HNR Issue 82 (November 2017)

A Promise of Ruin

By Cuyler Overholt - Published 2017

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Young Italian Teresa Casoria is one of hundreds of immigrants arriving daily in New York City early in the 20th century. She is ...Read Review

A Casualty of War

By Charles Todd - Published 2017

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeThriller

Armistice Day brings no peace to nurse Bess Crawford. In the waning days of the Great War, she nursed a patient, Captain Alan ...Read Review

The Murderer’s Maid: A Lizzie Borden Novel

By Erika Mailman - Published 2017

Genres:

Erika Mailman brings to life the story of the Borden murders, inflating new life into the oft-told tale by using the perspective of ...Read Review

False Lights

By K. J. Whittaker - Published 2017

Genres:

Alternate History

The strapline of this book is: ‘What if Napoleon, instead of Wellington, had won the Battle of Waterloo?’ Well, apparently Napoleon continues in ...Read Review

I Survived the American Revolution, 1776

By Lauren Tarshis - Published 2017

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

This book is a part of the popular “I Survived” series, written for upper elementary readers to bring them a first-person narrative of ...Read Review

The Heritage

By D. J. Presson - Published 2017

Genres:

Nick Press and his sister, Anne, live in 17th-century England. The novel spans from the trial and execution of King Charles I to ...Read Review

A Daring Arrangement

By Joanna Shupe - Published 2017

Genres:

Romance

Part of a series of romances set in the Gilded Age in New York City, Shupe’s story follows Lady Honora Parker, recently ...Read Review

The Tiger’s Daughter

By K. Arsenault Rivera - Published 2017

Genres:

Historical Fantasy

In an Asiatic medieval fantasy world, the Hokkaran Empire rules most lands. But a dark evil surrounds the empire, invading with the deadly ...Read Review

The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God’s Holy Warriors

By Dan Jones - Published 2017

Genres:

Nonfiction

The Templars gives you what it says on the cover: a narrative history of the Knights Templar, and it is detailed, scholarly, lengthy ...Read Review

Deeds of Darkness

By Mel Starr - Published 2017

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In Deeds of Darkness, the tenth installment of the Hugh de Singleton medieval mystery series, the titular character Hugh, Oxford surgeon, is called ...Read Review