HNR Issue 62 (November 2012)
Poseidon’s Spear
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Distraught over the death of his wife, Aristemnos — bronzesmith, warrior, and survivor of the battle of Marathon — flings himself off a cliff to ...Read Review
On the Cold Coasts
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In 15th-century Iceland, Ragna Gautadottir is innocently put in an unfortunate situation when she is fourteen. Impregnated by an English sailor who then ...Read Review
The Sultan’s Wife
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A bewitching novel set in the 17th century, The Sultan’s Wife is an engulfing ride to exotic Morocco and into the palace ...Read Review
Lady Louisa’s Christmas Knight
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Though Lady Louisa Windham has suitors, she can’t imagine marrying any of them—especially Lionel Honiton, a dandy who seems more concerned ...Read Review
The Bride Wore Blue
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Vivian Sinclair is a woman with a past. She joins her three sisters in Cripple Creek, Colorado, in 1897, hoping for a new beginning. ...Read Review
The Cruel Trade
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This unusual novel is set in Zanzibar in the mid-19th century, where slavery, ivory and trade from the northern ports have made ...Read Review
Isabel’s Skin
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Book valuer David Morris is summoned to Belmont Hall to value the collection of the late Lord Buff-Orpington, a specialist in works of ...Read Review
The Lighthouse Road
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The Lighthouse Road might best be described as a family saga, except that the families are constructed out of characters who are alone ...Read Review
The Minotaur’s Head
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Fans of the wonderful Polish crime writer Marek Krajewski will be thrilled at this, his latest story in translation, featuring policeman Eberhard Mock. ...Read Review
The Heat of the Sun
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David Rain has imagined a sequel to the story in Puccini’s opera Madame Butterfly. In the opera, Butterfly has a child, a ...Read Review