HNR Issue 68 (May 2014)

Last Train to Paris

By Michele Zackheim - Published 2014

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In hindsight, we know that no sane person, Jewish or otherwise, would try to ride it out in pre-war Paris and Berlin. But ...Read Review

Titled Americans

Published 2013

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Nonfiction

A reprint of the original 1890 edition, Titled Americans was written to be a catalog for wealthy American women looking to improve their social ...Read Review

The Miracle Thief

By Iris Anthony - Published 2014

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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

By Sandra Heath Wilson - Published 2014

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Romance

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

By John Pilkington - Published 2014

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AdventureMystery/Crime

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

By Victoria Alexander - Published 2014

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Romance

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

By Melody Groves - Published 2014

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Western

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

By Bill Pronzini - By Marcia Muller - Published 2014

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

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

By Angela Arney - Published 2014

Genres:

Romance

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

By Jean Fullerton - Published 2013

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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