ISBN: 9780312424589
Published by Picador on November 15th 2004
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Pages: 336
Len's Summary: A young, polio-crippled Frenchwoman, Mathilde Donnay, investigates the web of deception that shrouds the fate of five soldiers condemned for self-inflicted wounds. All five, including her fiancé, are reported dead. Refusing to believe this, the shrewd Mathilde hires a private detective, enlists the help of family and acquaintance and travels far and wide to unravel the cover-up and find her missing lover. Told at many levels and in many voices, the is at once a war novel, mystery and a love story.. The author uses many techniques including documents, flashbacks and brief, but brilliant character sketches to paint a vivid vision of wartime and postwar France. Winner of the prestigious Prix Interallie in 1991, and a best-seller in France, this novel received well deserved praise in the United States when it was first published here in translation in 1996. A movie based on it was released in 2004 and was subsequently nominated for two Academy Awards.
An Incomplete Revenge: A Maisie Dobbs Novel
An Incomplete Revenge: A Maisie Dobbs Novel by Jacqueline Winspear
ISBN: 9780312428181
Published by Picador on November 25th 2008
Genres: Fiction, Mystery & Detective
Pages: 352
ISBN: 9780312428181
Published by Picador on November 25th 2008
Genres: Fiction, Mystery & Detective
Pages: 352
Len's Summary: Fifth in the Maisie Dobbs series of crime novels with a WWI tie-in investigated by a British wartime VAD nurse turned private eye.
Among the Mad: A Maisie Dobbs Novel
Among the Mad: A Maisie Dobbs Novel by Jacqueline Winspear
ISBN: 9780312429256
Published by Picador on November 24th 2009
Genres: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Women Sleuths, Historical
Pages: 336
ISBN: 9780312429256
Published by Picador on November 24th 2009
Genres: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Women Sleuths, Historical
Pages: 336
Len's Summary: In her sixth Maisie Dobbs detective novel, Winspear has her heroine join a high power Scotland Yard team in attempting to forestall cataclysmic disaster in 1931 London. Maisie, a WWI VAD, again uses her WWI experience to crack the case.
Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy
Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy by Douglas Smith
ISBN: 9781250037794
Published by Picador on September 24th 2013
Genres: History, Europe, Former Soviet Republics, Russia & the Former Soviet Union
Pages: 528
ISBN: 9781250037794
Published by Picador on September 24th 2013
Genres: History, Europe, Former Soviet Republics, Russia & the Former Soviet Union
Pages: 528
Len's Summary: How Russian nobility coped with revolution chronicling the fate of two great Russian families the Sheremetevs and the Golitsyns. The author is former president of the Eastern Front Association. A History Book Club selection.