Mary Ryan, Author Thomas Dunne Books $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-26648-6
In the tradition of du Maurier and Bront , prolific Irish author Ryan (The Promise, Mask of the Night) offers an eerie tale of love, madness and ancient curses set in modern Ireland. Built in 1850, Dunbeg, the O'Malley family ""castle,"" has a...
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Mary Ryan, Author St. Martin's Press $24.94 (503p) ISBN 978-0-312-08797-5
Heavy-handed foreshadowing and a slow pace mar this historical novel, which chronicles its heroine's involvement with an Irish estate and its owners, the Fitzallens. Peg Donlon first visits Glenallen as a schoolgirl in the early 1930s, when she...
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Mary Ryan, Author St. Martin's Press $22.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-20571-3
From a bestselling author in Ireland, this romantic novel portrays the midlife spiritual crisis of a repressed, divorced stockbroker yearning for his lost youth. After Colm Nugent's long-suffering wife accuses him of being ""cold"" and leaves him...
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Mary Ryan, Author St. Martin's Press $21.95 (277p) ISBN 978-0-312-13168-5
Ryan's (Mask of the Night) tone is more than a bit strident in this polemical look at oppression of females in modern Ireland, and she sacrifices some credibility of plot to sledgehammer her point home. The narrative first foreshadows the futures of
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Mary Ryan, Author St. Martin's Press $23.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-14427-2
England and Ireland are the settings for Ryan's new romance (after Whispers in the Wind). Narrator Daniel, the son of a diplomat, is a teenager when he falls in love with his best friend Kieran's cousin Helen. The distant but hugely charming Kieran...
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Mary Ryan, Author St. Martin's Press $22.95 (312p) ISBN 978-0-312-16925-1
Beyond-the-grave passion entwines lives from 17th-century Italy to 1960s Ireland in this fanciful tale of reincarnation and magic from Irish fantasist Ryan (Glenallen). Near the end of WWI, young Jenny Stephenson finds an antique carnival mask and,...
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