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Praise for Mary Malloy's work: "A tour de force—fascinating, highly readable, and meticulously researched."—Nathaniel Philbrick "Meticulously researched and engagingly written."— Seattle Times "In the tradition of Byatt's Possession , Malloy's debut novel is a complex and masterfully woven tale that will keep readers up far into the night."—Caroline Preston, author of Jackie by Josie and Gatsby's Girl Historian Lizzie Manning didn't set out to become a sleuth, and she had no intention of becoming personally involved in a medieval mystery. Her expertise lay in eighteenth-century maritime voyages, and her assignment was to find a Tlingit Indian corpse robbed from its grave two hundred years ago during Captain Cook's Pacific voyage. First accident, then compulsion, pull her deeper into the past, through thirty generations of one British family. Lizzie's sources aren't fingerprints and firearms, but documents, artifacts, paintings, architecture, and even the landscape—though modern forensic science helps clarify what happened to a few ancient corpses. Lizzie's work takes on personal meaning as she is drawn into her own family's history of insanity and a search for a Crusader's dise

Who reads The Wandering Heart?

Author

Malloy, Mary

Publisher

Leapfrog Press : Made available through hoopla

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780981514857

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Mystery

Rating

3.77 / 5 (79 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14