Christi Phillips

A beautifully written historic novel. The author pulls the reader into a novel of intrigue with believable characters and a tale that holds you to the end.

Wonderful fun, snappily written -- this is part historical novel and modern day, with a complicated plot playing out in the past while in the contemporary chapters, a history student tries to figure out what happened (for her dissertation). It's all set in a sparkly, enticing Venice with charm and intrigue and action and romance. The author is very good at playing off the two interleaved sections of her novel and at keeping the suspense going.

I really enjoyed this story, musty old library archives hold a certain appeal. Even more mysterious is what happened to the author, who seems to have disappeared.
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Can't wait to read the first one - The Rossetti Letters. I should have read them in order, but oh well. Still very good. I just love these books told in two time periods. Plus this was historical fiction so I feel like I'm getting a bit smarter while doing something I love - reading:)