of Helen of Troy) ...Read Review

Wizard’s Daughter

By Catherine Coulter - Published 2007

Genres:

Historical FantasyMystery/CrimeRomance

Catherine Coulter mesmerizes readers with a blend of history, fantasy, and a touch of the paranormal in her tenth book in the Brides ...Read Review

An Infamous Army: A Novel of Wellington, Waterloo, Love and War

By Georgette Heyer - Published 2004Published 2007

Genres:

MilitaryRomance

This is a well-documented account of the Battle of Waterloo from the British army’s point of view. The social events surrounding and ...Read Review

Whispers Along the Rails

By Judith Miller - Published 2007

Genres:

Saga

In this, Miller’s second novel set in the 1890’s “company town” of Pullman, Illinois, Olivia Mott is not only working as an ...Read Review

The Cliff House Strangler

By Shirley Tallman - Published 2007

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

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

By Michael Dobbs - Published 2004Published 2007

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

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

By Laurie R. King - Published 2008

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

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

By Frank Tallis - Published 2008

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

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

By Veronica Bennett - Published 2007

Genres:

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

By Lisa Klein - Published 2006Published 2007

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

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