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"House-sitting while her own home is being remodeled, children's book illustrator and sometime amateur sleuth Calista Jacobs is hard at work on her next book, a retelling of the classic story The Emperor and the Nightingale. Serendipitously, her new Beacon Hill neighbor, Quintana "Queenie" Kingsley, cultivates bonsai, the perfect landscape for the fairy tale. Making sketches every day while Quintana works on her plants, Calista gets a peek at the narrow world of the Boston brahmins. And when show more Calista discovers the older woman's murdered body, she feels compelled to investigate." "Drawn into the rarefied atmosphere of a society where women have names like Muffy and Babs, Calista encounters a world of wealth and privilege delicately preserved through the generations. Like so many of the families, the Kingsley clan appears placid and comfortable on the surface, and yet numbers in its midst several alcoholics, one suicide, and assorted failed relationships. With the help of her teenage son Charley and Queenie's colorful, debonair brother-in-law Rudy, Calista begins to peel back the layers hiding family secrets so dark that someone would kill to preserve them."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved show lessTags
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Kathryn Lasky was born in Indianapolis, Indiana on June 24, 1944, and knew she wanted to be a writer from the time she was ten. She majored in English in college and after graduation wrote for various magazines and taught. Her first book, I Have Four Names for My Grandfather, was published while she was teaching. She has written more than seventy show more books for children and young adults on everything from historical fiction to picture books and nonfiction books including the Dear America books and the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series. Many of her books are illustrated with photographs by her husband, Christopher Knight. She has received many awards for her titles including Sugaring Time which was a Newberry Honor Book; The Night Journey which won the National Jewish Book Award for Children; Pageant which was an ALA Notable Children's book; and Beyond the Burning Time which was an ALA Best Book for Young Adults. She has also received the Washington Post's Children's Book Guild Award for her contribution to children's nonfiction. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Dark Swan
- Original publication date
- 1994
- People/Characters
- Calista Jacobs; Charley Jacobs
- Important places
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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