HNR Issue 51 (February 2010)
Her Highness’ First Murder
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Biographical FictionMystery/Crime
This mystery, set in 1546, features thirteen-year-old Princess Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VIII, as a detective out to find a killer who is stalking ...Read Review
The Queen’s Dollmaker
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Trent marries the story of a talented dollmaker to the fate of the French queen, Marie Antoinette, who will eventually lose her head ...Read Review
Recollections of Rosings
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Nothing has prepared Catherine or her daughter Lillian to see a black and smoldering ruin where an elegant house once stood. “Catherine gasped. ...Read Review
Lord Dancy’s Delight
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Amelia Longworth is travelling to England from Macaovia Portugal when she encounters Lord Dancy, returning from military duties on the Peninsula. He saves ...Read Review
Becoming Lucy
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In 1896, sixteen-year-old Lucinda Bishop, a wealthy Bostonian, lost her parents in a tragic accident. Fearing her own life is threatened, she travels to ...Read Review
Rainwater
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Ella Barron meets David Rainwater in the midst of the Depression in the summer of 1934. She is busy running her boardinghouse in Texas ...Read Review
The Man in the Wooden Hat
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This is a companion novel to Old Filth, published in 2005. As I had not read the first book, this may explain why the ...Read Review
The Promise of Rain
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This is a moving novel about family, love and war. It is split between the viewpoint of an 11-year-old girl, Ethie, in 1962, trying ...Read Review
A Distant Melody
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In 1942, plain Allie Miller travels to northern California for her best friend’s wedding. There, she meets pilot Lt. Walter Novak on his ...Read Review
Angel Time: The Songs of the Seraphim
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This is historical fiction split between 13th-century England and 21st-century America. Anne Rice, known for her Vampire Chronicles and her series on the ...Read Review