HNR Issue 64 (May 2013)
Out of the Black Land
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Kerry Greenwood is known for Jazz Age mysteries, but Out of the Black Land is a different animal. Eighteenth dynasty Egypt is portrayed ...Read Review
Mistress to the Crown
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Mistress Elizabeth Shore is all that a royal mistress should be, and way more! Getting a taste of what the upper class is ...Read Review
The Gilded Fan
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The story is set in the 1640s, starting off in Japan and then going via Amsterdam to England at the time of the ...Read Review
Waiting for Spring: Westward Winds, Book 2
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Cabot’s Western romance, the second in a trilogy (after Summer of Promise, 2012), follows a frightened young woman on the run. In 1878, Charlotte, ...Read Review
No Safe Harbor
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Cara Hamilton arrives in 1897 New York alone on an immigrant ship from Ireland, looking for her brother Eoghan, who fled to America after ...Read Review
Habits of the House
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Fay Weldon of Upstairs Downstairs fame has written this first of a trilogy, “delving into the decadent lives of masters and their servants ...Read Review
Timote
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David William Foster translated, re-edited and condensed Feinmann’s 2009 novel. In 1970, Peronist rebels kidnap former Argentine president Pedro Eugenio Aramburu, take him to ...Read Review
When Nights Were Cold
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In the early 20th century, Grace Farringdon breaks with the inhibitive practices of her family and society, which held women in the Victorian ...Read Review
The Mussolini Canal
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Many dictators from Nero to Napoleon had set out to drain the Italy’s malarial Pontine Marshes, but it was Mussolini who finally ...Read Review
Love for a Soldier
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Spring 1918. Crash-landed in German-occupied France after an aerial duel with the Red Baron, wounded and desperate for escape, Captain Peter Marsh thinks his ...Read Review