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Get ready for a thrilling new mystery series from the author of The Honeybee Emeralds. Ottawa, January 2010. Canada's historic Dominion Archives. Junior archivist Jess Kendall is struggling to find her footing in her new role. Her colleagues undermine her, her boss hates her, and her only romantic prospect hides a whiskey bottle in his desk. Desperate to make a good impression, Jess's luck begins to change when she discovers a series of mysterious letters chronicling life in Paris at the start of the Great War. Thinking she has landed her ticket to career advancement, Jess dives into research in Dominion's art vault, where she stumbles upon the body of one of her colleagues. As if finding a corpse isn't frightening enough, Jess soon notices she is being stalked by a menacing figure. It's only when Jess makes the connection between the letters, the murder, and a priceless Rembrandt that she realizes just how high the stakes are. Can Jess salvage her career, unravel a World War I-era mystery, shake off her ominous stalker, solve a murder, and--oh yeah--save her own life before it's too late?… (mehr)
"It is the aim ... of Rembrandt to paint the foulest things he could see by rushlight." Jess Kendall is an intern with Canada's Dominion Archives when she finds a body in the art vault. Who killed him, and what was their motive? The murder coincides with a discovery in a new archives acquisition, and Jess begins to wonder if there's a connection.
There's an interesting transition for Jess over the course of the novel, as she goes from wide-eyed newcomer struggling for a job and stumbling over a body to becoming integral to the murder investigation and puts solving the mystery ahead of her career. At the same time there's a matching tonal shift, from a breezy fish-out-of-water story to real danger.
Jess is well drawn and I liked the secondary romance plot, but this is less character-driven than the author's first novel: this time, it's mystery first. Clues and suspects abound, so which of them are red herrings and which are the real deal? There were enough moving pieces to keep the solution well obscured until the conclusion. Jess tackles her naivete head-on and is ready to suspect anyone, which I appreciated, but even she gets caught by surprise. ( )
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Get ready for a thrilling new mystery series from the author of The Honeybee Emeralds. Ottawa, January 2010. Canada's historic Dominion Archives. Junior archivist Jess Kendall is struggling to find her footing in her new role. Her colleagues undermine her, her boss hates her, and her only romantic prospect hides a whiskey bottle in his desk. Desperate to make a good impression, Jess's luck begins to change when she discovers a series of mysterious letters chronicling life in Paris at the start of the Great War. Thinking she has landed her ticket to career advancement, Jess dives into research in Dominion's art vault, where she stumbles upon the body of one of her colleagues. As if finding a corpse isn't frightening enough, Jess soon notices she is being stalked by a menacing figure. It's only when Jess makes the connection between the letters, the murder, and a priceless Rembrandt that she realizes just how high the stakes are. Can Jess salvage her career, unravel a World War I-era mystery, shake off her ominous stalker, solve a murder, and--oh yeah--save her own life before it's too late?
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There's an interesting transition for Jess over the course of the novel, as she goes from wide-eyed newcomer struggling for a job and stumbling over a body to becoming integral to the murder investigation and puts solving the mystery ahead of her career. At the same time there's a matching tonal shift, from a breezy fish-out-of-water story to real danger.
Jess is well drawn and I liked the secondary romance plot, but this is less character-driven than the author's first novel: this time, it's mystery first. Clues and suspects abound, so which of them are red herrings and which are the real deal? There were enough moving pieces to keep the solution well obscured until the conclusion. Jess tackles her naivete head-on and is ready to suspect anyone, which I appreciated, but even she gets caught by surprise. (