HNR Issue 77 (August 2016)
The Imperial Wife
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Tanya Kagan is a specialist in Russian art who works for a New York auction house and is busy organizing the biggest sale ...Read Review
Donovan’s Devils: OSS Commandos Behind Enemy Lines
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Between 1942 and 1945, William Donovan’s Office of Strategic Services commandos executed hundreds of missions in support of Allied efforts in World War II. ...Read Review
Jacobites: A New History of the ’45
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In August 1745, Charles Edward Stuart landed in the Scottish Highlands, intending to restore his exiled father, James, to the British throne. The Hanoverian ...Read Review
Ithaca
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Updating the second oldest extant work of Western literature, Homer’s Odyssey, seems a daunting task, but the author entertainingly succeeds. The novel ...Read Review
The Girl in the Glass Tower
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Queen Elizabeth I is ageing and without an heir. Arbella Stuart, niece to Mary Queen of Scots, is first in line for the ...Read Review
Death at the Boston Tea Party: A John Rawlings Mystery
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When an actress, traveling under an aristocratic alias, falls to her death from the riggings of a ship in the wake of the ...Read Review
The Strings of Murder
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In 1888 London, Inspector Ian Frey is down on his luck. Having lost his job, his girl, and the respect of his family, his ...Read Review
Flirtation Walk
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In 1855, after the death of her con man father, Lucinda Pennyworth moves to West Point to live with her aunt and uncle. Lucinda ...Read Review
The Circle
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In his second post-Civil War mystery (after The Blue and the Grey, HNR May 2015), Trow, a Welsh-born writer, again places his enquiry agents (...Read Review
Modern Girls
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In 1935 on New York’s Lower East Side, two Jewish women, a mother and a daughter, both find themselves unexpectedly pregnant. How they ...Read Review
