HNR Issue 62 (November 2012)

God Carlos

By Anthony C. Winkler - Published 2012

Genres:

God Carlos is the story of a 16th-century Spanish seaman who sails to Jamaica. He participates in the common practice of mistreating the ...Read Review

Death in the Floating City

By Tasha Alexander - Published 2012

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In Tasha Alexander’s most recent addition to her Lady Emily mystery series, we find the delightful Lady Emily Hargreaves accompanied by her ...Read Review

Selkie Dreams

By Kristin Gleeson - Published 2012

Genres:

Máire lives in comfort with her father and their servants in Belfast in 1889. Her loving cook has always maintained that Máire’...Read Review

The Second Empress: A Novel of Napoleon’s Court

By Michelle Moran - Published 2012

Genres:

After Napoleon jettisons his only true love, the Empress Josephine, who has not given him an heir, he makes a political deal with ...Read Review

The Darling Dahlias and the Confederate Rose

By Susan Wittig Albert - Published 2012

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

This third mystery in an ongoing series is a sweet, nostalgic, regional puzzle set in Depression-era Darling, Alabama. The Darling Dahlias are a ...Read Review

The Greatcoat

By Helen Dunmore - Published 2012

Genres:

With rationing and housing shortages continuing in 1952 England, Dr. Philip Carey and his new wife, Isabel, make do with a cold, shabby flat ...Read Review

Istanbul Passage

By Joseph Kanon - Published 2012

Genres:

Thriller

If you enjoy Graham Greene or John le Carré espionage novels, then this is the book for you—bleak, deceitful, and full of ...Read Review

Becoming Clementine

By Jennifer Niven - Published 2012

Genres:

Adventure

For those who loved Niven’s previous books, Velva Jean Learns to Drive and Velva Jean Learns to Fly, and wonder what happened ...Read Review

The Shadow of Treason

By Edward Taylor - Published 2012

Genres:

Thriller

This is a brisk little thriller set in the last months of WW2, during the V2 (rocket) attack on London and the Home ...Read Review

The War That Came Early: Coup d’Etat

By Harry Turtledove - Published 2012

Genres:

Alternate HistoryMilitary

In this fourth installment of Harry Turtledove’s latest series, set during World War II, he asks the same questions that his previous ...Read Review