A Dark and Twisted Tide by Sharon Bolton, aka S.In her writing, she tries to show her basic belief that most humans are very good. She creates tension without inducing panic and fear in her readers. So she stays for one reason or another even after Hitler begins attacking countries. Juliet’s story is told by her in bits and pieces. ![]() It turns out the apartment belongs to Aunt Lettie and, therefore, now belongs to Caroline. One of the keys fits a small apartment at the top of a building belonging to Luca’s family. They open the past.Ĭaroline, too, manages to find a dark and attractive stranger, Luca, to help her in her quest. This is a tale brimming with secrets, romance, and possibilities, cast against the colorful setting of irresistible Venice. ![]() Good fortune follows Caroline in her quest to find out more of her aunt’s life in Venice and she manages to discover what the keys open. Two women, decades apart, escape to Venice, each forced to grapple with the influence of world events on her own life. They are quite good and Caroline is amazed to find that her aunt had such a passion. Love and secrets collide in Venice during WWII in an enthralling novel of brief encounters and lasting romance by the New York Times bestselling author of The Tuscan Child and Above the Bay of Angels. Among Aunt Lettie’s few possessions are art sketches. Her great-aunt Lettie has died and left her enough money to travel to Venice to scatter her ashes. The story switches often to a story told by Caroline Grant, another Englishwoman, but one whose time is now. Juliet is an adult and Leo is attractive. They only had a day or so at the time, but it was love at first sight and for the ages. For Caroline her time in Venice is valuable in so many ways, she comes to terms with the end of her marriage, she can see things from a different perspective, she has great admiration for her great-aunt Juliet and the lasting legacy she left. She had met him a few years before when an elderly aunt took her to Italy for a cultural tour. The Venice Sketchbook is a story about love, loss, courage, friendship, secrets and self-discovery. Her joy is enhanced by meeting again a dark-haired, dashing Venetian, a count, no less, named Leo. Although she is slightly older than her fellow art students, she still manages to form friendships and have a good time. ![]() Juliet Browning has left her drab, repetitive life in England to study art for one year in Venice. Rhys Bowen - of Evan Evans and Molly Murphy fame - has channeled Mary Stewart and given her readers a novel of love and danger set before and during World War II. It's one that Caroline can now make right again as her own journey of self-discovery begins.“The Venice Sketchbook” has been nominated for an Edgar Award. Key by key, Lettie's life of impossible love, loss, and courage unfolds. Until the threat of war closes in on Venice and they're forced to fight, survive, and protect a secret that will bind them forever. Irresistible split time fiction with secrets, romance and mystery. ![]() However star-crossed, nothing can come between them. The Venice Sketchbook by Rhys Bowen is Historical Mystery Fiction set in World War II Europe. For Juliet, it's poignant memories and a chance to reconnect with Leonardo Da Rossi, the man she loves whose future is already determined by his noble family. For her students, it's a wealth of history, art, and beauty. It's 1938 when art teacher Juliet Browning arrives in romantic Venice. Caroline's quest: to scatter Juliet Lettie Browning's ashes in the city she loved and to unlock the mysteries stored away for more than sixty years. Her beloved great-aunt Lettie leaves her a sketchbook, three keys, and a final whisper.Venice. Caroline Grant is struggling to accept the end of her marriage when she receives an unexpected bequest. April 2021 will mark the publication of THE VENICE SKETCHBOOK-another sweeping historical novel of love, loss and intrigue. Mark Sullivan, author of Beneath a Scarlet Sky Love and secrets collide in Venice during WWII in an enthralling novel of brief encounters and lasting romance by the New York Times bestselling author of The Tuscan Child and Above the Bay of Angels. Rhys Bowen crafts a propulsive, unexpected plot with characters who come vibrantly alive on the page.
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