Magnolia Palace, The: A Novel

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I think this might be my favourite Fiona Davis novel although I still need to read The Lions of Fifth Avenue.

That said, The Magnolia Palace has some fascinating elements but while the final portion of the book is a page turner, the rest of the book has a real pacing problem. Since Kitty's death, she'd felt a consistent, gnawing hunger in her gut that would only be satiated with butterscotch candies and lemon meringue pie.During the scavenger hunt, the clues send us to different paintings and art objects within the museum. While there she happens upon some papers describing a scavenger hunt that Helen had made for her soon to be fiancé. She stumbles upon some hidden messages which puts her on track to potentially solving a decades old mystery involving the Fricks. The story centers around a “supermodel” like character in the early 1900’s and another “aspiring model” character in 1966. Fiona Davis has written another fascinating dual time masterpiece, thanks to NetGalley and Penguin Group Publishing for my copy in exchange for an honest review and five big stars from me.

If you happen to enjoy family drama, with a mystery and some art history tossed in, this one might satisfy. I appreciated Davis’s spotlight on the two women, on how difficult it is for women to survive in New York.This works out well for her since she needs to keep a low profile due to being a murder suspect, which is another misunderstanding.

When she finds herself at the Frick household interviewing for the position of a personal secretary to Helen Frick, she can't believe her luck. Bestselling author Fiona Davis builds upon the secrets of the Frick Collection in a delightful blend of emotion and adventure. These works of art, however, are placed at landmarks around the city, such as: the Plaza Hotel, the Brooklyn Bridge, and the Three Graces at the Hotel Astor; even at the entrance of the Frick Mansion.If you enjoy historical fiction exploring real people and places from the past, Austenprose highly recommends them. Fiona Davis ‘s inspiration for this book came from Martha Frick Symington Sanger’s great granddaughter of Henry Clay Frick:”Bittersweet Heiress and Henry Clay Frick: An Intimate Portrait “. It’s historical fiction at its best, marked by the complexity of female friendship, the glamour of the art world, and having the moxie to reinvent yourself.

She proudly declines, but it haunts her after the landlord murders his wife and she is wanted for questioning. In 1966, Veronica Weber’s in New York, doing a fashion shoot for Vogue and at the Frick museum, she feels very out of her depth and she’s only done smaller modelling jobs in the past. The Magnolia Palace was a family saga that focused on family fortune, art masterpieces, loss, long kept secrets and unique family dynamics.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.