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THE DEVLIN DIARY
By Christi Phillips
“Fans of historical romance and traditional whodunits alike will welcome Phillips’s second novel….Phillips’s command of period detail and her sure touch with emotional relationships help make this a stand-out.”
—Publishers Weekly STARRED Review
“Engaging…Sure to appeal to fans of Phillipa Gregory.”—Booklist
“A thrilling reading experience….An excellent suggestion for the fans of literary historical thrillers like Jennifer Lee Carrell’s Interred with Their Bones.”
—Library Journal
A diary holds the key to a centuries-old mystery…
Acclaimed author Christi Phillips first introduced readers to modern-day historian sleuths Claire Donovan and Andrew Kent in her dazzling debut The Rossetti Letter. That fast-paced mystery and elegant romance alternated between the present day and the magical and seductive world of 17th century Venice. Now, Claire and Andrew are back in a new novel of intrigue and passion that tantalizingly shifts between present-day Cambridge, England and Restoration-era London. In THE DEVLIN DIARY (Pocket Books; May 2009; $25.00), the modern historians attempt to solve a murder by uncovering secrets from the 1670s.
London, 1672: A vicious killer stalks the court of Charles II, inscribing his victims’ bodies with mysterious markings. Are the murders the random acts of a madman— or the consequences of a deeply hidden conspiracy?
Cambridge, present day: Teaching history at Trinity College is Claire Donovan’s dream come true. But two months into the job, things aren’t going as well as she hoped. Things only get worse when one of her colleagues is found dead. Professor Goodman’s death is ruled an accident, but the torn scrap of a page from a diary clutched in his hand leads Claire and her academic mentor, Andrew Kent, to suspect otherwise.
The page is from the seventeenth-century diary kept by Professor Goodman’s last research subject— Hannah Devlin, physician to the king’s mistress. Using the arcane collections of Cambridge’s most eminent libraries, Claire and Andrew follow clues Devlin left behind, and uncover secrets of London’s dark past and Cambridge’s equally murky present. They soon discover that events of three hundred years ago may still have consequences today…
With its rich depiction of history and mesmerizing mystery that spans centuries, THE DEVLIN DIARY is sure to appeal to readers of Philippa Gregory and Sarah Dunant.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Christi Phillips lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her interest in European history has led her all over the continent. She is the author of two novels, THE ROSSETTI LETTER and THE DEVLIN DIARY.
THE DEVLIN DIARY
By Christi Phillips
Pocket Books; Publication Date: May 12, 2009
ISBN 978-1-4165-2739-8; Hardcover; $25.00; 448 pages
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