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  <title><![CDATA[City of Shadows: A Novel of Suspense]]></title>
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  <default-description>&lt;p&gt; A cultured city scarred by war. . . . An eastern &#233;migr&#233; with scars and secrets of her own. . . . A young woman claiming to be a Russian grand duchess. . . . A brazen killer, as vicious as he is clever. . . . A detective driven by decency and the desire for justice. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; . . . A nightmare political movement steadily gaining power. . . . &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; This is 1922 Berlin. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; One of the troubled city's growing number of refugees, Esther Solomonova survives by working as secretary to the charming, unscrupulous cabaret owner &quot;Prince&quot; Nick, and she's being drawn against her will into his scheme to pass a young asylum patient off as Anastasia, the last surviving heir to the murdered czar of all Russia. But their found &quot;princess,&quot; Anna Anderson, fears that she's being hunted&amp;#151;and this may turn out to be more than paranoia when innocent people all around her begin to die. &lt;/p&gt;</default-description>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ariana Franklin]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This novel held my attention with three very interesting subplots: the life and travails of a Russian Jewish refugee who escaped the pogroms of the early 1900s, a misanthropic woman who claimed to be the long lost Anastasia Nikolaevna, and the struggles of an honest German detective against the incr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/934584">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu May 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu May 28 08:44:48 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ariana Franklin has once again developed a strong female character, Esther, and placed her in a backdrop of a deteriorating Germany during the early part of the 20th Century. Incorporating German history, the bustle of the city of Berlin, the Anatasia mystery, and a Nazi serial killer into one conci...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57611407">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Oct 31 12:29:04 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Set in post World War 1 Berlin as Germany is in the slow process of recovering and Hitler's gang is coming into power, this tale of skullduggery and deceit is another tale of Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov or the person who claims to be he and those who are scheming to pass her off as the heir of t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76309433">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Feb 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[1922 Berlin and Germany is falling apart. Hitler is beginning his rise to the top. A woman named Esther Solonomova works for Prince Nick, a fake Russian count who runs a series of night clubs. Nick thinks he's found a meal ticket when he finds a woman in an insane asylum who claims to be the Grand D...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76145760">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="76568739">
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  <date_updated>Tue Nov 03 05:41:58 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Ariana Franklin!  I've been reading her historical thrillers--Mistress of the Art of Death--(and I see there's a new one out...)  but this book is set in Germany between the two World Wars.  It is mysterious, romantic, thought-provoking and full of amazing female characters, both good and 'ba...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76568739">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="57707663">
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  <date_added>Thu May 28 22:40:55 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Strong characterization in this one. A page turner set in the period between the wars in Germany when first demoralization and poverty and then the evils of the Nazi regime swept the country. The possible reappearance of one of the czar's daughters, murders, and mysterious persons weave through the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57707663">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="70174093">
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good, not great. I liked the second half better than the first, which dragged a bit. I had some trouble with Franklin's choice of voices. This is always difficult when attempting to indicate class/education with language when the language spoken is not the one being read. Slangy English does not rea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70174093">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="58499275">
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 04 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jun 04 21:16:40 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jun 04 21:17:05 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book has it all. A strong atmospheric setting, entwined with wonderful characters, and a plot that challenges the good guys to find a merciless killer before he finds them. <br/><br/>Set in pre World War II Berlin, this novel will give you a peek at what fueled the political movement that gre...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58499275">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="36732149">
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  <read_at>Tue Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a wonderful gripping read. Set in the hyperinflationary, chaotic Berlin of the 1920s, and filled with characters that would be at home in any Eric Ambler, Franklin paints a picture of Berlin in the worst throes of economic collapse. Nick is a night club owner, favorite of those in power, tho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36732149">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="31735704">
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    <body><![CDATA[Picture 1920’s Berlin.  Hitler is just a whisper on the wind at this point but in Russia and in Germany there is a strong threat of anti-Semitism.   The Bolsheviks have annihilated the royal family.  Supposedly, no one survived.  In Berlin, Esther, a Jewess, has come to live escaping the terrorism...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31735704">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="24478372">
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 22 07:28:10 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[City of Shadows opens in 1920s Berlin, in the world of daring nightclubs and Russian emigres.  After a gap of several years, it returns to 1930s Berlin, just as Hitler is coming to power. The protagonists are Schmidt, a Berlin policeman, and Esther, a Jewish refugee from Russia.  They are tied toget...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24478372">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="22114939">
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  <read_at>Mon May 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Most people have probably heard of Franziska Schanskowska and don't even know it.  She is the woman who claimed to be Anastasia, daughter of Russia's last czar.  Ariana Franklin has crafted a thriller around this woman's earlier years that involves a psychopath, Nazis, a dogged police inspector (Sig...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22114939">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8626760">
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Nov 03 18:20:27 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Aug 19 18:52:23 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Although this was Ariana Franklin's first book it is the last of hers that I have read to date.  Unlike the others, this is a stand alone tale of Berlin between the two world wars as it changes from a city licking its wounds in 1922 to a city in the 30's where the brownshirts are taking over and the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8626760">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="3907176">
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ok, I've read several mystery/suspense fictions before, and I  must say that this is one of the rare gems that I was not able to guess the ending until it was revealed to me in the last two pages!  Bravo!  <br/><br/>     The story is actually the intermingling of several lives around the advancing...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3907176">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="54292391">
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  <read_at>Tue Apr 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have a soft spot for both Berlin in the late 20s and early 30s (what a profoundly screwed up place and time!), and the murder of the Romanov Family (that would be the Czar of Russia and his family). This novel has both, with a murder mystery to boot! And the writing was complicated enough that it ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54292391">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="74685935">
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my most recent favorites. Takes place in Berlin between World Wars I and II, and filled with shady characters who survive by living in between, too. Has one of the best quotes of the year, for me: &quot;The scar, and her indifference to it, did something extraordinary for her, just as damage ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74685935">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[So good.  Suspense, love, murder, Nazi's, Anastasia...could we ask for more in one book?  Not only is this book super fun to read with a major and totally unexpected twist at the end, but you get an in depth portrait of Germany between the wars and the socioeconomic situation that enabled Hitler's r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43108388">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This beautifully written thriller is one of the most satisfying books I've read in some time. Set in a vividly depicted Berlin between the wars, it revolves around Esther Solomonova, a scarred Russian Jewish refugee with a tragic past; Siegfried Schmidt, a kind and honest man who is also a clever an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13762175">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love this book.  It was a little slow to start, but once I got into it I really hated having to put it down.  Ariana Franklin/Diana Norman is definitley one of my favorite authors.  I love how strong her female characters are and how she mixes historical fiction with mystery/suspense.  I learned a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71913113">more...</a>]]></body>
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