HNR Issue 49 (August 2009)
The Perfect Poison
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Lucinda Bromley is a botanist living in Victorian London. She has an apparently paranormal knack for detecting poisons which makes her quite a ...Read Review
The Chapel at the Edge of the World
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In 1942, Italian prisoners of war were taken to the Orkneys and employed to build the defences around Scapa Flow and later the causeway. ...Read Review
American Adulterer
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This novel is unputdownable. Much of what makes it compulsive reading, however, is its voyeuristic quality. Although written in prose of lapidary concision ...Read Review
Under this Unbroken Sky
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Lured by promises of prosperity and fertile land for farming, Theo Mykolayenko and his family immigrated to Canada to escape the political and ...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
Murder in the Dark
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Phryne Fisher receives an invitation from the eccentric twins Gerald and Isabella Templar to the Last Best Party of 1928, to be held at ...Read Review
Murder on a Midsummer Night
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Greenwood’s latest entry in the Phryne Fisher series, her 16th, has the unflappable Melbourne detective facing a multitude of problems: her 29th ...Read Review
Winter in June
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Third in Haines’s Rosie Winter mystery series, this outing finds the World War II-era actress on a steamer to the South Pacific ...Read Review
The Finest Type of English Womanhood
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Two girls who have never met escape from the drab restrictions of post World War 2 Britain, their destination South Africa. Innocent and bewildered 17...Read Review
