HNR Issue 51 (February 2010)

The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson

By Jerome Charyn - Published 2010

Genres:

Biographical FictionLiterary

There can be few challenges more daunting for a writer than attempting to take on the voice of another writer, particularly one known ...Read Review

The Debonair Duke

By Emily Hendrickson - Published 2010

Genres:

Romance

On her website, Emily Hendrickson says: ‘[T]oo many of the peers we encounter in Regency novels sound more American than British. A ...Read Review

Catching the Current

By Jenny Pattrick - Published 2009

Genres:

Saga

Catching the Current is a companion to Jenny Pattrick’s earlier “Denniston” novels. It tells the story of Conrad Rasmussen, the enigmatic and ...Read Review

The Edge of Eden

By Helen Benedict - Published 2009

Genres:

Saga

The Edge of Eden is rich in contrasts: the Seychelles Islands and fog-shrouded London; well-to-do British colonists and the poverty of natives; religious ...Read Review

Last Nocturne

By Marjorie Eccles - Published 2008Published 2009

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

A young artist on the verge of success throws himself out of his window, to be impaled on the iron fence below. An ...Read Review

Too Many Murders: A Carmine Delmonico Novel

By Colleen McCullough - Published 2009Published 2010

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

With a population of only 150,000, Holloman, Connecticut, isn’t technically large enough to have its own homicide department, but on April 3, 1967, Captain Carmine ...Read Review

The Carnivore

By Mark Sinnett - Published 2009

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

On October 15, 1954, Hurricane Hazel pounded Toronto with high winds and torrential rains. When the swollen rivers flooded their banks, bridges were swept off ...Read Review

Alcestis

By Katharine Beutner - Published 2010

Genres:

Historical FantasyLiterary

Those familiar with Greek mythology may recall Alcestis as the symbol of an ideal wife, a woman who so loved her husband, Admetus, ...Read Review

Lady Macbeth’s Daughter

By Lisa Klein - Published 2009

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

In her third historical for teens, Lisa Klein offers a new take on Macbeth’s bloody rise to power through the alternating narratives ...Read Review

Middling Folk: Three Seas, Three Centuries, One Scots-Irish Family

By Linda H. Matthews - Published 2010

Genres:

NonfictionSaga

The author has dedicated this publication to her father, and rightly so. His desire to research and record his family history laid the ...Read Review