HNR Issue 50 (November 2009)

The Tehran Conviction

By Tom Gabbay - Published 2009

Genres:

Thriller

The third novel to feature Gabbay’s CIA sleuth, Jack Teller, pivots between Teller’s 1953 assignment in Iran and his return in 1979. In 1953 ...Read Review

Invasion

By Julian Stockwin - Published 2009

Genres:

AdventureNautical

Commander Thomas Kydd, RN, is determined to once again sally forth to protect England from the threat of Napoleonic France. In this tenth ...Read Review

The Jade Cat

By Anne Born (trans.) - By Suzanne Brøgger - Published 2004Published 2009

Genres:

Literary

The Løvin family has survived world-changing events, including two world wars and the persecution of Jews by the Nazis, but the dramas ...Read Review

The Missing

By Tim Gautreaux - Published 2009

Genres:

Literary

Sam Simoneaux arrived in France for the Great War just in time to clean up after the Germans. Not a pleasant job, and ...Read Review

The Coral Thief

By Rebecca Stott - Published 2009Published 2010

Genres:

LiteraryThriller

Young Daniel Connor travels on a career-expanding venture to the post-Napoleonic Paris of 1815. A medical student from Scotland, Daniel carries a letter of ...Read Review

The Other Eden

By Sarah Bryant - Published 2006Published 2009

Genres:

Sarah Bryant is unquestionably a talented writer who deserves a wide readership. Her historical novel set during the time of the Crusades, Sand ...Read Review

Unfinished Desires

By Gail Godwin - Published 2009

Genres:

Literary

As this novel opens, Mother Suzanne Ravenel, in her eighties in the year 2001 and the former headmistress of a Catholic girls’ school, is ...Read Review

A Glimpse at Happiness

By Jean Fullerton - Published 2009

Genres:

Saga

Josie O’Casey returns to East End London overjoyed to discover her childhood sweetheart, Patrick Nolan, is alive and well. Her happiness is ...Read Review

Ciao Bella

By Gina Buonaguro - By Janice Kirk - Published 2009

Genres:

Romance

Corelli’s Mandolin meets The Bridges of Madison County in this WWII tale of a love affair between an American soldier and the ...Read Review

As If By Magic

By Dolores Gordon-Smith - Published 2009

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

On a stormy night in October 1923, the destitute and feverish George Lassiter breaks into a house in Mayfair to which he feels strangely ...Read Review