HNR Issue 82 (November 2017)

No Saints in Kansas

By Amy Brashear - Published 2017

Genres:

Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime

In 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, brutal murders are discovered in a farmhouse by two teenagers. The respected Clutter family, husband, ...Read Review

Twilight of Empire: The Tragedy at Mayerling and the End of the Habsburgs

By Greg King - By Penny Wilson - Published 2017

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeNonfiction

The murder-suicide at Mayerling was an event that ripped a family, an empire, and eventually the entire world apart. Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose ...Read Review

Too Scot to Handle

By Grace Burrowes - Published 2017

Genres:

Romance

When a story begins with “it is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a great fortune,” it portends ...Read Review

Mr. Campion’s Abdication

By Mike Ripley - Published 2017

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In 1970, Albert Campion has been invited to serve as a consultant to an Italian film producer, Donna Daniela-Petraglia, at Heronhoe Hall in Pontisbright ...Read Review

Sink or Swim: A Novel of WWII

By Steve Watkins - Published 2017

Genres:

Children/Young AdultMilitaryNautical

Fishing off the North Carolina coast is routine for twelve-year-old Colton, until a surfacing U-boat destroys their craft and severely injures his older ...Read Review

Christmas: A Biography

By Judith Flanders - Published 2017

Genres:

Nonfiction

This fascinating, if loosely-structured, study of the evolution of Christmas traditions will reward the patient reader. It brings together a wide variety of ...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