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The Cloisters

The Cloisters, November 2022
by Katy Hays

Atria Books
Featuring: Ann
320 pages
ISBN: 1668004402
EAN: 9781668004401
Kindle: B09ZVJX964
Hardcover / e-Book
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"Was it fate?"

Fresh Fiction Review

The Cloisters
Katy Hays

Reviewed by Evie Harris
Posted December 30, 2022

Thriller Paranormal - Supernatural | Thriller Historical

Was it fate? Ann Stillwell couldn't wait to leave her hometown in Washington State.  When the Met offered her a summer position, she couldn't wait to live in New York City.  Once there, she was told the position was no longer available.  Unexpectedly, the curator from the Cloisters offers her a position.  From that moment on, Ann Stillwell enters a new world.

The story deals with the art world and academia with an emphasis on the history of tarot.  The subject matter is fascinating.  In this character-driven novel, the characters are intriguing.  All are deeply flawed, so much so that readers are captivated.  At first, it seems that Ann is a fish out of water in the NYC art world and to some extent this is true.  However, she is a fast learner and as the story progresses she reveals her true self.  She becomes caught up in the web Rachel Monday, the assistant curator, weaves.  Carefully depicted, Rachel might be considered the most terrifying character.  But is she, really?  Leo Bitburg, the Cloister's gardener, is a rough-around-the-edges man with an interesting take on the world.  When the curator is murdered, there is no shortage of suspects.  Why and who had the most to gain?

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SUMMARY

When Ann Stilwell arrives in New York City, she expects to spend her summer working as a curatorial associate at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Instead, she finds herself assigned to The Cloisters, a gothic museum and garden renowned for its medieval art collection and its group of enigmatic researchers studying the history of divination.

Desperate to escape her painful past, Ann is happy to indulge the researchers’ more outlandish theories about the history of fortune telling. But what begins as academic curiosity quickly turns into obsession when Ann discovers a hidden 15th-century deck of tarot cards that might hold the key to predicting the future. When the dangerous game of power, seduction, and ambition at The Cloisters turns deadly, Ann becomes locked in a race for answers as the line between the arcane and the modern blurs.


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