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Learn moreIn the tradition of Kate Mosse, a swiftly-paced mystery that stretches from modern London to Tudor England
In modern-day London, architectural historian and recovering alcoholic Annie Kendall hopes to turn her life around and restart her career by locating several long-missing pieces of ancient Judaica. Geoff Harris, an investigative reporter, is soon drawn into her quest, both by romantic interest and suspicions about the head of the Shalom Foundation, the organization sponsoring her work. Heās also a dead ringer for the ghost of a monk Annie believes she has seen at the flat she is subletting in Bristol House.
In 1535, Tudor London is a very different city, one in which monks are being executed by Henry VIII and Jews are banished. In this treacherous environment of religious persecution, Dom Justin, a Carthusian monk, and a goldsmith known as the Jew of Holborn must navigate a shadowy world of intrigue involving Thomas Cromwell, Jewish treasure, and sexual secrets. Their struggles shed light on the mysteries Annie and Geoff aim to puzzle outāat their own peril.
This riveting dual-period narrative seamlessly blends a haunting supernatural thriller with vivid historical fiction. Beverly Swerling, widely acclaimed for her City of Dreams series, delivers a bewitching and epic story of a historian and a monk, half a millennium apart, whose destinies are on a collision course.
Beverly SwerlingĀ is the author of many novels, including the City of Dreams series, a four-volume historical saga set in old New York. She is also a consultant to other authors and is an amateur historian. She lives in Philadelphia but considers New York her home base.
Kristen SiehĀ is a founding member of New York based theater company The TEAM. She has performed at theaters all around the world and in theaterĀ festivals throughout Europe and Asia. Her television credits includeĀ Boardwalk EmpireĀ andĀ Law & Order.
James LangtonĀ trained as an actor at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. AnĀ AudioFileĀ Earphones Award winner, he has performed many voice-overs and narrated numerous audiobooks, including the international bestsellerĀ The Brotherhood of the Holy ShroudĀ by Julia Navarro,Ā The Virtues of WarĀ by Steven Pressfield, andĀ The Demon's LexiconĀ by Sarah Rees Brennan.
Christian CoulsonĀ is an English actor who has appeared inĀ The Hours,Ā Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, andĀ Gayby. His narrating credits includeĀ Bristol HouseĀ by Beverly Swerling,Ā Moth and SparkĀ by Anne Leonard, andĀ No Manās LandĀ by Simon Tolkien.
Beverly SwerlingĀ is the author of many novels, including the City of Dreams series, a four-volume historical saga set in old New York. She is also a consultant to other authors and is an amateur historian. She lives in Philadelphia but considers New York her home base.
Kristen SiehĀ is a founding member of New York based theater company The TEAM. She has performed at theaters all around the world and in theaterĀ festivals throughout Europe and Asia. Her television credits includeĀ Boardwalk EmpireĀ andĀ Law & Order.
James LangtonĀ trained as an actor at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. AnĀ AudioFileĀ Earphones Award winner, he has performed many voice-overs and narrated numerous audiobooks, including the international bestsellerĀ The Brotherhood of the Holy ShroudĀ by Julia Navarro,Ā The Virtues of WarĀ by Steven Pressfield, andĀ The Demon's LexiconĀ by Sarah Rees Brennan.
Christian CoulsonĀ is an English actor who has appeared inĀ The Hours,Ā Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, andĀ Gayby. His narrating credits includeĀ Bristol HouseĀ by Beverly Swerling,Ā Moth and SparkĀ by Anne Leonard, andĀ No Manās LandĀ by Simon Tolkien.
Beverly SwerlingĀ is the author of many novels, including the City of Dreams series, a four-volume historical saga set in old New York. She is also a consultant to other authors and is an amateur historian. She lives in Philadelphia but considers New York her home base.
Kristen SiehĀ is a founding member of New York based theater company The TEAM. She has performed at theaters all around the world and in theaterĀ festivals throughout Europe and Asia. Her television credits includeĀ Boardwalk EmpireĀ andĀ Law & Order.
James LangtonĀ trained as an actor at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. AnĀ AudioFileĀ Earphones Award winner, he has performed many voice-overs and narrated numerous audiobooks, including the international bestsellerĀ The Brotherhood of the Holy ShroudĀ by Julia Navarro,Ā The Virtues of WarĀ by Steven Pressfield, andĀ The Demon's LexiconĀ by Sarah Rees Brennan.
Christian CoulsonĀ is an English actor who has appeared inĀ The Hours,Ā Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, andĀ Gayby. His narrating credits includeĀ Bristol HouseĀ by Beverly Swerling,Ā Moth and SparkĀ by Anne Leonard, andĀ No Manās LandĀ by Simon Tolkien.
Beverly SwerlingĀ is the author of many novels, including the City of Dreams series, a four-volume historical saga set in old New York. She is also a consultant to other authors and is an amateur historian. She lives in Philadelphia but considers New York her home base.
Kristen SiehĀ is a founding member of New York based theater company The TEAM. She has performed at theaters all around the world and in theaterĀ festivals throughout Europe and Asia. Her television credits includeĀ Boardwalk EmpireĀ andĀ Law & Order.
James LangtonĀ trained as an actor at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. AnĀ AudioFileĀ Earphones Award winner, he has performed many voice-overs and narrated numerous audiobooks, including the international bestsellerĀ The Brotherhood of the Holy ShroudĀ by Julia Navarro,Ā The Virtues of WarĀ by Steven Pressfield, andĀ The Demon's LexiconĀ by Sarah Rees Brennan.
Christian CoulsonĀ is an English actor who has appeared inĀ The Hours,Ā Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, andĀ Gayby. His narrating credits includeĀ Bristol HouseĀ by Beverly Swerling,Ā Moth and SparkĀ by Anne Leonard, andĀ No Manās LandĀ by Simon Tolkien.
Reviews
Praise for Bristol House“An intricately woven plot with voices from the past give Swerling’s latest historical thriller an otherworldly aura.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Swerling adds a paranormal dimension to her latest novel, interweaving narratives set in contemporary and Tudor London. . . . Elements of romance, religious mythology, cultism, and the supernatural abound as this genre-blending thriller stretches back and forth through time to a suitably dramatic denouement.”
—Booklist
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