Patricia Finney, Author . St. Martin's $24.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-312-31285-5
Third in a series of related but stand-alone historical thrillers (Unicorn's Blood; Firedrake's Eye
), this brooding, multifaceted tale is set on the eve of the sailing of the Spanish Armada in 1588. David Becket, clerk of the ordnance and...
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Patricia Finney, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (263p) ISBN 978-0-312-07749-5
Forget the publisher's misleading comparisons to the intellectual teasers Possession and The Name of the Rose and enjoy this highly colored historical novel on its own merits. Set in Elizabethan England, it sensuously reconstructs the era's visual...
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Patricia Finney, Author Picador USA $25 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-18201-4
The court of Elizabeth I provides a rich background for this accomplished historical thriller, starring the queen herself. After painstaking research, Finney (Firedrake's Eye) has concocted a very clever scenario to explain how Elizabeth's hand was...
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Patricia Finney, Author, Peter Bailey, Illustrator , illus. by Peter Bailey. HarperCollins $15.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-06-052207-0
The cover photo of a yellow Lab (wearing drawn-on eyeglasses) and the author credit "By Jack, the dog, as told to Patricia Finney," tip readers off to the narrative voice in this labored British import. Jack's rather cloying exuberance...
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Grace Cavendish, Author, Patricia Finney, Author . Delacorte $6.95 (194p) ISBN 978-0-385-73151-5
This snappily paced caper launches the Lady Grace Mysteries, a series of attractively designed and priced paper-over-board volumes written as journal entries in the "daybooke" of a young Maid of Honour to Queen Elizabeth I. On her deathbed a
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