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REVIEW: City of Shadows by Ariana Franklin

Dear Ms Franklin,

City of Shadows: A Novel of SuspenseI’ve adored your books written as Diana Norman and rejoiced when Rosario broke the news that you also write under this name. When I knew you had this and another book already released, I was elated. As I read this book, I was euphoric. I wanted to race through it to enjoy it quickly but I also wanted to take my time to savor it. In the end, I compromised and spaced it out a little by doing internet searches on events and people mentioned in it.

City of Shadows is subtitled a A Novel of Suspense and it kept me glued to it for the entire length. In the despair of 1920 Berlin, a woman is thrown into then fished out of the Landwehr Canal. After treatment at a local hospital, she’s sent to the Dalldorf asylum. 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 …