While this is a stand alone contemporary spy novel, it plays with the past catching up and haunting us, and it provides us with visions and glimpses of characters we now know to be other people in other times.
I used to teach "My Last Duchess" back in my college lecturer years, and this book jumps off of Browning's poem and provides the back story to the painting in question. It's imaginative, and lush, and evocative of the time.
WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION FINALIST • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The author of award-winning Hamnet brings the world of Renaissance Italy to jewel-bright life in this unforgettable fictional portrait of the captivating young duchess Lucrezia de' Medici as she makes her way in a troubled court.
“I could not stop reading this incredible true story.” —Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club Pick)
"O’Farrell pulls out little threads of historical detail to weave this story of a precocious girl sensitive to the contradictions of her station...You may know the history, and you may think you…
This is Martin Cruz Smith's last book, and was released just days after his death. I have learned so much through the years from reading his books...he was a master. RIP, Martin Cruz Smith . Long live Arkady Renko.
The second Imogene Durant adventure, set in Ireland, where Imogene has gone to finish writing up her Paris adventures. She finds herself enmeshed in a policy inquiry when her friend's daughter is suspected of murder.
