The Devlin Diary by Christi Phillips

Rating: BRAG!

The Devlin Diary

by Christi Phillips
Historical Fiction, Mystery
Paperback: 464 pages
Publication Date: April 2010





Verdict
Mesmerizing! The Devlin Diary goes down as one of my all-time favorites! I loved this book.... LOVED IT! Claire and Andrew are history fellows at Trinity, Cambridge and are trying to solve a murder in the current time period. Hannah and Edward are both doctors trying to solve several murders during the 1670's near Whitehall. Mystery, romance, high level vocabulary, history, royalty.... It's got it all! Christi Phillips ability to perfects the details of the time period is astounding. You will lose yourself in this book! Terrific purchase.

Good Reading,
Sarah :)


 

Trinity, Cambridge



Whitehall from St. James Park
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About the Author
Christi Phillips is the author of The Devlin Diary and The Rossetti Letter, which is being translated into eight languages including Russian, German, Spanish and Portuguese. Her research combines a few of her favorite things: old books, libraries, and travel. When she’s not rummaging around in an archive or exploring the historic heart of a European city, she lives with her husband in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she is at work on her next novel, set in France.
http://christi-phillips.com/

Now Reading.... The Devlin Diary by Christi Phillips

The Devlin Diary

by Christi Phillips
Historical Fiction, Mystery
Paperback: 464 pages
Publication Date: April 2010







Cover Description

From the bestselling author of The Rossetti Letter comes a “thrilling” (Library Journal) novel of intrigue, passion, and royal secrets that shifts tantalizingly between Restoration-era London and present-day Cambridge, England. London, 1672. A vicious killer stalks the court of Charles II, inscribing the victims’ bodies with mysterious markings.Are the murders the random acts of a madman?Or the violent effects of a deeply hidden conspiracy?
Cambridge, 2008. Teaching history at Trinity College is Claire Donovan’s dream come true—until one of her colleagues is found dead on the banks of the River Cam. The only key to the professor’s unsolved murder is the seventeenth-century diary kept by his last research subject, Hannah Devlin, physician to the king’s mistress. Through the arcane collections of Cambridge’s most eminent libraries, Claire and fellow historian Andrew Kent follow the clues Hannah left behind, uncovering secrets of London’s dark past and Cambridge’s murky present and discovering that the events of three hundred years ago still have consequences today. . . .

Good Reading,
Sarah :)