HNR Issue 69 (August 2014)

Murder and Mendelssohn

By Kerry Greenwood - Published 2014

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

When a disliked chorus conductor turns up dead, sheet music from Mendelssohn’s Messiah crammed down his throat, it’s up to Detective ...Read Review

Motherland

By Maria Hummel - Published 2014

Genres:

Motherland is a disturbing novel. Set in Germany during the last months of the war, it’s the story of Frank Kappus, a ...Read Review

Julian’s Crusade

By M. H. Achmann - Published 2013-07-08Published 2014

Genres:

AdventureMilitary

In 1190, Julian, younger son of the Duke of Montguyon, is ordered to escort Princess Berengaria of Navarre to the city of Messina. She ...Read Review

Traitor’s Storm: A Tudor mystery featuring Christopher Marlowe (A Christopher Marlowe Mystery Book 6)

By M.J. Trow - Published 2014Published 2014-08-01

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Traitor’s Storm is the fifth installment of a historical mystery series featuring none other than Kit Marlowe as the heroic inspector. Marlowe ...Read Review

The Man with the Lead Stomach: The Nicolas Le Floch Investigations 2: A Nicholas Le Floch Investigation

By Jean-Francois Parot - By Michael Glencross (Translator) - Published 2009-01-15Published 2014

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In 1761, Paris police commissioner Nicholas Le Floch rushes to investigate the apparent suicide of a young aristocrat. Nicholas immediately deduces that the young ...Read Review

How to Lose a Duke in Ten Days: An American Heiress in London

By Laura Lee Guhrke - Published 2014Published 2014-05-08

Genres:

Romance

It began with a simple arrangement: American heiress Edie and the handsome Stuart, Duke of Margrave, would marry to save her reputation and ...Read Review

Gold Fever San Francisco / 1851

By Ken Salter - Published 2013Published 2013-05-01

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Pierre Dubois and his girlfriend Manon arrive in San Francisco in 1851. Dubois is in California to investigate gold mining fraud committed against French ...Read Review

Ruby (Oprahs Book Club 2.0)

By Cynthia Bond - Published 2014Published 2014-04-29

Genres:

Literary

Ruby is a story of great pain – but also hope and possibility – set in Liberty, a small East Texas town. Ruby Bell, in 1974, ...Read Review

Midnight in Europe

By Alan Furst - Published 2014

Genres:

Thriller

Readers of Furst’s excellent inter-war espionage novels will find themselves in familiar territory for this one. It is the end of 1937, and ...Read Review

Valerie’s Russia

By Sara Judge - Published 2014

Genres:

Romance

Valerie is invited to Tsarskoe Selo in 1914 to help the young Romanovs speak more English. She is impressed by Grigorii Rasputin, especially when ...Read Review