HNR Issue 49 (August 2009)
A Gentleman of Fortune
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This is the second novel featuring amateur detective Miss Dido Kent and is set during the Regency period. This was a new author ...Read Review
Seduce Me
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Esme Worthington, a self-taught scholar, lives in Victorian London and dreams of finding the location of the legendary Pandora’s Box. She knows ...Read Review
Gold Digger: A Klondike Mystery
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The mysterious Fiona MacGillivray and her 12-year-old son Angus came to Dawson at the end of the 1898 Klondike Gold Rush to evade a ...Read Review
Seen the Glory: A Novel of the Battle of Gettysburg
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The young Chandler brothers, brash 18-year-old Luke and soft-spoken 16-year-old Thomas, advance to maturity in the blood-soaked fields of Gettysburg in John Hough’...Read Review
The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Bronte
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Jane Eyre and Villette are two of my favorite books, and I’ve always been interested in Charlotte Brontë and her family. I ...Read Review
The Streets of Babylon: A London Mystery
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Renowned Swedish mystery author Euthanasia Bondeson and her companion, Agnes, travel to England to spend a season enjoying the Great Exhibition of 1851 and ...Read Review
McNaughten
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It is 1843, a time of intense agitation about the Corn Laws. Sir Robert Peel’s Private Secretary is shot and dies and a ...Read Review
The Children’s Book
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This long-awaited novel, A.S. Byatt’s first since 2001, is extraordinarily difficult to encapsulate and to do full justice within the confines of ...Read Review
Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile
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Biographical FictionMystery/Crime
Oscar Wilde sails back to Europe after one of his visits to the United States, where this latest mystery begins to unfold with ...Read Review
Darcy and Anne
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Readers of Pride and Prejudice will remember that Darcy had a cousin called Anne de Bourgh, daughter of the formidable Lady Catherine. They ...Read Review
