The Orphan Master Hardcover - 2012
by Zimmerman, Jean
- Used
- Hardcover
Description
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Details
- Title The Orphan Master
- Author Zimmerman, Jean
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Pages 418
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Viking, New York
- Date 2012
- Illustrated Yes
- Bookseller's Inventory # 034585
- ISBN 9780670023646 / 0670023647
- Weight 1.45 lbs (0.66 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6 x 1.8 in (23.11 x 15.24 x 4.57 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects New York (State), Mystery fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011038593
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
From a debut novelist, a gripping historical thriller and rousing love story set in seventeenth-century Manhattan
It’s 1663 in the tiny, hardscrabble Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, now present-day southern Manhattan. Orphan children are going missing, and among those looking into the mysterious state of affairs are a quick-witted twenty-two-year-old trader, Blandine von Couvering, herself an orphan, and a dashing British spy named Edward Drummond.
Suspects abound, including the governor’s wealthy nephew, a green-eyed aristocrat with decadent tastes; an Algonquin trapper who may be possessed by a demon that turns people into cannibals; and the colony’s own corrupt and conflicted orphanmaster. Both the search for the killer and Edward and Blandine’s newfound romance are endangered, however, when Blandine is accused of being a witch and Edward is sentenced to hang for espionage. Meanwhile, war looms as the English king plans to wrest control of the colony.
Jean Zimmerman brings New Amsterdam and its surrounding wilderness alive for modern-day readers with exacting period detail. Lively, fast paced, and full of colorful characters, The Orphanmaster is a dramatic page-turner that will appeal to fans of Hilary Mantel and Geraldine Brooks.
