HNR Issue 64 (May 2013)
Rome: The Art of War
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This is the fourth in a series of novels set in the 1st century AD featuring the enigmatic spy Pantera, ‘The Leopard’ (HNR 51, 57 ...Read Review
Shakespeare’s Rebel
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We first find John Lawley sleeping off a binge of epic proportions in a down-at-heel tavern in Southwark, London. Throughout the novel, he ...Read Review
The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones
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Tristan Hart is a product of his time (the mid-18th century): conversant in Enlightenment philosophy but puzzled by the mechanics of the ...Read Review
Sherlock Holmes and the Knave of Hearts
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Sherlock Holmes has fallen into depression and is abusing his cocaine habit. When Dr Watson insists that Holmes take a holiday, arrangements are ...Read Review
The Importance of Being Wicked
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The solemn Duke of Castleton, Thomas Fitzcharles, is in search of a bride. She must be of sterling quality in three areas: repute, ...Read Review
The Wrong Hill to Die On
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The latest in the Alafair Tucker mystery series finds the 1916 Oklahoma mother of ten a fish out of water in Tempe, Arizona. Focused ...Read Review
House of Earth
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“Life’s pretty tough—you’re lucky if you live through it.” This quote from Woody Guthrie sums up the outlook of the ...Read Review
Studio Relations
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The dilemma of being a woman director in 1935 is not lost on Vivien Howard, who dresses like Hepburn but whose life lacks the ...Read Review
Forest Brothers
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This debut novel opens in Estonia in 1918, in the wake of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, when the country declared independence from Russia. The ...Read Review
On the Ropes
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In this follow-up to the graphic novel Kings in Disguise, the authors again, in graphic novel format, present the dire circumstances of Fred ...Read Review
