HNR Issue 82 (November 2017)

Clytemnestra: The Mother’s Blade

By Alice Underwood - By Victoria Grossack - Published 2017

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Set firmly in the Bronze Age, this novel once again gives us the eternally re-fought conflict that ensued, when the Greek city-states, led ...Read Review

Pilate’s Daughter

By Fiona Veitch Smith - Published 2017

Genres:

Claudia Lucretia Pilate, the fictional daughter of the historically accurate governor Pontius Pilate, is not happy with her father’s choice of husband ...Read Review

The Gryphon at Bay

By Louise Turner - Published 2017

Genres:

1489: Hugh, the Second Lord Montgomerie, has just lost his father and is now given substantial power as a member of the Privy Council, ...Read Review

Crossing Point

By James Glickman - Published 2017

Genres:

The American Revolution has begun, and is threatening to spill out of Boston in April 1775 when Guy Watson, slave to Rhode Island’s ...Read Review

The Vineyard

By Lorenza Garcia (trans.) - By María Dueñas - By Nick Caistor (trans.) - Published 2017Published 2017-10-03

Genres:

Epic

Mauro Larrea has become a self-made man in 1860s Mexico City by means of courage and brawny determination. Over decades, this native Spaniard ...Read Review

Blood Oath

By Melissa Lenhardt - Published 2017

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

This story, book 2 in the Sawbones series, starts with a killer first sentence (which aspiring authors will envy) to grip the reader from ...Read Review

A Love of War

By Louise Ripley - Published 2017

Genres:

MilitaryRomance

General J.E.B. (Jeb) Stuart cut a dashing figure in the Confederate army with his scarlet-lined cape, plumed hat, white gauntlets, and ...Read Review

The Language of Trees

By Steve Wiegenstein - Published 2017

Genres:

Literary

The Language of Trees is the third book in Steve Wiegenstein’s Daybreak series and set in the 1880s, about 25 years after book 2 (...Read Review

Murder in an English Village

By Jessica Ellicott - Published 2017

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Edwina Davenport lives in the cozy English village of Walmsley Parva. With her comfortable living affected so bleakly by the aftermath of WWI, ...Read Review

This Side of Murder

By Anna Lee Huber - Published 2017

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In 1919 England, young war widow Verity Kent receives an anonymous letter suggesting her husband, Sidney, committed treason. At first, she refuses to believe ...Read Review