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
People of the Morning Star: A Novel of North America’s Forgotten Past
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In the 11th century, the Mississippi River city of Cahokia is at its zenith. Hundreds of thousands of people live in this “mound ...Read Review
A Stitch in Air
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In 16th-century Granada, the convent of Saint Margaret’s houses a community of sisters renowned for their fine lace making. This novel is ...Read Review
The Anatomy Lesson
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Offering a glimpse into a distant place and era often requires a sleight-of-hand trick or two from writers. They produce the flavor of ...Read Review
The China Memoirs of Thomas Rowley
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Based on the once lost memoirs of Thomas Rowley, this novel takes the reader on an erotic and subservient journey through the Taiping ...Read Review
Glorious
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You can’t get any more remote than Glorious, Arizona in 1860. That’s where Cash McLendon winds up, simultaneously fleeing a vengeful father-in-law, ...Read Review
The City of Palaces
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In 1897 in Ciudad de México, lovingly called the City of Palaces on account of its numerous Spanish colonial edifices, Condesa Alicia Gavilá...Read Review
Roosevelt’s Beast
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1914. Teddy Roosevelt is a Bull Moose without a cause. Defeated for re-election, he redirects his boundless energy into an expedition to chart the ...Read Review
The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street
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Lillian Dunkle, celebrated matriarch of the ice cream business, recounts her life from penniless immigrant to food tycoon. Because it is written as ...Read Review
Light of the Diddicoy
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The first installment of Eamon Loingsigh’s Auld Irishtown trilogy, Light of the Diddicoy illuminates the dark underbelly of Brooklyn’s Irish roots ...Read Review
