HNR Issue 76 (May 2016)
On This Foundation
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Nehemiah is a mere cup bearer (food taster) to the King of Persia in a palace one thousand miles from Jerusalem. The King ...Read Review
Rufius
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There are interesting stories alluded to in Sarah Walton’s Rufius, including the destruction of the Great Library at Alexandria, the repository for ...Read Review
Portrait of a Conspiracy: Da Vinci’s Disciples, Book 1
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In Renaissance Florence, revenge rules supreme, and the feud between the powerful Medici and Pazzi families colors nearly every aspect of life. When ...Read Review
A Masterpiece of Corruption
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As a huge fan of Tyler’s Ethelred and Elsie series, I was very happy to receive this to review and even happier ...Read Review
The Eloquence of the Dead
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Conor Brady’s latest Joe Swallow procedural (after his debut in A June of Ordinary Murders, HNR 72) involves the 1880s Dublin Detective Sergeant ...Read Review
The Silent Shore of Memory
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Lt. James Barnhill is only 25 when General Hood leads the Fifth Texas Regiment against Little Round Top during the battle of Gettysburg. Hood ...Read Review
Speakers of the Dead: A Walt Whitman Mystery
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1843: Walt Whitman, reporter and sometime poet, has failed to keep his friend, Lena Stowe, from hanging. Whitman knows Lena would never murder her ...Read Review
A Fine Imitation
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Co-ed Vera Longacre is the epitome of an old money New York heiress: intelligent, beautiful, reserved, and above all a compliant daughter—until ...Read Review
Without Leave
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In 1967 San Francisco, Seaman David Shields is on shore leave from the USS Loyola, having returned from service in the Western Pacific. He ...Read Review
The Two-Family House
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The time frame is the late 1940s, the place is Brooklyn. Common to that era, two Jewish families share two floors of a ...Read Review