Beverly Swerling’s BRISTOL HOUSE, a novel of intrigue set in London in the sixteenth century and today, in which a thirty-something American architectural historian rents a flat she comes to believe is haunted by a monk from Tudor times fleeing the rage of Thomas Cromwell, their duel stories told with flashbacks between 1536 and a present-day search for ancient Judaica lost during Cromwell’s day, further complicated by her meeting a modern Englishman who is the monk’s exact double, in a drama involving betrayal and atonement that spans the centuries, to Clare Ferraro for Viking, with Carole DeSanti editing, in a significant deal, in a pre-empt, for publication in early 2013, by Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (world English).
