HNR Issue 66 (November 2013)
Death of a Robber Baron
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Set during New York City’s Gilded Age (the late 19th century), this mystery initially transports us to a time of luxury and ...Read Review
A Place at the Table
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In Susan Rebecca White’s A Place at the Table, her third novel, a passion for cuisine serves to unite people and to ...Read Review
A Spider in the Cup
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Barbara Cleverly’s latest Joe Sandilands mystery is an international affair. In 1933 London, a woman’s body is unearthed on the banks of ...Read Review
The Extra
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In 1940 the Nazi regime’s deadly fingers have reached into Austria, and Jews are disappearing. Vienna’s Gypsy population knows that they are ...Read Review
The Last Ride of Caleb O’Toole
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Twelve-year-old Caleb O’Toole’s last ride is motivated, like all his other actions in this adventure tale, by the dying words of ...Read Review
Dorothea’s War: The Diary of a First World War Nurse
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To summarise the contents of this outstanding diary of a First World War nurse would be a great injustice. Vera Brittain’s Great ...Read Review
Disraeli or The Two Lives
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Victorian statesman Benjamin Disraeli is currently undergoing something of a mini-revival. But was Disraeli, the so called father of “One Nation Toryism”, all ...Read Review
The Emperor’s Agent
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This invigorating follow-up to The General’s Mistress finds its heroine, Dutch courtesan-actress Elzelina Ringeling, aka Ida St. Elme, in a tough spot. ...Read Review
Emancipation Day
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Navy Band trombonist Jack Lewis has a secret. It is a secret he carries with him from his hometown of Windsor, Ontario to ...Read Review
A Treacherous Paradise
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The famed author of the popular Kurt Wallender series takes a real-life historical tidbit and expands it into a meaty novel of colonialism, ...Read Review
