Jane Jakeman, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $23.95 (355p) ISBN 978-0-425-19512-3
Vivid characters, notably Impressionist painter Claude Monet, distinguish this stand-alone historical by British author Jakeman (Death in the South of France
). The shadow of the 1888 Jack the Ripper murders hangs over Scotland Yard's inquiries...
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Jane Jakeman, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $12 (208p) ISBN 978-0-425-19812-4
British author Jakeman (In the Kingdom of Mists
) introduces an intriguing Byronic hero in this first of a new series with stylistic overtones evocative of the Brontë sisters. Scarred by wounds received in the Greek fight for independence, Lord
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Jane Jakeman, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $13 (272p) ISBN 978-0-7472-1893-7
Set in 1830, Jakeman's engrossing second Lord Ambrose Malfine historical (after 2004's Let There Be Blood
) evokes the classic 19th-century suspense novels of the likes of Wilkie Collins and Sheridan Le Fanu. When Malfine investigates a...
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Jane Jakeman, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $13 (248p) ISBN 978-0-425-20777-2
In Jakeman's ingeniously plotted third Lord Ambrose historical (after 2005's The Egyptian Coffin
), the relationship between Lord Ambrose and Elisabeth Anstruther deepens, despite her rejection of his marriage proposal. In May of 1833,...
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Jane Jakeman, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $23.95 (312p) ISBN 978-0-425-20981-3
Set in Venice in 1908, Jakeman's second novel to feature Claude Monet (after 2005's In the Kingdom of Mists
) offers a complex and shadowy plot in the tradition of Daphne du Maurier's Don't Look Now
. Revel Callender, an English...
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Jane Jakeman, Author Allison & Busby $24.95 (274p) ISBN 978-0-7490-0555-9
Cannes is a city of ""dreams and sleaze"" and, it turns out, brutal serial murders, in Jane Jakeman's (Let There Be Blood) Death in the South of France. Charlie Cashel is called away from his tumultuous life in England to identify his sister's...
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Jane Jakeman, Author Berkley Publishing Group $13 (263p) ISBN 978-0-425-20541-9
Set in 1830, Jakeman's engrossing second Lord Ambrose Malfine historical (after 2004's Let There Be Blood ) evokes the classic 19th-century suspense novels of the likes of Wilkie Collins and Sheridan Le Fanu. When Malfine investigates a riding...
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