HNR Issue 53 (August 2010)

Libertine’s Kiss

By Judith James - Published 2010

Genres:

Romance

Elizabeth Walters has lost much during the English Civil War, including her father, her husband and her lands. But when a handsome stranger ...Read Review

The Cobras of Calcutta: The Decipherer’s Chronicles

By Grant Sutherland - Published 2010

Genres:

Adventure

Between the years 1757 and 1815, the Decipherers were locked in battle with the Cabinet Noir, the secret agency of Britain’s deadly enemy, France. ...Read Review

Romancing Miss Bronte

By Juliet Gael - Published 2010

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Juliet Gael takes readers to the 19th-century Yorkshire village of Haworth, where sisters Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë live in the parsonage with ...Read Review

Somewhere to Belong

By Judith Miller - Published 2010

Genres:

InspirationalRomance

In 1877 Berta Schumacher, a spoiled society girl from Chicago, comes with her parents to live in the Christian community of Amana, where her ...Read Review

Private Life

By Jane Smiley - Published 2010

Genres:

EpicLiterary

Early on, the heroine of this wonderfully deceptive novel, Margaret, rides a bike along a country road: “covering distance in this solitary manner ...Read Review

Testimony of Two Men

By Taylor Caldwell - Published 2010

Genres:

Saga

Rereading a popular novel forty years after publication is a unique experience. Then it was just a gripping read, an intriguing story about ...Read Review

Spies of the Balkans

By Alan Furst - Published 2010

Genres:

Thriller

This latest piece of Furst’s massive WWII jigsaw puzzle opens in October 1940 in Salonika, Macedonia. “Senior Police Official” Costa Zannis is investigating ...Read Review

How High the Moon

By Sandra Kring - Published 2010

Genres:

Isabella “Teaspoon” Marlene isn’t one of the good girls. She’s not prim or proper, she pals around with the local prostitutes, ...Read Review

The Return of Captain John Emmett

By Elizabeth Speller - Published 2010

Genres:

MilitaryMystery/Crime

London 1921. Laurence Bartram, widower and decorated army officer, is attempting to find a role for himself in post-War society by writing a study ...Read Review

The Poet Prince

By Kathleen McGowan - Published 2010

Genres:

Thriller

Bestselling author McGowan’s third installment in her “Magdalene Line” series is another exciting historical thriller. The novel slips effortlessly between modern day ...Read Review