Lorraine Gelly
Resurrection
In 1947, Gemma Bastian makes a decision to leave London for Cairo upon receiving word of her father’s death. Charles…
The Tell-Tale Corpse
In the latter months of 1845, Edgar Allan Poe was enjoying success as a writer; however, his finances were…
In the City of Dark Waters
In 1908 Revel Callender, an English lawyer, is living in Venice, taking time off to see all that Italy…
The Shape of Sand
In 1910, Harriet Jardine and her siblings left their country manor after their mother’s disappearance and their father’s suicide. From…
The Priest’s Madonna
In 1877, nine-year-old Marie Dernanaud meets Bérenger Saunière on the eve of the feast of St. Mary Magdalene, at the…
Out There In The Dark
Harley Hayden was a bit player in Hollywood in the early ´40s. When the U.S. went to war, many of…
The Dark Side of the Sun
In 1928 Sybil Fox and her daughter Mary come to live at Harding Hall, where Sybil is hired as governess…
O Jerusalem
In Beekeeper’s Apprentice, the first book in this series, a short paragraph covers the Palestine interlude with a promise from…
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