HNR Issue 68 (May 2014)
Son of Fortune
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In the 1860s, a lumberman from the great Pacific Northwest, Aiden Lynch, flees Seattle after causing the death of one man. Desperate to ...Read Review
The Hotel on the Place Vendome
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Since the Paris Ritz was first established in 1898, hundreds of world-famous writers, actors, princes and tycoons have stayed in its suites and dined ...Read Review
Murder in Murray Hill
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The obstacles keeping midwife Sarah Brandt and policeman Frank Malloy from teaming up romantically fell away by the end of the last installment ...Read Review
The Mangle Street Murders
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The first in the Victorian-era Gower St. Detective series, The Mangle Street Murders brings to life a crime-solving team reminiscent of Holmes and ...Read Review
The Book of Nights
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Originally published in France in 1985, this novel maps the lives of the “freshwater” Peniel family over a hundred years and appears to focus ...Read Review
Churchill’s First War
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What many people know about Winston Churchill centers on his stirring leadership during WWII as Britain’s Prime Minister. Here Con Coughlin gives ...Read Review
Daughter of the Gods
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For those passionate about ancient Egypt, there are few pharaohs as intriguing as Hatshepsut. In Thornton’s telling, Hatshepsut is the pharaoh’s ...Read Review
The Castle of Whispers
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The Castle of Whispers is the tale of 15-year-old Esclarmonde, who, on her wedding day, chooses the living death of an anchorite over ...Read Review
Beatrice and Benedick
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Written as a prequel to Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, this book tells what might have happened prior to the events of ...Read Review
Secrecy
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Set in late 17th-century Florence at the Medici court of the Grand Duke Cosimo III, Secrecy tells the story of Zummo, a talented ...Read Review
