Though there are a handful of action scenes, the bulk of this. He only becomes suspicious when Jordan reveals the Huntress’s links to the Nazis and when she installs dubious Mr. The Huntress is an introspective novel, diving into just what war does to people and drives people to do, before, during, and after.

Given that the Huntress is beautiful and refined, Daniel admires her “as though he were admiring a beautiful porcelain vase” (356) and agrees to bring her into his family. Daniel’s acceptance that such refugees are necessarily secretive means that he does not find anything especially suspicious about the Huntress, who comes to him with a false name, a child that does not resemble her, and her jewelry to sell. In the early postwar years, the shop becomes a place where Daniel meets “refugees selling their last antique brooch or bit of silver - men with names they’ve obviously changed, women holding children who don’t look anything like them, people making excuses for their scars or accents” (186). The Huntress by Kate Quinn From The Jacket: From the author of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling novel, THE ALICE NETWORK, comes another fascinating historical novel about a battle-haunted English journalist and a Russian female bomber pilot who join forces to track the Huntress, a Nazi war criminal gone to ground in America. (The Huntress herself is based on two real women, one a female camp guard. Porter Death Is An Illusion: A Luci De Foix Mystery by L. Novel: A few questions with Author Don Bentley Author Interview With Mystery Writer Brian L.

The antiques store is the place where Daniel trades his all-American Red Sox cap and sportive talk for a three-piece suit and expert knowledge on what are likely European antiques. Quinn discovers and portrays women whose actions mirror those of the men more frequently given space in these books. Book Release: Shadow Target by David Ricciardi Interview With The Author Of The Rose Code Kate Quinn Target Acquired: A Jack Ryan Jr.