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The Glenister Papers: The Rannoch Fraser Mysteries, cartea 17

Autor Tracy Grant
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 mai 2019
Every spy has a past. But Mélanie Suzanne Rannoch is not prepared to meet her husband Malcolm's past literally walking towards them across a candlelit Mayfair ballroom in the person of brilliant, stunning Katelina Ashford, Malcolm's first love. Nor is she prepared to find that Kitty is a former agent herself, who has come to London seeking Malcolm's help. Mélanie, who misses her own past as a spy, always relishes the intrigue of espionage. But even as Kitty's secret mission unsettles London society, it leaves Mélanie questioning her own assumptions about the man whose name and bed she has shared for seven years. The quest that has brought Kitty to London began in Spain in the tumult of the Napoleonic Wars, but it stretches into some of Britain's most powerful families. From the gritty bustle of Bow Street to the scandalous grottos of Vauxhall, the Rannochs find themselves involved in a search for a mysterious operative known as the Goshawk, a painting that holds the key to unraveling a long-buried secret history, and a fiendishly clever killer working very much in the present. But even as they try to keep the revelations from overturning vital alliances and smashing the lives of their closest friends, Mélanie and Malcolm discover the greatest danger may be to their own personal alliance. "Shimmers like the finest salons in Vienna." -Deborah Crombie "Meticulous, delightful, and full of surprises." -Tasha Alexander "Glittering balls, deadly intrigue, sexual scandals. . .the next best thing to actually being there!"- Lauren Willig "A superb storyteller."- Deanna Raybourn
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ISBN-13: 9781641970914
ISBN-10: 164197091X
Pagini: 516
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: Nancy Yost Literary Agency, INC
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Notă biografică

Tracy (Teresa) Grant studied British history at Stanford University and received the Firestone Award for Excellence in Research for her honors thesis on shifting conceptions of honor in late fifteenth century England. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her young daughter and three cats. In addition to writing, Tracy works for the Merola Opera Program, a professional training program for opera singers, pianists, and stage directors. Her real life heroine is her daughter Mélanie, who is very cooperative about Mummy's writing. Tracy is currently at work on her next historical mystery chronicling the espionage adventures of Regency-era spy couple Malcolm and Mélanie Suzanne Rannoch. That's the short version of my bio. The longer version is that I've been making up stories as long as I can remember and writing them down since third grade when we were assigned writing a story in class and I realized I had a wealth of characters and plots inside my head. My mother, a social psychologist (as was my father), loved books and read out loud to me a great deal. We also went to the movies a lot as a family, particularly old movies. When I was six, we saw the Laurence Olivier-Greer Garson "Pride and Prejudice". I loved it and immediately wanted to read the book (or rather have it read to me). My mom said "I'm not sure you'll like it, but we can try". I thought it was wonderful--to me, at that age, it was a story about girls (older than me but young enough that I could identify with them) dealing with their sisters and parents, growing up, falling in love. (Every time I reread "Pride and Prejudice" I get different things from it, but I was totally hooked at the age of six). Georgette Heyer's novels (which my mom also read aloud to me) cemented by love of the Regency era. My family also went to Shakespeare plays a great deal from when I was quite young. I work Shakespeare parallels and quotes into my books whenever I can, and I get a lot of inspiration from the three trips a year my own daughter and I take to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Other influences on me as a writer range include Dorothy Dunnett, Dorothy Sayers, Tom Stoppard, The Scarlet Pimpernel, and The X-Files. It's hard as a writer and a mom to find time to read, but I try never to miss a new book by Lauren Willig, Deborah Crombie, C.S. Harris, Tasha Alexander, and Deanna Raybourn.