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" Judith Merkle Riley's novels are small jewels, smooth and polished, glowing with a light all their own" NEW EDITIONS Available in the
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Amid the horrors of the Black Plague, a village girl receives a divine vision that sends her out into the world as midwife and faith healer, and straight into the chambers of the English Inquisition. Faith, humor, and a certain homely practicality keep Margaret afloat in a world that has lost its bearings, and bring her at last to true love “Rich with the ambiance and flavor of the Middle Ages . . . a fourteenth-century story told with a twentieth-century sensibility.” The New York Times Book Review “Fascinating and factual . . . if all chronicles of earthly life were recorded with such drama, flair, and wit, the world would be filled with history majors.” Los Angeles Times |
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When Margaret's newly wedded husband vanishes in France during the Hundred Years' War, she evades her rapacious in-laws and goes alone to find and ransom her beloved. |
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Margaret returns home to a family in chaos. Even God is a bit troubled about straightening out the mess, but Margaret is dauntless. |
 " At her best here, Riley has concocted a delightful blend of history, romance, and the supernatural...." Booklist " Another dazzling mix of history, romance, and the occult from Riley....." |
A millennium novel set among the magicians, astrologers, and prognosticators of the renaissance court of Catherine de Medici, Queen of France and patroness of Nostradamus. " Again mixing history and fantasy with elan, the author of The Oracle Glass and The Serpent Garden offers a tightly woven, suspenseful, and fiendishly funny novel....Lush period detail and sprightly dialogue laced with humor and courtly pomp....." Publisher's Weekly |
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The adventures of a woman miniature painter caught in the dynastic intrigues of Henry VIII and his arch-rival, Francis I. " A new and enchanting Riley period masque...Spooky, riotous, headlong action, ivory-clear satires of power players, a spot of comic grue, enticing period ambiance, and prose alluringly luminous: a top-notch re-creation" Kirkus Reviews |
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"It's like opening a bottle of magic elixir, out comes a swirl of scent and sound and sight, and in a flash, you are drinking deep of a brew of love and poison...." Diana Gabaldon |
A true-crime story with a touch of the occult, set in 17th century Paris " Chilly, witty, and completely engrossing. With a cheerful skewering (historically grounded) of the sheer, cretinous awfulness of the Sun King's satellites, plenty of skittery action, and a wisp of the supernatural. Great, good fun." Kirkus Reviews " ...a remarkable tour de force and a compelling read." Jean Auel |
