HNR Issue 60 (May 2012)
The House of Rumour
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At first sight this is a conspiracy thriller, although more ‘literary’ than most, as one would expect from Sceptre. It has the usual ...Read Review
Almodis, The Peaceweaver
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11th-century Occitania is a collection of counties and walled cities ruled by families continually fighting and marrying among themselves to increase their lands ...Read Review
A Searing Wind
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In 1541, Spanish explorer Hernando DeSoto has spent several years exploring and conquering the native tribes of Florida. After a major battle at the ...Read Review
Season of Light
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Thomasina (Asa) Ardleigh is 19 years old and wants to change the world. In Paris in the spring of 1788, she immerses herself in the ...Read Review
Love Blooms in Winter
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In 1892, Mae Wilkey is so worried about the welfare of her elderly neighbor, Pauline, that she leaps to the conclusion that the name “...Read Review
London Belles
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London Belles is the tale of four girls, Tilly, Sally, Dulcie and Agnes, during the Second World War. Olive, Tilly’s mother, decides ...Read Review
The Piccadilly Plot
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This Thomas Chaloner mystery takes place in London in the spring of 1664. Chaloner has been summoned from Tangier back to London by his ...Read Review
A Secret in Her Kiss
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Constantinople, 1815. Outside an opium den, an attractive woman in Turkish garments and a handsome British officer in uniform are spotted kissing. Members of ...Read Review
The Other Guy’s Bride
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Set in early 20th-century Egypt, this rollicking romance pits disaster-prone archeologist – pretending to be an officer’s bride-to-be – Ginisse Braxton against her desert ...Read Review
The Black Jackals
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In the summer of 1940 during WW2, the British Expeditionary Force in France were forced to retreat. The 51st. Highland Division (the Black Jackals) ...Read Review
