Stef Penney
Author
Language
English
Description
1867. Winter has just tightened its grip on Dove River, an isolated settlement in Canada's Northern Territory, when a man is brutally murdered. A local woman, Mrs. Ross, stumbles upon the crime scene and sees tracks leading from the dead man's cabin north toward the forest and the tundra beyond. But soon she makes another discovery: her son has disappeared and is now considered a prime suspect. A variety of outsiders are drawn to the crime and to...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Hovering between paralysis and delirium in a hospital bed, half-Romany private investigator Ray Lovell evaluates a case involving the missing wife of a charismatic traveling Gypsy whose hostile family is hiding a tragic secret.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In 1870 Paris during the build up to the Franco-Prussian War, a group of unforgettable characters, including a half-Haitian woman with incredible gifts and an American army surgeon, as they live through, and are buffeted by, momentous historical events that will change them forever"--
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A whaler's daughter, Flora Mackie first crossed the Arctic Circle at the age of twelve, falling in love with the cold and unforgiving terrain and forging lifelong bonds with the Inuit people who have carved out an existence on its icy plains. She sets out to become a scientist and polar explorer, despite those who believe that a young woman has no place in this harsh world, and in 1892, her determination leads her back to northern Greenland at the...