Books by Rebecca Alexander and Complete Book Reviews
Rebecca Alexander. Broadway, $15 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-0-8041-4068-3
The 16th-century storyline in this paranormal thriller debut is gripping, featuring both Countess Elisabeth Báthory, said to have slaughtered 80 girls and bathed in their blood to stay young, and John Dee, necromancer and advisor to Queen Elizabeth.
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Rebecca Alexander. Broadway, $15 ISBN 978-0-8041-4070-6
This awkward sequel to 2014’s The Secrets of Life and Death shares that volume’s strengths and weaknesses. Once again, the sections set in the past are much more compelling than those in the present. Edward Kelley, the real-life assistant to 16th-cen
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Rebecca Alexander, with Sascha Alper. Gotham Books, $27 (256p) ISBN 978-1-5924-0831-3
In her profoundly inspiring account of life with a disease that is steadily stealing her vision and hearing and has been since childhood, Alexander offers an optimist’s take on how to live with meaning and not succumb to pity or fear. It isn’t until
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Rebecca Alexander. Titan, $14.95 trade paper (480p) ISBN 978-1-7856-5621-7
Set on the Isle of Wight, this suspenseful mystery from British author Alexander (The Secrets of Blood and Bone) fuses the secrets of Renaissance-era alchemy and the knowledge wielded by modern archeology. When Sage Westfield, an archeologist hired...
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