HNR Issue 47 (February 2009)
The High City
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This novel continues Holland’s Viking series. Raef Corbansson is grieving the loss of his cousin Conn, who lies dead back in Kiev. ...Read Review
Crown in Candlelight
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Originally published in 1978, Crown in Candlelight covers a tumultuous period of English and French history between 1405 and 1461. This is the story of Katherine ...Read Review
Garlands of Gold
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Set in 17th-century Rotterdam, this is the tale of Saskia, a lady’s maid to a wealthy merchant’s wife. Saskia’s real ...Read Review
Pryde and the Infernal Device
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This novel continues the adventures of engineer, Matthew Pryde, which began in Pryde’s Rock (see HNR 39, Feb. 2007). In the spring of 1805, Matthew, ...Read Review
Envoy of the Black Pine
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‘This is a very strange book,’ I was told after I had agreed to review it. It moves between the Cotswolds and the ...Read Review
The Detective Wore Silk Drawers
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The second of Peter Lovesey’s Victorian mysteries (now reissued) plunges Sergeant Cribb and Constable Thackery into the underworld of bare-knuckled pugilism. In 1880, ...Read Review
North Star
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In 1870, legendary trail guide and former mountain man Barnaby Skye realized that the West he knew and loved was coming to an end. ...Read Review
The Eleventh Man
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In 1941, the Montana State College starting eleven all entered into military service. Each lost his life in that great effort. This is the ...Read Review
The Lost Throne
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Built high on the natural rock of Thessaly in Greece are a series of six monasteries, once there were more. The monks who ...Read Review
Foxfire
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This novel, first published in 1951, is set in New York City and the Arizona in the 1930s. Amanda Lawrence, a sheltered young woman, ...Read Review
