A few years back, my book club read India Edghill’s first novel, Queenmaker. We loved it, but we had questions about it. I contacted India via e-mail and we struck up a nice correspondance. So, when her second novel, Wisdom’s Daughter came out, we had to read that one, too.
In fact, we had India call in to our book club meeting during our discussion of Wisdom’s Daughter, although we mostly wound up talking about other books, especially the Biblical Historical genre, which both Queenmaker and Wisdom’s Daughter fall into.
As we were talking, though, I mentioned that I had three novels here that her sister, Rosemary, had written. Gathered into one Omnibus, they are commonly referred to as The Bast Novels, after the main character.
Finally, over a year later, I’m reading them. And let me tell you, these books may be about ten years old, but they have stood up to the passage of time. The world that Rosemary creates is real, it’s colorful, it’s vibrant — and it’s alive. Separately, the three are Speak Daggers to Her, Book of Moons, and The Bowl of Night. Together, they are Bell, Book, and Murder.
(Mystery Lovers’ Bookshop doesn’t have a link to The Bowl of Night, but I bet if you call them, they can find it for you.)
Go get ‘em. Heck, go get all five of them. You won’t be disappointed.
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