Jonathan Carriel

A Thomas Dordrecht Mystery

Die Fasting (Nov-2006)
Great Mischief: Thomas Dordrecht in 1759 (Jan-2009)
If Two Are Dead (Apr-2012)

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  Die Fasting
  

  • Nov-2006
  • / Historical Mystery
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  A Thomas Dordrecht Mystery
  

  The year is 1758, and though the locale is workaday New York, the landscape is wildly exotic. Our fresh-faced hero is Thomas Dordrecht, raised on a remote farm-now in the heart of modern Brooklyn-speaking both Dutch and English. Though he thinks hims...

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  Great Mischief: Thomas Dordrecht in 1759
  

  • Jan-2009
  • / Historical Mystery
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  A Thomas Dordrecht Mystery
  

  In the late colonial period, one-third of Kings County-Brooklyn-were black slaves, and their Dutch-descended masters were never free of fear of their revolt. But the slaves too had much to fear from insurrection, as overreaction to it invariably cost...

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  If Two Are Dead
  

  • Apr-2012
  • / Historical Mystery
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  A Thomas Dordrecht Mystery
  

  Misadventure? A partner of the shipping? rm that employs young Thomas Dordrecht was known to be in good health and traveling from Pennsylvania to New York City. Yet his corpse is discovered at dawn in a Manhattan alleyw...

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  Exquisite Folly
  

  • May-2015
  • / Political Thriller
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  In the fall of 1765, New York City is roiling with fury at the impending enforcement of the Stamp Tax, which portends ruin to virtually all classes. There could not be a worse moment for the young, fetching-but none too bright-third wife of a wealthy...

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