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Fatlands: A Hannah Wolfe Crime Novel (Hannah Wolfe Crime Novels)

5 reviews
Sarah Dunant

Scribner, 2004

A great, female detective in London
I love this series. I am primarily a mystery reader, and this is a series for those of you who are looking for something new must try. Hannah Wolfe is tough yet feminine and real. This is a great series for those who enjoy a good mystery that is not too cosy or hard boiled. Hannah is sort of a free-lance detective in London, but she travels all over. She is human but never a pathetic ...

Snowstorms in a Hot Climate: A Novel

1 review
Sarah Dunant

Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2005

Snowstorms in a Hot Climate
Another fabulous Sarah Dunant novel. This incredible storyteller has done it again! Snowstorms uses cocaine dealing as a vehicle to have the heroine, Marla, confront Lenny the anti-hero coke dealer. It is Britian vs America; a fight to the finish. Both intellectuals, they vie for the affection of petite, beautiful,Elly who is torn between the love of her best friend, who is trying to rekindle a ...

The Birth of Venus

272 reviews
Sarah Dunant

Little, Brown, 2003

A rich novel
Don't let the naysayers dissuade you from reading this book. If you love English literature, you will love this book.

Under My Skin: A Hannah Wolfe Mystery

3 reviews
Sarah Dunant

Scribner, 1995

gracefully feminist
Are women supposed to age gracefully? Rage rage against the dying of the light in the eye of the beholder? This book examines the question from several perspectives. Hannah Wolfe is hired to save a spa from a trickster; she ends up in a murder investigation. While she sorts through what she thinks of women who have their faces sliced, she also confronts her own scars - physical and other - ...

Mapping the Edge

43 reviews
Sarah Dunant

Virago Press Ltd, 1999

compelling read
i read this book awhile ago..It has the same structure as "devil in the white city"..a duality in the story exists..One chapter goes into the psyche of the characters,the back story..the next chapter deals with the intense plot...So the reader goes on this up and down ride.I particuarly liked the compelling issues it raises. about art.women,men .children and also the white knuckle ride of the ...

Birth Marks

4 reviews
Sarah Dunant

Penguin, 1992

this is a very well-written mystery
I'm surprised that there are not a lot of glowing reviews on Amazon of "Birth Marks" by Sarah Dunant. It was first printed in 1992, and my edition was printed in 2005, so there has been plenty of time for readers to discover the Hannah Wolfe series by this excellent author. There are at least three Hannah Wolfe mysteries: "Birth Marks", "Fat Lands", and "Under My Skin". These are not re-runs of ...

In the Company of the Courtesan

89 reviews
Sarah Dunant

audible.com

GREAT READ!
I enjoyed "The Birth of Venus" written by the same author, so I knew that I was in for a treat. "In the Company of the Courtesan" exceeded all of my expectations. It really transports the reader back to life in Venice in the early 1600's. The main characters, Fiametta and her dwarf companion, Bucino, are interesting, engaging and vivid; their story of survival and intrigue kept me thinking ...

Transgressions

10 reviews
Sarah Dunant

Warner Books, 1998

The Road Less Traveled: Examining Inner Life
I admire Sarah Dunant as an author because she has the ability to flay open her psyche and share it with us readers. In Transgressions this took courage because it is politically incorrect to imply that rape could be so complex as to (under the right circumstances) sexually stimulate the "victim" as well as the rapist. She also explores the complexity of a rapists motives. This isn't the usual ...

In the Company of a Courtesan

1 review
Sarah Dunant

Books on Tape, 2006

interesting, intriguing story; narrator pulls you in
The topic of sex in Italian society ca. 1500-and something is tantalizing enough, but what kept me plodding through 12 CD's and that many hours of listening on my repeated commutes was narrator Stephen Hoye. Really, his sexy voice, the various characters he portrays with subtle differences in tone and accent are absolutely transporting in effect. I'm sold--I'll listen to anything he narrates, ...

Age of Anxiety

Virago Press Ltd, 1997

THE BIRTH OF VENUS
SARAH DUNANT

RANDOM HOUSE, 2002

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