The nineteenth century always has a complementary aftertaste of melancholy and mystery. At a time when people still lived in the chiaroscuro of modernity, between beliefs, legends, trickery and the advancement of science at the dawn of technology, everything related ends up acquiring a strange aroma of impossible memories, to the ancestral and the enigmatic.
So when an author like Kate morton, master of mystery and suspense plots, she invites us again to a scene from deep England in the mid-nineteenth century, we know that we will enjoy an exciting story with enigmatic echoes of a time when everything was yet to be discovered. A few days when faith, science and myths shared the same imaginary.
If we can also make a trip to 1862 from today, the mystery becomes more palpable and the plot acquires legendary levels.
Thanks to Elodie Winslow, we began to compose a suspenseful plot about the events of 1862 in an old Berkshire countryside. A woman like her, a methodical archivist who ends up discovering an old painter's portfolio, with her pertinent instinct, will manage to investigate the details of a strange crime about which the late Birdie Bell, daughter of the watchmaker who poses in an old photograph of the folder, you can put some light.
Told on both scenarios, and thus offering an omniscient perspective to the reader, this story leads us from one side of the mirror to the other. From the confinement of some artists in search of inspiration in a gloomy house back in 1862, to the clues of what happened in that seclusion, arrived at the present and soon understood as an enigma to be deciphered with unfathomable consequences ...
The story, moving agilely between past and present, is composing a most complete plot around crime, mystery, artistic creation, inconceivable secrets ...
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