HNR Issue 75 (February 2016)
The Lockwoods of Clonakilty
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Lieutenant James Lockwood of the Inniskilling Regiment returns home to Clonakilty after the battle of Waterloo, badly wounded. He recovers a precarious health ...Read Review
Vienna in Violet
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Amsterdam, 1822. After performing a commissioned piece for some of Amsterdam’s wealthiest, singer Johann Michael Vogl and composer Franz Schubert become the lead ...Read Review
Unearthing the Bones: A Warbonnet Mystery
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Unearthing the Bones is fifth in Kresge’s Warbonnet series. Warbonnet is in Wyoming, and in 1874 it’s under the protection of Marshal ...Read Review
The Mind’s Own Place
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Inspired in part by real events and the early pioneers of the Swan River Colony, this novel tells the story of five individuals, ...Read Review
Go Away Home
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A century ago, the roles of women were etched in stone: wife, homemaker, helpmate. However, Liddie Treadway does not intend to be pigeonholed ...Read Review
Platinum Doll
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What a gem of a book this is! Anne Girard has taken the story of Jean Harlow, glamorous bombshell of the early days ...Read Review
The Edge of Lost
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The Edge of Lost opens on Alcatraz in 1937, with an elusive prologue describing a moment from an apparent escape attempt. The prologue ends ...Read Review
No Shred of Evidence: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery
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In the eighteenth in this fine series, Scotland Yard sends Inspector Ian Rutledge to Cornwall to investigate a boating incident in which a ...Read Review
The Muralist
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On the eve of the Second World War, artist Alizee Benoit is employed by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) to paint murals for ...Read Review
Manners & Mutiny: Finishing School, Book the Fourth
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Sophronia Temminnick and her particular friends are nearing the end of their careers at Mademoiselle Geraldine’s Finishing School. The proper Victorian establishment ...Read Review