HNR Issue 89 (August 2019)
The Devil’s Slave (Frances Gorges Historical Trilogy)
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In 17th-century England, misogyny, lust, and religious bigotry drive most of King James I/VI’s decisions, according to Tracy Borman, who continues ...Read Review
Race to Marathon
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After word arrives that hundreds of Persian ships are on course to land at the Bay of Marathon, the fewer Athenians scramble to ...Read Review
The Wild Impossibility
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Few jobs are as stressful as that of a nurse in a neonatal ICU, and in February 2011, Kira is maxed out by her ...Read Review
Caging Skies
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Like many Viennese boys of the late 1930s, Johannes Betzler joins the Hitler Youth, in which he takes great pride, and swallows the ...Read Review
An Unlikely Spy
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September 1939. World War 2 has broken out. Brigit Furst has been evacuated to Wales. Her father, a German has been interned for the duration ...Read Review
The Glass Woman
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Rósa Magnusdottir’s mother is ill, hungry and coughing away in the chill and mud of their croft in a late 17th-century ...Read Review
Doublespeak: A Novel (Lena Stillman series)
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“Fairy tales have lives of their own.” Lena Stillman, the narrator of this fine sequel to Speakeasy, knows that our deeds are one ...Read Review
The Blameless Dead
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Described by the publisher as an “epic edge of the seat drama”, The Blameless Dead confirms that claim. The open hostilities of the ...Read Review
Cromwell’s Women
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The cover of Cromwell‘s Women features a Victorian painting of Cromwell’s mother and wife begging him to spare the life of ...Read Review
The Man Who Hated Hickok
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Ira Drang is a former soldier, buffalo hunter, bounty hunter and a dead shot. Now he is “settled down” in Cheyenne and keeps ...Read Review
