![]() ![]() Harper’s recreation of this ancient world continues to thrill. But selling one’s body is a transaction in which the man holds all the cards, as Amara seeks revenge on her former owner and, even more dangerously, falls in love. Its gripping sequel leaves the downmarket milieu of the fleshpots to depict its protagonist Amara’s new and luxurious life as a courtesan. The House With the Golden DoorĮlodie Harper’s The Wolf Denwas one of last year’s most vivid and transporting books, telling the story of sex workers in a Pompeii brothel in fascinating detail. ![]() Jonusas takes this grisly saga and turns it into a carefully researched and horribly compelling examination of unimaginable evil intruding upon everyday life, laying waste to all around it in the process. The blame was attached to a family who had lived there, the Benders, and the ensuing manhunt became a national sensation in a post-civil war America scarred by conflict. ![]() In Kansas in 1873, a remote cabin was found with the bloody remains of dismembered bodies buried around it. ![]()
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