HNR Issue 65 (August 2013)
The Colour of Milk
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“the story begins in the year of eighteen hundred and thirty. the years are of the lord.” And so begins the story of ...Read Review
Forsaken Dreams
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Colonel Blake Wallace is fleeing from the horrors he has experienced in the American Civil War. His family murdered and the cause he ...Read Review
Sacred Games
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It is 460 BC, and the 80th Olympiad is about to begin. Arakos the Spartan, one of the favorites for the Pankration, Ancient Greece’...Read Review
The Fifth Knight
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Originally released as a Kindle Serial, The Fifth Knight is a handy twist on the Becket murder and is, from this reader’s ...Read Review
Sorcerer: A Novel of Queen Elizabeth’s Alchemist
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Dr. John Dee fascinates everybody, the ultimate absent-minded professor looking for angels and gold. Geoffrey James’ novel attempts to encompass this extraordinary man, ...Read Review
The Corsair
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It is early in the 19th century. The trade links between Bombay, Oman, Iraq and on to China are seen as strategically important, ...Read Review
The Paris Affair
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The Paris Affair begins with a two-page list of characters, a mix of real historical figures and fictional people. The opening chapters are ...Read Review
Changes
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Lise Dupree, a librarian in Omaha, Nebraska in 1879, is part Native American and is attempting to pass for white. But keeping the secret ...Read Review
Murder in Chelsea
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This fifteenth installment of Victoria Thompson’s popular Gaslight era mysteries hits midwife and widow Sarah Brandt close to home. The parentage of ...Read Review
Summerset Abbey: A Bloom in Winter
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Wealthy sisters Rowena and Victoria Buxton, along with their friend Prudence Tate, return in this sequel to Summerset Abbey. Victoria is drawn into ...Read Review
