Ariana franklin city of shadows

Set in a depressed Framed against the dark shadow of Hitler’s inexorable rise, CITY OF SHADOWS is a thinking person’s thriller, its suspense and mystery aspects offering a perfect foil to the bigger questions of man’s inhumanity against man, and the things we all do to survive.

A young woman claiming

We watch as the shadow of Nazism creeps in and turns a a lovely, cosmopolitan city which had welcomed Russian refugees from the Bolsheviks with open arms and had a vibrant Jewish community, into a fearful place where you cannot trust anyone, friend, family or neighbor.

This book is fabulous. Franklin’s historical thriller flows from the crossover point between two populations in flux: the Germans of the Weimar Republic and a surge of Russian émigrés—rich whites, poor servants, scarred Jews—fleeing the Bolsheviks.

Franklin begins with the well known Ariana Franklin has written an intriguing, fast-paced thriller based on the life of Anna Anderson, the woman who claimed to be Anastasia, daughter of Tsar Nicholas II and the only survivor of the massacre of the Russian royal family in

Berlin, 1922: A city of Two years later an enterprising conman businessman hears about how another inmate is trying to convince everyone she can that the woman is the Grand Duchess Tatiana, somehow miraculously saved from the horror of the House of Special Purpose in Ekaterinburg.

Berlin, 1922: A city With memorable characters, atmospheric detail, and a suspenseful plot, City of Shadows beckons readers into an unforgettable experience of resilience, deception, and tragic fate. Readers will not only be entertained but left contemplating the threads of history that shaped humanity.

Ariana Franklin has written an "City of Shadows" is not part of Ariana Franklin's "Mistress of the Art of Death" series. This is a book about Berlin in the s. It is a mystery but it is also a portrait of a place and time; Berlin itself becomes as much a character as Esther Solomonova and the rest of the Berliners in the book.

As a killer stalks Ariana Franklin's City of Shadows is a gripping story, based on fact. The writing is taut, the storyline is fascinating and the tension is perfect (building slowing but surely to a surprising end). I felt as if I had been transported to the Berlin of the s and s.