About this title: When Pippa, who is young, beautiful and naive, arrives at the romantic Grand Duchy of Bruxenstein, she is cast into the web of intrigue surrounding the murder of her beloved elder sister and her husband. She never imagined the painful secrets she would be forced to keep.
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: FAWCETT CREST
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780449200551ISBN:0449200558
Description: Good. {G-} Mass Market Paperback. Definite creases in spine. Reading crease along the hinge. Edgewear and slight chipping to covers. Page edges beginning to tan due to age. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Ivy Books
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780449213025ISBN:0449213021
Description: Very Good. 0449213021 Mass Market Paperback, previously read used book in very good condition, may have slight worn corners and some shelf wea..._ read more
Edition: Book Club Edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780385177863ISBN:0385177860
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Book has clean tanning pgs, binding intact but seperating from spine, book & dj show shelf, edge & corner wear with scuffing, stains on top edges, dj is tanned with tiny tears, spine is slightly pushed to the right, small... 400 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
"There was this beautiful house for hunters in the middle of the wood, which I used to see while driving in the car. My father would tell us stories about when and how it was built and what would hunters do on weekends, and I would daydream in a different way (killing animals was excluded :).
This house was far away from the road, and I've never seen it up close but my imagination was wild as a beast. I was around 12, 13 when I read Judas kiss, and I placed the plot around and inside that grand and spectacular hunter mansion.
This was the first gothic romance that I read. And every time now when I think of it I have a strong feeling of nostalgia. There was some kind of brutality and brilliance in it that I loved, and I completely lost myself within the words, but most all, I remember as it was yesterday, how I used to mentally hide myself inside that spectacular forest of Bavaria. This book was so beautifully green.
It sounds odd and a bit koo koo, but I really adored this book."
"I love Victoria Holt. Well, actually, I love Jean Plaidy, that's who Victoria Holt really is. She just wrote under the name Victoria Holt, and also under the name Philippa Carr.
And this is the one I've liked the best so far. The heroine's name is actually Philippa (Pippa, for short)and we begin her story on a small island in the Mediterranean somewhere off the coast of Italy. Her father is a sculptor, her mother his muse, and her sister Francine, her best friend. When their mother dies, followed shortly by their father, they return to England to live with their grandparents. Their grandfather rules Greystone Manor with a tyrant's fist, and Pippa and her sister try to please him, but come up short. When Francine falls in love and runs off with a neighbor visiting from the Germanic country Bruxenstein, Pippa is left alone with her grandfather's wrath.
Several years later Pippa learns the awful truth - her sister and her husband were murdered in a political plot in Bruxenstein, and Pippa travels to the country to find the child she insist exists, though no one believes her. Will she find the truth? Will she find love? Or will she find disaster? Or all three???"
"Another beautiful book written by Victoria Holt. The story takes the reader to the Bavarian Alps in the 1800's, amidst political upheavals, conspiracy, love and murder. The narration of the story, done in the first person, captures the reader's attention, by growing up with the main character. 3.5 out of 5 stars."
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