HNR Issue 84 (May 2018)
Jane Seymour: The Haunted Queen
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Set in Tudor England, this novel is about the third Queen to Henry VIII. Katherine of Aragon is divorced for failing to provide ...Read Review
Fear and His Servant
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In 18th-century Serbia, Count Otto von Hausburg visits Belgrade with his servant, Novak. Von Hausburg is not what he seems—or perhaps exactly ...Read Review
The River Maid
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The River Maid series is a new departure for the historical romance writer, Dilly Court. In this first book in the series, set ...Read Review
The Long Shadow
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This is book one of the Winds of Freedom series. It is March 1850 in northeastern Vermont, and teenaged Alice Sanborn works hard helping ...Read Review
A Reckoning
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In Spalding’s excellent fifth novel (after The Purchase, 2013), John, a white man, and Bry, a black man, struggle with the onus of ...Read Review
The Grave’s a Fine and Private Place
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This is the latest installment in the very popular history mystery series starring adolescent sleuth, pre-teen and chemistry whiz Flavia de Luce, set ...Read Review
A Death of No Importance
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Set amidst the extravagance of 1910 New York City, where moneyed families lived in fear of scandal, this is a story of two deaths. ...Read Review
Greeks Bearing Gifts
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Bernie Gunther returns for #13 in Philip Kerr’s crime fiction series. The former Berlin police detective has survived the Nazi years, but at ...Read Review
Holmes Entangled
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This slim, inventive novel begins in the early 1940s in Buenos Aires, though it is only a frame to the body of the ...Read Review
Learning to Fly
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This biographical novel tells the story of an unsung hero of the First World War. Fred Dunn grew up in a mining village ...Read Review
