The Missing Italian Girl, Barbara Corrado Pope
The Missing Italian Girl, Barbara Corrado Pope
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The Missing Italian Girl

Author: Barbara Corrado Pope

Narrator: Meredith Mitchell

Unabridged: 10 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/13/2013

Synopsis

On a sultry night in June 1897, a young Russian by the name of Pyotr Ivanovich Balenov and two young women transport a dead man through the narrow streets of a working class neighborhood in northeastern Paris. They throw the body into the canal and the girls flee to the Latin Quarter to hide with one of the Russian's anarchist "comrades." They do not realize they, too, are being watched. Their subsequent disappearance and the violent acts that follow will set Clarie Martin, a teacher and mother of a toddler, and her husband, magistrate Bernard Martin, on a dangerous quest to rescue them from a vicious killer.

About Barbara Corrado Pope

Barbara Corrado Pope fell in love with the art, landscapes and people of Provence while teaching French, women’s and religious history to American students in Avignon. Among the many places she led lecture-tours were Aix-en-Provence, where she followed in Cézanne’s footsteps, from the hidden depths of the Bibémus Quarry to his sunny studio at Les Lauves on the outskirts of town.She has a PhD in the Social and Intellectual History of Europe from Columbia University and has taught history and women’s studies in places as diverse as Hungary, Tuscany, the University of New Mexico, and Harvard Divinity School. Her longest stint was at the University of Oregon, where she was the founding director of women’s studies.Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Barbara resides in Eugene, Oregon, where she is actively pursing a second career as a novelist. Her third, The Missing Italian Girl arrives in February 2013.

About Meredith Mitchell

Meredith Mitchell is an actress who has performed in such films as Mona Lisa Smile and The Reunion, on stage with Shakespeare & Company and the New Repertory Theatre, and on television on Good Morning America. She received her BA in psychology from Emory University and her MFA in acting from Brandeis University.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sasha on March 12, 2013

First I would like to say I received this book through the goodreads giveaway. This book took me a little bit to get into.... but once I did I kept wanting to read so I knew all that was happening. I do wish I had read the first two previous books before this one. I will have to put the other two on......more

Goodreads review by wade on March 06, 2013

I almost gave the book four stars instead of five because the author portrays anarchists and socialists as kindhearted saints which they all were not. Once I overcame this and focused on the writing - it is first rate. The story takes place in late nineteenth century Paris and is about - guess what......more

Goodreads review by Thurman on March 12, 2013

Fascinating story set in 1897 Paris, an unlikely friendship between a progressive school teacher (Charie) and a cleaner (charwoman) at her school, and the cleaner's daughters - who become friends with an anarchist. Nice details on the life of middle class contrasted with that of the cleaner's family......more

Goodreads review by Ken on March 20, 2013

Although this is a historical novel, it was a mystery from the very beginning. It was a novel which was suppose to be a Bernard Martin mystery, but I believe it was about Clarie Martin as the main character. It is about women's rights in 1897. All the issues are touched on.......more

Goodreads review by Kate on June 08, 2013

A very well-researched and suspenseful story set in Paris of the 1890s, this book features two brave heroines: Maura, a poor Italian 16-yr-old seamstress caught in the fringes of the anarchist movement of the time, and Clarie, a slightly unconventional teacher, mother and wife who works at a Lyceé f......more

Quotes

“Pope plots Clarie's search for the missing girl with precision and restraint. The true draw here is her portait of women—and their not-so-equal rights—at the turn of the last century. Wonderfully engaging. Even in the face of senseless limitations, Clarie proves it is possible to find joy, truth—and even oneself.” O, The Oprah Magazine (editor’s pick)

“An unlikely sleuth is drawn into another murder mystery in turn-of-the-century France…Pope's third mystery featuring Clarie (The Blood of Lorraine, 2010, etc.) expertly doles out pieces of its complex plot, a picaresque puzzle with satisfying period flavor.” Kirkus Reviews

“The musings of Clarie about the wrenching inequity between the pampered women she teaches and those she and Bernard search for in back alleys gives us a window into this glamorous yet perilous time. Engrossing.” Booklist

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