HNR Issue 63 (February 2013)
The Colours of Corruption
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The Colours of Corruption’s cover is suggestive of the atmosphere the author means to evoke, in a palette of murky greens and ...Read Review
Wolves in Winter
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Hilton’s latest novel, Wolves in Winter, is the first of a trilogy set in Renaissance Italy. The scene is set by the ...Read Review
If You Give a Rake a Ruby
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Fallon, called the “Marchioness of Mystery” by her admirers, hates the life she leads as a celebrated courtesan. Most of all, she hates ...Read Review
Death and the Maiden: A Max Liebermann Mystery
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Sixth in a series starring psychoanalyst Max Liebermann, a “consulting” psychiatrist to the Prague police department, Death and the Maiden does not disappoint, ...Read Review
A Plague of Lies
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Right at the opening, this novel takes Hemingway’s advice to show “how the weather was” by vividly portraying a Paris rainstorm. Charles ...Read Review
Once Again a Bride
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During the British Regency, Charlotte Rutherford Wylde has been married off at age 18 to Henry Wylde, a man 30 years her senior. Rather than ...Read Review
The Last Runaway
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A young Quaker woman, Honor Bright, has left her civilized home of Bridport in England for the wild, untamed wilderness of Ohio. The ...Read Review
Blockade Runner
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Shipping clerk Tom Wells impresses his employers in 1861 London so much that they entrust him with the administration of their blockade-running trade to ...Read Review
Swimming with Serpents
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As an Alabama native who’s visited Horseshoe Bend and knows descendants of William Weatherford, I was interested in this novel about the ...Read Review
Parlor Games
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Mae West once quipped that “good girls go to heaven, but bad girls go everywhere,” and this other May (Dugas) sure is one ...Read Review
