Sarah Dunant, Author . Random $24.95 (397p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6073-3
In this arresting tale of art, love and betrayal in 15th-century Florence, the daughter of a wealthy cloth merchant seeks the freedom of marriage in order to paint, but finds that she may have bought her liberty at the cost of love and true...
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Sarah Dunant, Author . Random $23.95 (371p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6381-9
Renaissance Italy enchants in Dunant's delicious second historical (after The Birth of Venus
), as a wily dwarf Bucino Teodoldo recounts fantastic escapades with his mistress, celebrated courtesan Fiammetta Bianchini. Escaping the 1527 sacking...
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Sarah Dunant, Author . Random $25 (415p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6382-6
Dunant (The Birth of Venus
) revisits 16th-century Italy, where the convents are filled with the daughters of noblemen who are unable or unwilling to pay a dowry to marry them off. The Santa Caterina convent’s newest novice, Serafina, is...
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Sarah Dunant, Author Doubleday Books $17 (0p) ISBN 978-0-385-42318-2
The tough-as-nails young female sleuth who debuts here is London-based private eye Hannah Wolfe. Hired by an aging former dancer to find a lithe and pretty ballet prodigy who has gone missing, Hannah learns that young Carolyn Hamilton, whose nerves...
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Sarah Dunant, Author O. Penzler Books $21 (214p) ISBN 978-1-883402-82-2
Although plenty of mystery authors are currently rounding up the usual suspects from the ranks of the animal rights movement, Dunant (Birth Marks) claims the territory for her own in this fine work, thanks principally to her sharply ironic,...
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Sarah Dunant, Author Scribner Book Company $20 (288p) ISBN 978-0-684-81521-3
At Castle Dean health spa in Berkshire, someone is out for revenge. Carp have been boiled in the spa's Jacuzzi, maggots mixed into the yogurt and acid blended into the massage cream. Initially reluctant to take the case, British PI Hannah Wolfe (last
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Sarah Dunant, Author ReganBooks $24 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-039248-2
There's a lot of showy exposition about the complicated ebb and flow of sexual power and violence, but, in the end, this thriller is about cheap thrills. Dunant, author of the popular Hannah Wolfe mystery series (Under My Skin, 1995, etc.), tells...
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Sarah Dunant, Author Random House (NY) $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-375-50323-8
What happened to Anna Franklin? That's the question posed in Dunant's latest novel, detailing five days in the life of those close to an English journalist who heads off on a short holiday and doesn't return when she is expected. Waiting anxiously...
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Sarah Dunant. Random House, $28 (448p) ISBN 978-0-8129-9697-5
Renaissance doyenne Dunant (Blood and Beauty) turns her sights once again on the Borgia family. Pope Alexander VI is firmly entrenched in his powerful position, consumed with revenge against his enemies. His ambitious son, Cesare—with access to the...
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Sarah Dunant, Author, Sarah Duant, Author Random House (NY) $15.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-394-57018-1
It's unusual to find a credible friendship between women blended into the pages of a tightly written thriller, but Dunant's first novel rises well above the genre's watermark. A shaky summons from her estranged friend Elly draws Marla from the cool...
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