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    The Secret of the Ninth Stone

    By Kylie Fitzpatrick

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    Amen Corner, London, 1864.

    Orphan Sarah O'Reilly disguises herself as a boy so she can work in the offices of London's daily newspaper. She is soon befriended by Lily Korechnya, a wealthy widow and journalist. When Lily is enlisted to catalogue a wealthy socialite's magnificent jewel collection, she is intrigued by a fiery red diamond said to exert an unsettling influence over anyone who touches it.

    Then two gruesome murders take place and Lily and Sarah set about uncovering the secrets of the ninth stone...

    First published as The Ninth Stone, The Secret of the Ninth Stone has been revised and updated by the author.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHead of Zeus
    Release dateJan 1, 2018
    ISBN9781788542272
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    The Secret of the Ninth Stone
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    Kylie Fitzpatrick

    Kylie Fitzpatrick was born in Denmark and grew up in England, America and Australia. She has worked as a researcher and script editor and now teaches creative writing at Bath Spa University. She is the author of The Silver Thread, Tapestry and The Secret of the Ninth Stone, and has been published in eleven languages.

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    • 3/5
      I thought the first half of this book was much better than the second half which seemed to lose its way, particularly the part of the story set in India.

      While I liked this I don't think I'll be in a hurry to read more books by this author.
    • 2/5
      The attraction of Victorian historical novels is how close that world is to our own in many, if not most, ways and yet how startlingly different it can be in areas that seem so mundane and well, normal, to us today. It is this blending of the same and the different in surprising ways that gets our minds to make that little jump of excitement when we read them.Kyle Fitzpatrick’s The Ninth Stone never really gets to grips with the Victorian world in a way that brings it all to life. Written from a feminine viewpoint the male characters are never more than cyphers and the action never sparks into life.There are far too many characters that could be interesting who never make it past the page they are introduced and far too much promise of action and event that never happens.Imagine Philip Pullman writing his Sally Lockhart stories with his mojo turned right down to a 1.
    • 4/5
      Unusual Victorian IntrigueOrphaned on the streets of London at a young age, Sarah O’Reilly has the weight of the world on her shoulders. She struggles to keep her and her little sister Ellen out of the workhouses, and to avoid prostitution, or street begging to keep a roof over their heads and food in their bellies. Disguising herself as a boy, Sarah gets a job as a messenger at one of the local newspapers. Seeing her intelligence and potential, the paper’s editor finds a soft spot with Sarah and keeps her working to encourage her self improvement. Sarah’s ideal role model is a widowed writer named Lily Korechnya who pens articles about exemplary women for the newspaper under a man’s name. Endearing her heart to Sarah, Lily takes her under her wing and befriends the two sisters giving them a new home and teaching Sarah to become the writer she always dreamed of. Friend to Lady Cynthia Herbert, a collector of exquisite gems and jewels, Lily tells Sarah of a mysterious and sought after set of nine colored diamonds that Lady Herbert brought back from India to have set in an amulet for none other than the Maharajah. Set in a specific design that in Hindu Mythology would bring extreme power and destruction, no jeweler in India would do the job. Lord and Lady Herbert had agreed to take the jewels back to London for the maharajah to be created properly. Giving the glittering gems to a recommended artisan with nothing but a drawing he must memorize on sight and immediately hand over, the jeweler agrees to take on the job. While Lily is there at the jewelers with Lady Herbert, she also commissions a necklace piece for herself, a mourning locket that with hold a lock of her late husband’s hair close to her heart.Days later the diamonds are stolen and three people are murdered. Local London police are unable to make heads or tails; a curious case unfolds and a relentless manhunt is unleashed. Lily, Sarah, and Ellen find their lives entwined with much mystery, mischief and mayhem that will lead them from the streets of London across the sea to the exotic realm of 19th century India. Lily and Sarah both, at different times in their lives will encounter many baffling conundrums and come face to face with a host of wicked enemies that at first do not show their true colors but all have connection to the London crimes.The author’s ability to evoke marvelous period detail that takes the reader on a curious and enchanting journey from the depraved gutters of London’s underworld to the markets of India where the scents of spices and yards of diaphanous silks abound. From proper English tea parties to Indian temples that spin dancing girls into voluptuous temptations, this book is a unique blend of historical novel and international mystery. Steeped in the lore of diamonds with the added pleasure of Hindu mythology that gets sprinkled hither and yon throughout the book, we are immersed in gods and goddesses both wondrous and fearsome that add spicy ingredients to this exceptional novel. I really enjoyed this innovative and clever plot finely crafted.