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

Death in St. Petersburg

By Tasha Alexander - Published 2017

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Lady Emily accompanies her husband, Colin, to St Petersburg in the winter of 1900 as he undertakes a delicate but unspecified task for Queen ...Read Review

The Roman Quests: Death in the Arena

By Caroline Lawrence - Published 2017

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

95 A.D. Ursula, Juba and Fronto, who fled Rome and arrest by the tyrannical Emperor Domitian and sought sanctuary in Britain, have been ...Read Review

Hitler’s First Victims: And One Man’s Race for Justice

By Timothy W. Ryback - Published 2017

Genres:

Nonfiction

This is the account of the men who were the first to be incarcerated in the newly-built concentration camp at Dachau, near Munich. ...Read Review

Shadow of Athena

By Elena Douglas - Published 2017

Genres:

In 7th century B.C.E. Greece, the Fall of Troy is still fresh enough to demand sacrifice. The homeland of the disgraced ...Read Review

By Blood Divided

By James Heneage - Published 2017

Genres:

By the late 1440s Siward Magoris, varangopoulos of Mistra and trusted officer of Emperor Constantine XI, is used to loss. His whole family ...Read Review

On a Particular Service

By David Donachie - Published 2017

Genres:

AdventureMilitaryNautical

1796, and Lieutenant John Pearce is headed to England on board a hospital ship, his future uncertain. But first there is a small matter ...Read Review

Comanche Captive

By D. Lászlo Conhaim - Published 2017

Genres:

Western

This story takes place during the U.S. Army’s Red River campaign in 1874 and the removal of Comanche, Kiowa, Cheyenne, and Arapaho ...Read Review

The Soldier’s Curse

By Meg Keneally - By Tom Keneally - Published 2017

Genres:

AdventureMilitaryMystery/Crime

Set in 1825 in the early years of the Australian colony, this first novel in The Monsarrat Series is set in Port Macquarie. The ...Read Review

Lady Jayne Disappears

By JOANNA DAVIDSON POLITANO - Published 2017Published 2017-10-03

Genres:

InspirationalMystery/Crime

In the summer of 1861, after Miss Aurelie Harcourt’s debtor father dies in Shepton Mallet Prison, she couldn’t imagine the wild twists ...Read Review

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