HNR Issue 67 (February 2014)
I Always Loved You
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“Paris is raining,” Mary Cassatt says at the beginning of Robin Oliveira’s second historical novel, revealing Cassatt’s fondness of thinking of ...Read Review
Savage Girl
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Wealthy New Yorker Hugo Delegate is discovered next to the mutilated body of his friend, Bev Willets. With his history of nervous disorders ...Read Review
The Canary
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Amelia Earhart was born to take to the air. She grew up a tomboy, learned to fly at the age of 23, set her ...Read Review
The Prisoner of the Riviera
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The second outing for 20th-century painter Francis Bacon as an accidental sleuth opens with a bang: “The war was over: Herr Hitler was ...Read Review
Critical Mass
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Critical Mass presents an interesting genre mix: political thriller, detective story and time-slip novel. Although mostly set in the 21st century, it contains ...Read Review
A Star for Mrs. Blake
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Though it’s been thirteen years since her son Sammy died at Verdun, Cora Blake still feels the sting of the decision to ...Read Review
The Medici Mirror
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Sixteenth-century France, and the King’s unloved bride, Catherine de Medici, nourishes hatred, focusing on her husband’s mistress, Diane de Poitiers, using ...Read Review
Fiendish Schemes
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In 1987, K.W. Jeter coined the term “steam-punks” to refer to the cyberpunk variant of literature that he, and others, had begun to ...Read Review
Diamonds and Deceit
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London, 1913. In this, the second of the Somerton novels, we follow the fortunes of Lady Rose, once a housemaid, and now the acknowledged ...Read Review
The King’s Grave: The Discovery of Richard III’s Lost Burial Place and the Clues It Holds
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The King’s Grave is a history-making book which I had trouble putting down. The final hours of Richard III, England’s last ...Read Review