HNR Issue 70 (November 2014)
Radio Girl
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Cece is a fourteen-year-old with big dreams, especially for a girl living above a Newark, New Jersey hardware store in 1938 – she wants to ...Read Review
Oracles of Delphi: A Novel of Suspense (An Althaia of Athens Mystery)
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Althaia’s trip to Delphi with her tutor and two slave companions was meant to be in honor of her dead father’s ...Read Review
Pilgrimage
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Gebirga is a blind woman living in 12th-century Flanders. Her mother was elevated to sainthood soon after her untimely death, quite probably at ...Read Review
Blade of the Samurai
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The second mystery in this series starts with a jolt and keeps up a great pace as we again accompany Hiro and his ...Read Review
The Counterfeit Heiress
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The latest addition to the Lady Emily mystery series opens with Emily and her devoted husband Colin in 1897 London, attending a fancy-dress ball – ...Read Review
Little Bighorn
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His mother’s dalliance with Col. George Armstrong Custer lands eighteen-year-old Allen Wright a position as the colonel’s aide. Riding with the ...Read Review
A Matter of Grave Concern
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In 1830, Abigail Hale efficiently oversees her father’s medical school by day; by night she efficiently procures cadavers for the school. Abigail’s ...Read Review
From a Distance
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Distance is key in Barker’s new novel. Geographically, there’s action in Cornwall and Norfolk, England, and tangentially India, Italy, and New ...Read Review
Perfidia
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Four Japanese Americans are murdered on the day before Pearl Harbor, opening a book which could be called a police procedural when police ...Read Review
Hardcastle’s Quartet
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In June 1918, Divisional Detective Inspector Ernest Hardcastle of the A (Whitehall) Division of London’s Metropolitan Police is presented with a puzzling new ...Read Review