| International Standard Book Number |
9781250383594
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| International Standard Book Number |
1250383595
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
813/.6
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| Personal Name |
Brown, Jennifer N. (Jennifer Nancy), author.
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| Title Statement |
The lost book of Elizabeth Barton / Jennifer N. Brown.
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| Edition Statement |
1st ed.
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| Imprint |
©2026.
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| Imprint |
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
308 pages ; 25 cm.
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| General Note |
Includes a timeline of events.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"A dual-timeline murder mystery set in an English country manor, when an ambitious professor discovers the long-lost manuscript of a Reformation-era prophetess. Historian Alison Sage has made a groundbreaking archival discovery--she found a manuscript containing the prophecies of a 16th century nun, Elizabeth Barton. Barton's prophecy condemning Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn led to her execution and the destruction of all copies of her prophecies--or so the world believed. With Alison's discovery, she is catapulted to academic superstardom and scores an invitation to the exclusive Codex Consortium, a week of research among a select handful of fellow historians at a crumbling manor in England, located next to the ruins of the priory where Elizabeth herself once lived. What begins as a promising conference turns into a nightmare as the eerie house becomes the site of a murder. Suddenly, everyone is a suspect, and it seems that answers lie at the root of a local legend about centuries-old hidden treasure. Alison's research makes her best-suited to solve the mystery--but when old feelings resurface for a former colleague, and the stakes of the search skyrocket, everyone's motives become murky. Alison's cutthroat world of academia is almost as dangerous as Elizabeth Barton's sixteenth-century England, where heretics are beheaded, visions can kill, and knowing who to trust is a deadly art"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Barton, Elizabeth, 1506-1534 Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Murder Investigation Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Prophecies Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Historians Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Detective and mystery stories, American.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Nuns Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Conferences Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Great Britain History Henry VIII, 1509-1547 Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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