Martine Desjardins

• Mar-2001
• / Literary
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In 1895, the arctic explorer Captain Ian Ryder has let his house in Blackpool on the Nova Scotia coast to the recently married Clara Weiss, who is about to become the compass of a social circle far too intimate for its own good. Lost in a maze of obs...

• Mar-2005
• / Literary
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In 1914, Simon Dulac enrolls in a Canadian contingent of military police, a perfect cover for his real ambition -- to comb the battlefields of Europe unhindered in his search for the legendary Templar treasure said to have been buried in Flanders in ...

• Sep-2007
• / General Fiction
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Since the death of her parents in 1791, Lily McEvoy has lived as a recluse in her isolated Armagh County manor with her two maidservants and Titus, the farmhand who has become her whipping boy. But tonight, the heiress is expecting company. Her guest...

• May-2012
• / Literary
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Martine Desjardins delivers to readers of Maleficium the unexpurgated revelations of Vicar Jerome Savoie, a heretic priest in nineteenth-century Montreal. Braving threats from the Catholic Church, Savoie violates the sanctity of the confessional in a...

• Apr-2018
• / Literary
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Set between 1913 and 1963 in one of Montreal’s well-known, upper-middle-class suburban neighbourhoods, Martine Desjardins’s The Green Chamber is a fast-paced, highly atmospheric, riveting novel that chronicles the decline of a wealthy French-Cana...

• Oct-2022
• / Literary
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An incendiary new novel based on the myth of Medusa from noted author Martine DesjardinsShe’s been called Medusa for so long that she’s forgotten her real name. She walks with her head down, her face hidden behind her hair to spare others...