6 books by Elizabeth Edmondson
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Overview: Born in Chile, and educated in Calcutta and London before going to Oxford University, Elizabeth Edmondson now divides her time between the countryside north of Rome and the spires of Oxford. She is married to an art historian and has two children.
Genre: Romance, Mystery
Devil’s Sonata
This haunting tale follows two cursed families in a saga of romance, black magic, and music set in an ancient abbey where the lines between the past 500 years and the present are blurred into oblivion. The handsome, mysteriously compelling owner of Beauregard Abbey, Nicholas Beauregard, must help Zuleika Rathbone as she traces the path of a murderous ancestor, rousing an unimaginable evil centered around a mystical violin. An unlikely romance amidst the havoc wreaked by practitioners of the dark arts takes the reader deep into the thrilling world of the occult.
The Frozen Lake
Fabulous family saga of secrets held through two generations, set against the atmospheric background of the Lake District at Christmas.
The year of 1936 is drawing to a close. Winter grips Wetmoreland and causes a rare phenonmenon: the lakes freeze. For two local families, the Richardsons and the Grindleys, this will bring unexpected upheaval, as the frozen lake entices long-estranged siblings and children to return home for the holiday season.
Some are aware of what is happening in Europe; others don’t want to know. Everyone’s keen to put aside their troubles – money worries, love tangles, career problems, domestic rifts – and enjoy themselves skating while they can. But one visitor carries the seed of violence and not even the redoubtable matriarch of the Richardson clan can prevent the carefully buried secrets of the past from reappearing and transforming everything.
A compelling blend of family closeness and strife, dazzling passion and the dark influence of history, this is an enthralling read to curl up and savour.
The Villa in Italy
Four different people are named in a will – Delia, an opera singer robbed of her voice by illness; George, an idealistic scientist; Marjorie, desperately poor & unable to dislodge her writer’s block; & Lucius, whose personal life is in chaos. This is a tale of four strangers summoned to a grand but neglected villa on the Italian coast.
Voyage of Innocence
What would it take to make you betray your country?
Lies. Pursuit. Treachery. An atmospheric story of youthful idealism, great causes and greater betrayals in the British spy tradition of John Le Carre and Graham Greene.
Oxford, 1932. Verity Trenchard, daughter of a rigid and old-fashioned English clergyman, begins her studies at Grace College among the dreaming spires of Oxford University, tasting the air of freedom after a cold and joyless childhood. Arriving with her are Lady Claudia Vere, her impulsive aristocratic cousin, and Lally Brown, the level-headed daughter of a U.S. senator.
For these best and brightest of their generation, Oxford is a glittering mirage of parties, balls, and adventures, but Verity and Claudia soon see another world underneath. Verity, rejecting her father’s oppressive piety, forms a close friendship with the fiery Communist Alfred Gore, and devotes herself to the struggle against the rising shadow of Fascism. Claudia is seduced by the suave, commanding presence of the pro-German academic John Petrus, who has gathering around him a brilliant intellectual circle.
But neither cause is what it seems, and both are deadly. Trapped by her own actions in a web of manipulation, treachery, and murder, Verity’s path takes her on the wrong side of treason, into a world of faceless men where no-one can be trusted, and where every step on the road takes her deeper into guilt – and further from freedom.
In a final attempt to break free on the eve of war, Verity books passage on a liner to India. But old acquaintances and Russian agents alike are on her trail, forcing her to a desperate course of action to save what remains of her innocence – and her country’s.
Fencing With Death
Budapest in the late nineteen-fifties is no place for an innocent abroad.
Londoner Larry Dunne divides his time between writing bad avant-garde poetry, working in a Bloomsbury bookshop, arguing with his upper-class girlfriend Pamela and putting the world to rights in a dive off the Strand named Joe’s Club in honour of Stalin.
Until one day he applies for a job in Hungary, where he imagines he will at last breathe the purer air of an ideal Socialist State and enjoy universal fellowship and equality.
Off he goes to Budapest, to find that the State runs on envy, paranoia and two-stroke. And soon, despite the attractions of an elegant Hungarian ballerina, Larry wants nothing more than to get back to cosy Bohemian London.
Not so easy, when a neighbour is stabbed to death with a fencing sabre. On the run from ultra-clever investigator Major Nagy, Larry realises he might be in Budapest for a very, very long time.
Unless the murderer is caught.
Finding Philippe
From fog-bound London to sun-drenched France…
1947. Exasperated by her tyrannical family, Vicky escapes from rationing and austerity Britain and flees to the south of France.
But she’s not there just for the glorious food, wine and sunshine: she has an inheritance to claim, and a mystery to solve.
Can she find her wartime husband, Philippe d’Icère? Is he alive or dead? A hero or a traitor? An imposter, or a true Frenchman?
Do the answers lie in the Languedoc village of St Aphrodise, where danger lurks in the ancient streets?
How can she be sure who’s a loyal friend and who a bitter enemy?
Vicky seems destined to fail—or will she, in the end, find out the truth about Philippe?
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