HNR Issue 68 (May 2014)
The Case of the Pistol-Packing Widows
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Children/Young AdultMystery/CrimeWestern
Nevada Territory, U.S.A., 1862. In this, the third P. K. Pinkerton mystery, our hero, age 12, is hired by a Chinese courtesan, Opal ...Read Review
God’s Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England
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This book follows the history of England’s Catholics between the accession of Elizabeth I and the Gunpowder Plot, through the lives of ...Read Review
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
