false 75413433 731321 3419681 0393067734 9780393067736 73 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256152892m/3419681.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256152892s/3419681.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3419681.The_Glass_of_Time_A_Novel 3.75 242 Building on his "superb" (Washington Post) debut, The Meaning of Night, Michael Cox returns to a murderous nineteenth-century England.

ike its "beguiling" and "intelligent" (New York Times Book Review) predecessor, The Glass of Time is a page-turning period mystery about identity, the nature of secrets, and what happens when past obsessions impose themselves on an unwilling present. In the autumn of 1876, nineteen-year-old orphan Esperanza Gorst arrives at the great country house of Evenwood to become a lady's maid to the twenty-sixth Baroness Tansor. But Esperanza is no ordinary servant. She has been sent by her guardian, the mysterious Madame de l'Orme, to uncover the secrets that her new mistress has sought to conceal, and to set right a past injustice in which Esperanza's own life is bound up. At Evenwood she meets Lady Tansor's two dashing sons, Perseus and Randolph, and finds herself enmeshed in a complicated web of seduction, intrigue, deceit, betrayal, and murder. Few writers are as gifted at evoking the sensibility of the nineteenth century as Michael Cox, who has made the world of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins his own.]]> 39412 3.63 1549 441 2008 The suspense is a killer, but the story is an excellent one! Great book for a buddy read. 0 2009-10-28T08:16:36-07:00 1509267 305 2009-10-28T08:16:36-07:00 This is sure to be a "can't put it down to save my life" book! Can't wait to keep going! 0 2009-10-22T15:12:18-07:00 1483404 46 2009-10-22T15:12:18-07:00 5 0 false Tue Nov 10 08:54:32 -0800 2009 Thu Oct 22 15:11:52 -0700 2009 Tue Nov 10 08:54:32 -0800 2009