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A Provençal Mystery (Mysteries in Provence Book 1) (English Edition) Formato Kindle

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Why did a nun in a seventeenth-century convent flagellate herself until her blood spattered the wall? Why did nuns save a child doomed to death in the Holocaust and who wanted her killed? Who wants a lost head-shaped reliquary that holds something other than a head? And are answers to these questions the key to a terrible modern-day death in a quiet archive?

When American historian Pandora (Dory) Ryan finds a very rare, uncataloged seventeenth century nun’s diary inside a record book at the provincial archives in Avignon, she is thrilled. This is historian’s treasure. But she doesn’t know yet that it will send her on a search that brings about changes in how she feels about her profession, the irrational, and love with a sexy Frenchman. And it will take her from the archive on a dangerous adventure into the countryside of Provence, which, beautiful as it is, has a long and bloody history.

The archive’s dramatis personae: the grumpy archivist, with his paper-clip chains; the gofer, who smokes Gauloises and gets away with far too much; a nun with a sense of humor who harangues high school kids about sex; the nun's glamorous sidekick; a famous American historian, whose requests for documents are inexplicably denied; the eminent professor, destined to fall in love; his nervous graduate student. And that sexy Frenchman, who isn’t who he says he is.
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Ann Elwood lives in Cardiff-by-the-Sea, California, with six cats, a desert tortoise, seven box turtles, and a German shepherd, Louis. She grew up in Saddle River, New Jersey. After college, she taught elementary school for a few miserable years, then moved to the Philadelphia area and landed a job as a typist-clerk at the Philadelpha Bulletin. When her boss discovered she had difficulty typing up circulation figures with twelve carbons, she was fired and found another job writing copy for a paternalistic insurance company that offered a low salary and delicious free lunch. One of the typesetters had the magical ability to square up a stack of paper into a perfect cube. Eventually she moved to a studio apartment on Irving Place in New York City, and, after a few months of writing copy for a textbook company, went on to freelance as a writer of anything anyone would pay her for. In 1967, she moved to Los Angeles, where she was advertising manager for a publishing company. Then the West Coast was a mecca for writers and adventurers. Within a couple of years, she visited a Malibu beach house, fell in love (long-distance) with Bob Dylan, met Thomas Pynchon (he wouldn’t remember it), and saw Hair. In 1972, she returned to freelancing. The following year she moved to Cardiff. She wrote articles for Irving Wallace and his son, David Wallichinsky, (People’s Almanac and Book of Lists), and did other wonderful things she won’t mention here. With Carol Orsag Madigan, she wrote several non-fiction books. A desire to delve more deeply into ideas finally drove her to graduate school in 1981. Her dissertation focused on an order of 17th and 18th century French nuns so she had to spend a happy year in France doing research. While not in the archives, she drank local wine with fellow historians and traveled the country with her dog, Puppy, who had far less trouble than she did communicating with the French. Now, she teaches history part-time at California State University, San Marcos, spends time with Louis and the other animals, and writes the books she has always wanted to write but never had the time for.

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Carrie Kilgore
4,0 su 5 stelle Delicious read
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 29 agosto 2013
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Good writing, an engaging heroine, and an intriguing tale that reaches from bygone centuries to impact the present. It's so refreshing that the author does not overwhelm with the story from the past, but lets it unfold as our heroine historian discovers it. The diary she finds is laden with the right amount of information to feed the plot, but with the limited view of that individual. I appreciated that rather than fill in all the blanks (as many novice writers tend to do), the author kept us firmly within her central character's point of view as a historian, theorizing as to how seemingly disparate bits of information fit in the puzzle. I can definitely see this heroine showing up in additional tales.

So why did I not give it 5 stars? The final bit was less polished than the rest. Although it doesn't detract too much from overall enjoyment of the book, there's a sense that a deadline popped up too soon or that the author just got tired of writing. There are still a few copy errors and some awkward transitions. It was also a bit of a stretch that the second part of the diary is found so easily. Much better, perhaps, to have been satisfied with clues garnered from the original find (or have someone from the present steal pivotal pages that could then be retrieved/confessed). As far as taking a dog from the US to France (and returning), it would help to tick off a few of the conditions and at least muse on the hazard (pets sometimes suffer or die in transit).

Still, a highly enjoyable read that I recommend.

I was delighted to find the book longish compared to many ebooks, but less delighted with the smaller print used. This may be an issue for some.
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Susie Haywood
4,0 su 5 stelle Really enjoyable read
Recensito nel Regno Unito il 3 marzo 2013
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I found this a great mystery, with lots of great colour - both historical and modern day - to keep my attention.

Nice prose, interesting characters, and a real sense of drama, without being over the top.

I liked the flashbacks, and thought they lent a nice dramatic support to the modern day story - and from time to time I could almost catch a whiff of "old church"in the evocative descriptions of the convent and other old buildings around Avignon.
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Victoria Bynum
5,0 su 5 stelle A Provencal Mystery
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 20 settembre 2012
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What could a nun's 17th century diary, the daring rescue of a Jewish child from Nazi Germany, and an American historian, Pandora "Dory" Ryan, conducting research in the Archives de Vaucluse of Avignon, France, possibly have in common? Well, they just might all be connected to a modern-day murder in which several suspects have intriguing connections to one, two, or all three of these events, separated though they are by time and distance.
Drawing on her sure knowledge of French convents and archives (based on her own years of historical research) , and her keen insights into human character, Ann Elwood offers a mystery that keeps the reader wondering just who murdered--well, no, I'll not give away the victim's name!
As for who committed the heinous crime, suffice to say there are plenty of suspects, all of them moving in and out of the Avignon Archives, thereby forcing Dory Ryan to transform herself from historian into sleuth. Dory's research skills serve her well--particularly her discovery of a lost diary full of clues--in the setting of this quiet research center suddenly turned crime scene.
Just who among those gathered at the archive might be a murderer? The brilliant, aloof Rachel Marchand, she of the mysterious historical mission? The conceited Professor Fitzroy, or perhaps his sidekick, Jack, a pompous, insecure graduate student? Or could it be Chateaublanc, the sourly arrogant archivist himself--or even his smirky assistant, Griset?
Or might the murderer be someone from outside the archive? The list goes on, the characters ranging from those you love to those you love to hate. This story is great fun, and author Ann Elwood has made certain that half the fun is figuring who among her cast of characters is capable of murder--and why.
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Mrs Christmas
5,0 su 5 stelle Elwood serves up a plate of bitter tasting history
Recensito nel Regno Unito il 1 ottobre 2012
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The premise of the novel is good with a very well-drawn central character, a late blooming middle-aged historian with many battles left to fight to against the dusty old academic establishment. The interesting thing is that she is female and through excellent plotting Ann Elwood makes some salient points about the treatment of women down the ages whilst taking othing away from the book being an excellent murder mystery in it's own right.

Personally I think this right up there with The Labrynth by Kate Mosse and I actually found the voices in the flashback sections less annoying!
Hope there is more to come from this writer and this character.
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Chris
3,0 su 5 stelle Nice diversion
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 21 settembre 2016
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I had just finished reading a more serious book so I was looking for something easy, and this novel fit the bill. It's a fun book, reads quickly. The story is a little improbable, but I was okay with that until the last few pages when it really got kind of ridiculous.

The beginning, where a young Jewish girl is being taken to a convent to hide from the Nazis, is compelling and drew me in but then was only peripheral to the story. The narrator, Pandora "Dory" Ryan, is somewhat likeable but the background she tells about herself doesn't ring true with how she presents herself. It's almost as if the author thought such a background sounded "cool" but really had no feel for it. It doesn't matter much for the story but is just odd and a little offputting.

Basically, this is a mystery, as the title says, and as such the characters aren't fully fleshed out. It's more about the story. The seventeenth century diary Dory finds, which is pivotal to the story, surely would not be written in 21st century style, language, etc., with the diary writer actually writing at times in dialogue like it's a script, so this took away from any authenticity of the story.

The Kindle version I read had some formatting issues, such as misplaced hyphens and lack of breaks where they were clearly needed, and though minor, they did pull me out of the story. I probably only paid a dollar or two for it so I guess this may be expected, but I still wish it were cleaner.

It was a good one-time read.
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