HNR Issue 50 (November 2009)

Mr. Darcy, Vampyre

By Amanda Grange - Published 2009

Genres:

Historical FantasyRomance

Mr. Darcy, Vampyre combines the romantic tale of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice with the dark world of vampyres, giving a new ...Read Review

Girl Mary

By Petru Popescu - Published 2009

Genres:

Biographical FictionLiterary

Romanian-born bestseller Petru Popescu imagines the girlhood of Jesus’s mother in this European-flavored literary work. We first see the tall young woman ...Read Review

Flint

By Margaret Redfern - Published 2009

Genres:

Literary

Young Will and his brother Ned are called away from their home in East Anglia to King Edward’s Welsh wars to dig ...Read Review

Love’s Pursuit

By Siri Mitchell - Published 2009

Genres:

InspirationalRomance

Susannah Phillips lives in 1640s Massachusetts Bay Colony, and is growing impatient to wed Jon Prescotte once his family problems are resolved. But ...Read Review

The Blue Enchantress

By M. L. Tyndall - Published 2009

Genres:

InspirationalRomance

In St. Kitts in 1718, Captain Nathaniel Mason is shocked to see a familiar face from Charles Towne, that of beautiful Hope Westcott, an ...Read Review

Claudius

By Douglas Jackson - Published 2009

Genres:

Adventure

Emperor Claudius needs to secure his tenuous position in Rome and sets his sights on victory in Britain as a sure-fire winner. In ...Read Review

Chambers of Death

By Priscilla Royal - Published 2009

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

It is 1284, and no one at the Earl of Lincoln’s castle is having a happy sex life. Those who aren’t gay ...Read Review

The Cavalier in the Yellow Doublet

By Arturo Pérez-Reverte - By Margaret Jull Costa (trans.) - Published 2009

Genres:

Adventure

In this fifth book in the adventures of Captain Alatriste, the captain and his page, soldier in training Íñigo Balboa, experience a respite ...Read Review

Sonora Moonlight

By Florence B. Weinberg - Published 2009

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeWestern

In the 18th century, Spanish missionaries struggle to convert and educate the Native American population of Sonora, Northwest New Spain (Mexico). Father Ygnacio ...Read Review

The Gladiator

By Simon Scarrow - Published 2009

Genres:

AdventureMilitary

The Gladiator is Simon Scarrow’s ninth book in his Roman series featuring Macro and Cato. This time the intrepid duo are in ...Read Review