HNR Issue 68 (May 2014)
The Bride Insists
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Jane Ashford, author of Once Again a Bride, delivers a charming historical romance set in Regency England. Governess Clare Greenough unexpectedly finds out ...Read Review
A Bride for Keeps
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Julia Lockwood arrives in 1876 Kansas, a mail-order bride arrangement promoted by Everett Cline’s neighbor, Rachel. Julia doesn’t know that this is ...Read Review
She’s Leaving Home
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Although primarily a police procedural, this novel, set in 1968, successfully portrays a rapidly changing British culture. A young woman’s body is found ...Read Review
Murder on the Home Front
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First published in 1955 as Evidence for the Crown, Murder on the Home Front is the World War II memoir of Molly Lefebure, a ...Read Review
From the Charred Remains
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This is the second in the Lucy Campion mystery series (after A Murder at Rosamund’s Gate). Former lady’s maid Lucy is ...Read Review
God of Vengeance
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Sigurd has been deserted by the gods. His father, Jarl Harald, and his kinsmen have perished in an almighty sea battle fuelled by ...Read Review
The King’s Corrodian
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A widely disliked lay pensioner, the corrodian of the title, has seemingly vanished from a locked chamber within Perth’s Dominican priory, and ...Read Review
The Shadow Queen
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Set in 17th century France during the reign of the Sun King, The Shadow Queen chronicles the life of Claudette des Oeillets, a ...Read Review
Pig’s Foot
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Oscar Kortico, descendant of the founding family of a small, poverty-struck hamlet in a far flung part of Cuba, takes readers on a ...Read Review
Mount Terminus
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It is the very early days of cinematography – so early that Thomas Edison is still inventing the Kinetoscope – and Jacob Rosenbloom is the ...Read Review
