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City of Shadows: A Novel of Suspense
by Ariana Franklin
from William Morrow

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• City of Shadows Reviewer: Colleen Booth, Seattle
  A great read. I couldn't put it down. Ms Franklin's mixing of technology from different decades is a minor distraction. Just suspend disbelief and enjoy.

• Among the Best
  Franklin is as fine an historian as she is a novelist. This foray into Nazi Germany and the cult of Anastasia is no less finely wrought than her ventures into the Late Middle Ages. I found myself anguished with and by the novel's folk.

• Inventive Plot
  
  Ariana Franklin is the pseudonym of a well-known author of historical novels, Diana Norman, wife of the film critic Barry Norman. She is a former Fleet Street Reporter and lives in Hertfordshire.
  Having read the author's other two books, the Mistress of the Art of Death and The Serpent's Tale, I decided to try this novel written before the above two. Although this book was an interesting read I cannot say that I enjoyed it as much as the above two, possibly because they were medieval novels, a... more info

• One of the Best Books I Have Ever Read
  My husband and I purchased this book to read on vacation. We paced ourselves so we could make the book last longer. The story, characters, writing was so compelling, very hard to put down. Ariana Franklin is an excellent writer, I am SO glad I found her, and yes I have read her other books which are equally well written. This is a historical mystery, but we were disturbed by the parallels with our current political situation in the U.S. Especially when we came through Customs and Immigration at Los Angeles... more info

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