HNR Issue 65 (August 2013)
The Secret History
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A whore who rose to become empress, Theodora was the woman who co-ruled Byzantium in the 6th century, but her life wasn’t ...Read Review
The Inquisitor’s Wife
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In 1481, Queen Isabella, Dominican friar Torquemada, and the Spanish Inquisition arrive in Seville. Many Jewish families, as well as conversos—the “New Christians”—...Read Review
Traitor’s Field
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In his second historical fiction Robert Wilton plunges into the English Civil War. On the royalist side is Sir Mortimer Shay, of the ...Read Review
Death and the Courtesan
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It’s the flamboyant age of the Regency, where Miss Arabella Beaumont makes her living as a courtesan offering her physical wares to ...Read Review
Saving Lincoln
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Beth Wendland arrives at her aunt’s home in Richmond, Virginia in June of 1862. Her Aunt Anna hardly recognizes her niece, who is ...Read Review
The Edge of the Earth
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Journey to the wilds of California’s Big Sur region, where secrets are hidden in the dense fog at The Edge of the ...Read Review
Best Kept Secret: The Clifton Chronicles, Book III
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One has to admire a man who not only does it all but also lives to write about it. Archer’s series, The ...Read Review
Shadows on the Nile
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Jessie Kenton traumatically “lost” her autistic little brother when she was seven. Twenty years later, when Georgie’s adopted replacement, the brilliant Egyptologist ...Read Review
His Majesty’s Hope
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In 1941, Maggie Hope, a mathematician and code breaker working for an elite British spy organization, parachutes into Nazi Germany. She poses as the ...Read Review
Ben Barka Lane
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In 1964, al-Sharqi, an Iraqi political refugee, arrives in Mohammadiya, a town on the Moroccan Mediterranean coast. Finding a high-school teaching position and an ...Read Review
