by Kylie Fitzpatrick · Actes Sud · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782742790692
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«La Neuvième Pierre» is the historical mystery novel by Kylie Fitzpatrick, published by Actes Sud in paperback (368 pages, in French).
London, 1864. Sarah O'Reilly disguises herself as a boy and works at a newspaper, where she meets Lily Korechnya. Lily must catalogue nine stones for Lady Cynthia Herbert, intended to form a navaratna; a blood-red diamond seems to exert influence. After two murders, Holy Joe is accused, and Sarah travels to India on the trail of the cult of Kâlî.
Original title: The Ninth Stone. Translated from English by Céline Schwaller. Edition in the Actes noirs collection.
For readers of historical fiction and mystery, set in Victorian England and colonial India.
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