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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue, returns with a tantalizing novel about the secrets, betrayal, and murder within one of New York City's most impressive Gilded Age mansions.Eight months since losing her mother in the Spanish flu outbreak of 1919, twenty-one-year-old Lillian Carter's life has completely fallen apart. For the past six years, under the moniker Angelica, Lillian was one of the most sought-after artists' models in New York City, with statues based on her figure gracing landmarks from the Plaza Hotel to the Brooklyn Bridge. But with her mother gone, a grieving Lillian is rudderless and desperate—the work has dried up and a looming scandal has left her entirely without a safe haven. So when she stumbles upon an employment opportunity at the Frick mansion—a building that, ironically, bears her own visage—Lillian jumps at the chance. But the longer she works as a private secretary to the imperious and demanding Helen Frick, the daughter and heiress of industrialist and art patron Henry Clay Frick, the more deeply her life gets intertwined with that of the family—pulling her into a tangled web of romantic trysts, stolen jewels, and family drama that runs so deep, the stakes just may be life or death.Nearly fifty years later, mod English model Veronica Weber has her own chance to make her career—and with it, earn the money she needs to support her family back home—within the walls of the former Frick residence, now converted into one of New York City's most impressive museums. But when she—along with a charming intern/budding art curator named Joshua—is dismissed from the Vogue shoot taking place at the Frick Collection, she chances upon a series of hidden messages in the museum: messages that will lead her and Joshua on a hunt that could not only solve Veronica's financial woes, but could finally reveal the truth behind a decades-old murder in the infamous Frick family.

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Author : Fiona Davis
★★★★☆ 4.3 from 5 stars (7796 Reviews)
Langue : English
ISBN-10 : 0593184033
File size: 12 MB

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This is the second book by Fiona Davis that I have read. After reading The Lions of Fifth Avenue, I was intrigued by the author's paradigm (making a famous building the center of her story as well as the locale). The Magnolia Palace is a story that takes place in the Frick Mansion in NY City with the action shifting between 1919 and 1969. I was especially interested in this building as I lived around the corner from the Frick's mansion (Clayton) in Pittsburgh, PA and enjoyed that particular museum. This book involves a mystery, likable and sometimes eccentric characters interwoven with the descrption of works of art. I thoroughly enjoyed it and was sorry to finish the book.It was a fascinating story that I highly recommend. The Magnolia Palace: A Novel Online PDF eBook epub online This was a quick read that was enjoyable. I found it interesting that the main character was inspired by a real person. I knew the family who owned the Magnolia Palace were real –The Frick family. Mr. Henry Clay Frick was an industrialist as well as an art patron and eventually, he left his home to the city to make into a museum. Audrey Munson was the woman who inspired the heroine, Lillian, in this story. Audrey was used by many sculptors of that era as a model for many of the statues around the city of New York. Many call her the first super model.The novel begins with Lillian being in the wrong place at the wrong time and she is questioned in the murder of her landlord’s wife. She flees and ends up in a job interview to be the assistant to Mr. Frick’s daughter.The action swings back and forth from the gilded age to the 1960s where we meet a model named Veronica who has come over from England to be part of a photo shoot at the Frick mansion which is now a museum. She meets a young man who is interning at the museum. They accidently get locked into the museum overnight in a snowstorm and blackout.Back in the gilded age, Lillian works for the daughter of the industrialist and tries to help her in her love life as the woman’s father wants her to marry. There’s a lot of interesting psychological undertones in Frick’s son and daughter’s interactions with him as well as each other.Lillian finds herself falling for the young man who has been chosen to be her employer’s fiancé and he falls for her as well. The daughter goes out of town with her family and sets a kind of treasure hunt around the house for her intended husband in order to amuse him while she’s gone. Lillian helps him in the quest and they draw closer together.In the 1960s, Veronica finds the clues for the treasure hunt in the house/museum and she, along with the intern start to follow them while they are stranded in the house.The rest of the story continues to move back and forth between the time periods and the two heroines. A murder occurs and the excitement builds in each era. I won’t say much more as I don’t want to give away any spoilers, but it’s a unique and interesting story. I thoroughly enjoyed it and recommend it if you like art, the gilded age, the 1960s, mysteries and a fictionalized look at the past in an exciting way.Issues of racism and prejudice against women with ambition are two of the themes of this story as well as family love and conflict. Overall, I think it’s a good story. PDF The Magnolia Palace: A Novel free ebook Fun read. Great detail of the New York rich in the early 1900s and their extravagant way of life wrapped in a mystery! ePUB The Magnolia Palace: A Novel leggi pdf ebook This is a pleasant, diverting story that takes place in the Frick mansion in Manhattan. Two storylines, one in 1919 and the other in 1966, follow two women whose lives are changed when they enter the historic mansion. As the story unfolds, both characters are involved in a murder mystery, romance, and a lost piece of jewelry.In the first story, Lilly is an artist's model with a face recognized throughout New York. After all, she has sat for many famous sculptors, and her face adorns many statues in the city. When she finds herself in the wrong place and time, Lilly is sought by police for a murder she didn't commit. She is considering her options and whether to flee when fate intervenes. She is mistaken for a job applicant for the personal assistant position of Helen Frick, Henry Frick's difficult daughter. This means she would be out of the public eye but still within the city in one of the most fabulous houses in New York. She seizes the opportunity to hide for a few months until she feels the police are no longer looking for her. What she didn't count on was how temperamental Helen could be.Soon her time is absorbed in learning about her young boss's overwhelming duties and eccentricities. She quickly realizes that Helen will do anything to please her father, who doesn't pay much attention to his daughter. Her value to him is to produce a valuable son-in-law. This couldn't be further from Helen's goals. Instead, Helen starts cataloging the massive, valuable collection of Frick artwork. Lilly gets tangled up in a plot to get Helen married but becomes involved with Helen's suitor. Lilly realizes the terrible predicament she is in and how she is risking the wrath of a powerful family by taking Helen's betrothed.Fifty years later, Veronica, a British fashion model, takes a job that sends her to New York to participate in a magazine shoot taking place in the Frick mansion. She gets accidentally locked in the mansion when a blizzard hits the city. Veronica tries to summon help, but it is futile. She wanders the rooms and stumbles on some clues to a treasure hunt that must have taken place in 1919. Veronica follows the clues which direct her to specific pieces of artwork. In her search, she is startled when she runs into another person, an archivist who has also been locked in. Together they follow clues that solve a long-ago mystery, one that began when Lilly worked as Helen Frick's assistant.I was drawn into this story by the title subject, the Frick mansion. The author, Fiona Davis, has woven her fictional characters into an authentic backdrop of the Frick mansion and family. This is a novel that will entertain historical fiction readers, especially those who like to learn about the fabulous old houses of New York. The mystery and romance elements will appeal to readers of these genres, too. (PDF) The Magnolia Palace: A Novel The Frick Mansion and all its treasures was the making of this story of three families over multiple decades. Lillian, Veronica, the Fricks all have secrets and all have pain and loss.