Beatriz Williams is one of the Queens of historical fiction. And she doesn’t disappoint in her new novel The Golden Hour. The story is set in Switzerland in 1900 and the Bahamas in 1941 and involves the Duke and Dutchess Of Windsor (the King that left his throne for his love).
Lulu Randolph Thorpe is a reporter for a New York woman’s magazine has gotten herself a plum job in the Bahamas. She is here to write about the royals. The problem is she doesn’t know them and getting close to them is near impossible. But she pulls it off and becomes friends with them. But not everything with them is as it seems. Lulu tells her story about her first husband and how she is trying to get her second husband out of Germany.
When a wealthy man is murdered on the island their seems to be a cover-up and it could involve the royals. The story goes back and forth between two time periods as we learn the story of Lulu and a woman named Elfriede von Kleist and soon their two worlds collide in a story with twists and turns right up to the end.
If you are a fan of this kind of writing this is the book for you. Great characters, a great story and a story that keeps the reader engaged for the whole book. Beatriz never writes a bad book!
You can pick up The Golden Hour in stores on Tuesday, July 9th from William Morrow.
