HNR Issue 76 (May 2016)
The Ides of June: A Libertus Mystery of Roman Britain
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In Glevum (modern Gloucester, England) on the 13th of June in 193 AD, a messenger arrives at the roundhouse of Libertus, a pavement builder. ...Read Review
Apothecary Melchior and the Mystery of St. Olaf’s Church
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In Tallinn, capital of Estonia, in 1409, a serial killer appears to be in the midst of the townspeople – merchants, brewmasters, engineers – and one ...Read Review
Promised to the Crown
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Following the women sent as brides to the emerging French colony of Quebec is an interesting premise for historical fiction. In 1667, three women ...Read Review
Duke of My Heart: A Season for Scandal, Book 1
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When a book opens with a dead naked earl tied to a debutante’s bed, you might rightly wonder if it can only ...Read Review
A Noble Masquerade
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Feisty Lady Miranda Hawthorne finds her mother’s lessons on ladylike behavior difficult to endure. Since childhood, she has found release in writing ...Read Review
The Secrets of Lizzie Borden
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Biographical FictionMystery/Crime
In the summer of 1892, in a small Massachusetts city, a double murder was committed. Lizzie Borden remains morbidly fascinating more than a hundred ...Read Review
Time of Fog and Fire: A Molly Murphy Mystery
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1906: Molly Murphy Sullivan reluctantly bids farewell to her husband, who has been recruited by the Secret Service for a mysterious mission. A few ...Read Review
The Letter Writer
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Dan Fesperman’s The Letter Writer is a classic example of old-fashioned noir with gritty detectives and seedy police officers, plenty of dead ...Read Review
A Daughter’s Love
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Nell Goodman earns just enough from her menial job in a brewery to support herself and her mother, Mabel, until Mabel’s wild ...Read Review
Freya
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The novel starts at the end of the Second World War. Freya Wyley, aged 20, has been doing intelligence work for the Wrens and ...Read Review
