The Wizard's Daughter
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A penniless yet strikingly beautiful orphan, Marianne Ransom's indomitable spirit has enabled her to survive a cruel life on the backstreets of Victorian London. But it is her gift of second sight that carries her into the world of money and privilege—a power brought on by a strange twist of fate. In the opulent home of a wealthy duchess, Marianne is being called upon to summon her late father—a noted mystic—from the grave. But Marianne's exceptional abilities have become a perilous trap. And suddenly knowing too much could prove fatal.
Barbara Michaels
Elizabeth Peters (writing as Barbara Michaels) was born and brought up in Illinois and earned her Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Chicago's famed Oriental Institute. Peters was named Grandmaster at the inaugural Anthony Awards in 1986, Grandmaster by the Mystery Writers of America at the Edgar® Awards in 1998, and given The Lifetime Achievement Award at Malice Domestic in 2003. She lives in an historic farmhouse in western Maryland.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Not sure if this book was trying for sarky or straight.Marianne Ransom is a complete cliché, orphan, innocent abroad who falls into a job that means that she's put in danger, with a wealthy roue looking for her "virtue" she ends up with a Duchess who believes that she has occult powers and that she can help her find her lost love, believed dead.Shenanigans ensue.Entertaining but sometimes it felt like too much, there was so much going on, secret passages, kidnapping, veiled widows, it was like Barbara Michaels threw a huge chunk of ideas at this book and hoped some of them would stick but forgot to really deal with the romance.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A genteel young woman left near-penniless after her spendthrift father dies is taken up by a dowager duchess who believes the girl is the daughter of a medium the duchess strongly admired, based on the the real D.D. Hume, but here named Holmes.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I generally like for fictional heroines to be more intelligent and spirited than the naive and insipid Miss Marianne Ransom. Fortunately, the mysterious and ghostly plot of this book was enough to keep me from tossing it across the room. While I wouldn't go so far as to pronounce her Too Stupid To Live, Miss Ransom put herself in quite a lot of daft situations, such as wandering on the stage of a London theater one day after arriving from the country and bursting into song, fantasizing that she would immediately become a Famous Actress. This does not happen of course, but what does happen, a duchess decides she is the long-lost child of an old friend (who was a spiritualist) and takes her in as a companion (and makes her perform table turning)is almost as far-fetched. So, is she really? Or is someone playing tricks? The answers to these questions are not what I expected; however, had I given this author a little more credit I probably would have figured it out. Upon reflection, there was certainly enough foreshadowing. I just expected the ending to be less of a revelation. My mistake.I'm not terribly tempted to check out more of this author's work, although I wasn't unimpressed. I would recommend this only to fans of chaste gothic romances.