Books by Jean Burnett
A Brush with Death
If you always suspected that universities were a danger to society, this novel will confirm your worst fears. Never mind the intellectual possibilities, the lecture room and offices can be lethal, and someone will stop at nothing to achieve their end.
Who Needs Mr Darcy?
I once heard an agent say that there was no female equivalent of the picaresque novel –those tales of men in former times having adventures everywhere, swashing their buckles and wowing the ladies. There were obvious reasons for this. Women did not get about very much in past eras and their behaviour was circumscribed. […]
Scandal in the Sun
The sequel takes up where the first book ended. Lydia is en route to Brazil as a lady-in-waiting to an Austrian princess. After a very long sea voyage she joins the highly eccentric Portuguese court in Rio where she attracts the attention of the heir to the throne, Dom Pedro. After many adventures and a […]
Vagabond Shoes
You are never too old for a gap year and this book relates my year as “the world’s oldest backpacker” -my daughter’s description. I wanted to channel the Victorian lady explorers who were so intrepid and who wrote some very amusing accounts of their expeditions (often unintentionally). I jumped from Europe to India to the[…]
Books by Fran Kempton
Jean Burnett writing as Fran Kempton.
The Devil’s Tune
Fran Kempton
Naples 15—Carlo Gesualdo, prince and composer, murders his wife and her lover in the palace of San Severo. The murders cause a sensation throughout the courts of Europe. The deed is witnessed by the wife’s devoted maidservant, Laura Scala, who vows revenge on the prince. Laura’s own troubled past haunts her as she travels from […]
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