HNR Issue 48 (May 2009)
The Stalin Epigram
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The author of The Stalin Epigram is an American who has lived abroad for many years and written spy thrillers set in the ...Read Review
Drood
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Biographical FictionMystery/Crime
In 1865, Charles Dickens, returning from a holiday with his mistress and her mother, is involved in the disastrous railway accident at Staplehurst. ...Read Review
The Great Lover
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The island of Tahiti holds a fascination for troubled souls. Gauguin lived there in the 1890s. So too, in the early months ...Read Review
Cast the First Stone
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Trinidad (Trini) Bates is a dowser, which means that she uses either a crystal pendulum or a divining rod to find things ...Read Review
Lady Anne and the Howl in the Dark
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Historical FantasyMystery/CrimeRomance
When Lady Anne Addison receives a distressing letter from Lady Lydia Bestwick, she rushes to her close friend’s side—and is ...Read Review
The Sound of Building Coffins
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In 1891 New Orleans, a black preacher named Noonday Morningstar, with the help of his son Typhus, saves the infant child of a Sicilian ...Read Review
An Invitation to Dance
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An Invitation to Dance is a well-written and well-researched fictional biography of Lola Montez, an Irish-born woman who posed as a Spanish ...Read Review
The Sacred Well
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The Sacred Well is the story of two strong women: Sage Sanborn, a fictitious travel reporter in the present day, and Alma ...Read Review
The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire
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This sprawling tale isn’t so much about Agustin de Iturbide y Green, the grandson of the first Mexican Emperor, Agustin de Iturbide, ...Read Review
Call Me Charlie
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Prior to the onset of the American Civil War, Kansas Jayhawkers attacked proslavery farms in Missouri. When the war began, men organized guerrilla ...Read Review
