Hi there, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler and in todays Binge Reading episode Allison talks about the qualities needed for living through turbulent times, whether they are contemporary or historical, and the women who survived them. In The Queen’s Fortune, Allison’s latest book, she tells us the story of this fascinating historical figure. She might have ended up as Empress if he hadn’t met Josephine, but she went on to found a famous royal house which still exists today. Women like Désirée Clary, the first love of Napoleon’s life. Subscribe now! Spotify | MoreĪllison Pataki has made it her specialty to discover the relatively unknown women of history whose lives changed the course of empires, whose names have largely been forgotten. The book builds to a genuinely startling conclusion – a shocking twist ending that surprises even the book’s cop characters, giving the book all the elements of a perfect mystery, and making it a superlative first entry in a new series.Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 45:47 - 41.9MB) | Embedĭon't miss out on the latest episodes. The novel impressively lays out this complicated dilemma through the fantastic, authentic character of Myaisha, who wants to uncover Candace’s connections to fraud, while also mourning their supposed friendship, which seems to have been based on fabrications. However, events are about to take an even stranger and darker turn: Candace is killed in her office, and Myaisha is determined to figure out who did it.Ĭorbier deftly manages a large cast of characters in this well-paced novel about the stakes of learning the truth about our alleged friends. When a college friend, successful realtor Candace Knight, becomes financially involved in the group and announces that she’s published a novel completely out of the blue, Myaisha is pretty suspicious. Myaisha Douglas started seeking solace in writing after her husband’s death she’s a prominent member of the Greensboro Women of Color Writing Group, as well as a local physician. An amateur sleuth uses her knowledge of crime novels to solve her friend’s murder in Michelle Corbier’s Murder Is Revealing, an engrossing mystery about shady business deals and dishonest scams.

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