HNR Issue 46 (November 2008)
Veil of Lies
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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