HNR Issue 62 (November 2012)
God Carlos
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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