This newest Bohjalian book will be out in early July.
~ Katherine
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
52 Weeks 52 Books ~ Week Ending May 27, 2013
A LIGHT IN THE RUINS by Chris Bohjalian
Two parallel stories: one takes place in 1943 and involves a wealthy Italian family, the Rosatis, who uneasily extend their hospitality to the occupying Germans while their young daughter falls in love with one of the German soldiers, as partisans hide in an Etruscan burial site on their property. The second story, in 1955, follows a detective in Florence, Serafina Bettini, with her own emotional and physical scars from the war, who is assigned the murder investigation of a gruesome series of killings targeting the Rosati family.
Serafina follows a trail that suggests the murders point to events that
occurred the war, and finds her own history intertwined with the Rosati
family. And interspersed, the voice of the killer, expressing his hatred of the family, and cruelly plotting their murders. Part mystery, part love story, part tale of revenge--Chris Bohjalian has written a story filled with flawed, damaged and spirited characters, set against the Tuscany hills.
This newest Bohjalian book will be out in early July.
~ Katherine
This newest Bohjalian book will be out in early July.
~ Katherine
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A Broken Vessel - Julian Kestrel, Bk 2
Author: Kate Ross
Julian Kestrel stalks a diabolical killer through high places and low life in Regency England. — In London's notorious Haymarket district, Sally Stokes, a bold and bewitching Cockney prostitute, picks up three men one after the other and nicknames them Bristles, Blue Eyes, and Blinkers. From each of them Sally steals a handkerchief -- and from one of them she mistakenly steals a letter that contains an urgent plea for help from a distraught young woman.
Luckily, Sally's brother is none other than Dipper, reformed pickpocket and valet to gifted amateur sleuth Julian Kestrel. After the writer of the letter is found dead, the authorities dismiss her death as suicide. But to Kestrel it looks like murder, and he forms an unlikely -- but highly entertaining -- alliance with Sally to track down the three clients. The two embark on a quest that leads them from a house of reclamation for fallen women to the abodes of England's highest-ranking families as they race to unmask a dangerous killer.
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