HNR Issue 71 (February 2015)

Deeds of Darkness

By Edward Marston - Published 2014

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Deeds of Darkness is the fifth novel in the Home Front series by Edward Marston, and continues the detecting journey of Detective Inspector ...Read Review

A Spool of Blue Thread

By Anne Tyler - Published 2014

Genres:

Saga

Tyler’s latest novel is filled with what readers have come to expect and love from her: a frank dissection of a family, ...Read Review

The Time Roads

By Beth Bernobich - Published 2014

Genres:

AdventureFantasy

Three narrators in four different stories relate elements of one gripping tale: the superpower nation of Eire (alternate-history Ireland) faces dissolution and defeat ...Read Review

Wheels of Change

By Darlene Beck Jacobson - Published 2014

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

In the first decade of the 20th century, Emily Soper, the 12-year-old daughter of the premiere carriage builder in Washington, D.C., would ...Read Review

England, Arise

By Juliet Barker - Published 2014

Genres:

Nonfiction

This is a thrillingly readable and a meticulously researched account of what the Victorians misnamed the Peasants’ Revolt, that great rising of public ...Read Review

Killers of the King: The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I

By Charles Spencer - Published 2014

Genres:

Nonfiction

The 1649 execution of Charles I seemed to signal the end of the Stuart dynasty. The killers of the king, or regicides, certainly believed ...Read Review

Margot at War

By Anne de Courcy - Published 2014

Genres:

Nonfiction

Margot Asquith was the wife of the early 20th century British Prime Minister Herbert Asquith. By 1912 her personality, her background, her appearance and ...Read Review

Shadow of the Lion: Blood on the Moon

By W. Ruth Kozak - Published 2014

Genres:

AdventureEpic

This novel tells of the first years after the death of Alexander the Great, when his generals fought one another for possession of ...Read Review

The Long Sword

By Christian Cameron - Published 2014

Genres:

AdventureMilitaryThriller

The Long Sword, the second book in Cameron’s new series, the first of which was The Ill-made Knight, begins in Pisa in 1364. ...Read Review

A Cruel Necessity

By L.C. Tyler - Published 2014

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

John Grey has returned to his native Suffolk from studying law at Cambridge. After an evening in the local pub he finds himself, ...Read Review