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Historical Mystery

Viking Adult
April 2013
On Sale: April 4, 2013
416 pages
ISBN: 0670025933
EAN: 9780670025930
Kindle: B008EKOHJI
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Beverly Swerling

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In the tradition of Kate Mosse, a swiftly-paced mystery that
stretches from modern London to Tudor England

In modern-day London, architectural historian and recovering
alcoholic Annie Kendall hopes to turn her life around and
restart her career by locating several long-missing pieces
of ancient Judaica. Geoff Harris, an investigative reporter,
is soon drawn into her quest, both by romantic interest and
suspicions about the head of the Shalom Foundation, the
organization sponsoring her work. He’s also a dead ringer
for the ghost of a monk Annie believes she has seen at the
flat she is subletting in Bristol House.

In 1535, Tudor London is a very different city, one in which
monks are being executed by Henry VIII and Jews are
banished. In this treacherous environment of religious
persecution, Dom Justin, a Carthusian monk, and a goldsmith
known as the Jew of Holborn must navigate a shadowy world of
intrigue involving Thomas Cromwell, Jewish treasure, and
sexual secrets. Their struggles shed light on the mysteries
Annie and Geoff aim to puzzle out—at their own peril.

This riveting dual-period narrative seamlessly blends a
haunting supernatural thriller with vivid historical
fiction. Beverly Swerling, widely acclaimed for her City of
Dreams series, delivers a bewitching and epic story of a
historian and a monk, half a millennium apart, whose
destinies are on a collision course.