HNR Issue 46 (November 2008)

Veil of Lies

By Jeri Westerson - Published 2008

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

               Poor Crispin Guest!  In Jeri Westerson’s debut novel, set in 14th-century London and described as “a medieval noir,” Crispin is slapped, backhanded, ...Read Review

Dancing with Demons

By Peter Tremayne - Published 2007Published 2008

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In this 16th installment of Tremayne’s Fidelma of Cashel series, the High King of Ireland is killed at night in the middle ...Read Review

The King’s Gold

By Arturo Pérez-Reverte - Published 2008

Genres:

Adventure

King Philip IV, ruler of the Spanish empire in 1626, is expecting a large shipment of gold bullion from the West Indies. Swordsman-for-hire Captain ...Read Review

The Black Tower

By Louis Bayard - Published 2008

Genres:

LiteraryMystery/Crime

In 1818, a street beggar follows Hector Carpentier to his home in the Latin Quarter, only to transform himself into Vidocq, Paris’s master ...Read Review

Deep in the Heart of Trouble

By Deeanne Gist - Published 2008

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeRomanceWestern

In this sequel to Courting Trouble, set in 1898 Corsicana, Texas, Essie Spreckelmeyer, well into her thirties, is no longer hunting a husband. Instead, ...Read Review

Jane Eyre’s Daughter

By Elizabeth Newark - Published 2008

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeRomance

Originally published in 1997 as Consequence, Jane Eyre’s Daughter tells, as the title suggests, the tale of Janet Rochester, only daughter of Jane ...Read Review

Little Hut of Leaping Fishes

By Chiew-Siah Tei - Published 2008

Genres:

Saga

This is the story of Minghzi, the first grandson of Master Chai, a feudal landlord and opium farmer who is determined that Minghzi ...Read Review

The Glimmer Palace

By Beatrice Colin - Published 2008

Genres:

Saga

It’s impossible not to wish Lilly Nelly Aphrodite well. The protagonist of The Glimmer Palace is a spirited, resourceful, and keen-eyed child ...Read Review

Queen of the Flowers

By Kerry Greenwood - Published 2008

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Phryne Fisher, a seemingly flighty, iconoclastic philanthropist, is hardly flummoxed when a former friend from the circus drops by for tea in her ...Read Review

A Manuscript of Ashes

By Antonio Muñoz Molina (trans. Edith Grossman) - Published 2008

Genres:

LiteraryMystery/CrimeRomance

Resolving to flee the tumult of the university in the late 1960s, Minaya, a young student, decides to leave Madrid and write his ...Read Review

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