HNR Issue 68 (May 2014)
The Dark Palace: A Silas Quinn Mystery
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Detective Inspector Silas Quinn heads the Special Crimes Unit of New Scotland Yard, using the burgeoning technology of the early 20th century to ...Read Review
The Miracle Thief
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The Miracle Thief is set in France of the early 900s, a period of political turmoil, Viking invasion, and a decidedly Dark Age ...Read Review
Cicely’s King Richard
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We pick up this story in the early days of Richard III’s reign, when Elizabeth Woodville has gone into sanctuary in Westminster ...Read Review
Marbeck and the Privateers: A Martin Marbeck Mystery
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London, 1604. In the third of a series (after Marbeck and the King-in-Waiting, 2013), Lord Cecil gives his skillful intelligencer what appears to be a ...Read Review
The Scandalous Adventures of the Sister of the Bride
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Delilah, the widowed Lady Hargate, has a delicious fling in 1887 New York with an attractive man she never expects to see again. Then ...Read Review
Kansas Bleeds
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Lucas Colton believes in the Confederate cause, but William Quantrill’s brutality keeps him from joining the Bushwhackers. He becomes a gun runner, ...Read Review
The Spook Lights Affair
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In 1895 San Francisco, a debutante throws herself off a cliff during a festive party. Sabina Carpenter, a female private detective hired to watch ...Read Review
Leaves Before the Storm
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This beautifully written novel makes a change from the increasing number being published with an eye to the interest in both World Wars ...Read Review
All Change for Nurse Millie
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This sequel to Call Nurse Millie (HNR 64) opens in July 1945 as the National Health Service is introduced throughout the country. District Nurse/Midwife ...Read Review
Cementville
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This debut literary novel is set in 1969, in a small Kentucky town that produces cement and whiskey. A funeral cortege brings home seven ...Read Review