Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Summer, 1920. The immigration and public health authorities on Ellis Island in New York Harbor are slowly recovering from the war years, even as a new influx of European and African immigrants is flooding the Great Hall. A young, pregnant, Irish woman, Ciara McManaway, disappears from the Isolation Hospital on Ellis Island.
Stephen Robbins, a specialist in finding the missing--persons as well as things--is sent to Ellis Island by his boss in the Bureau of Investigation to locate the McManaway woman. Once Stephen sets up shop (living in the Psychopathic Ward of the Isolation Hospital), he meets a nurse named Lucy Paul, who is also an investigator, sent by the American Medical Association to explore why so many patients in the Ellis Island Hospitals are dying of unexplained causes or disappearing entirely.
Thrown together in increasingly dangerous circumstances, Stephen and Lucy eventually discover a conspiracy inspired by Blanche Taylor, the Head Nurse in the Isolation Hospital. Taylor is a sweet and grandmotherly woman who is venerated as a Christian saint by those around her. Taylor and her followers--called the Congregation--are quietly disposing of those types of immigrants who, they believe, should be kept from entering the United States because they will corrupt and replace the pure Nordic core of the American population.
As Stephen and Lucy's partnership becomes more intimate, she confesses to him that she is herself a "mulatto," and they realize that under the increasingly strict immigration policies of the 1920s, neither would likely be admitted to the United States. And when Nurse Taylor and her disciples realize that Stephen and Lucy are there to stop the series of immigrant murders, the partners themselves become the next targets.
Set in the years following World War I, when racial tensions in the U.S. are growing and the science of eugenics is widely accepted, My Mistress' Eyes are Raven Black explores just how far human beings will go to protect racial purity and condemn those they fear.
Synopsis
Ellis Island, 1920. The immigration and public health authorities in New York Harbor are slowly recovering from the war years when a young, pregnant Irish woman disappears from the Isolation Hospital on Ellis Island.
Stephen Robbins, a specialist in finding missing persons, is assigned the case. Yet when he arrives at the site, he discovers a secretive staff and a string of inexplicable deaths and disappearances among immigrant patients in Ellis Island hospitals. Stephen finds an ally in Lucy Paul, a nurse who is also investigating the disappearances, and together they begin to unearth a horrifying conspiracy masked beneath the Isolation Hospital's charitable exterior. As Stephen and Lucy get closer to the truth and each other, they are swept directly into the dangerous mystery haunting Ellis Island and become the next targets themselves.
Set in the years following World War I, when racial tensions in the U.S. are growing and the science of eugenics is widely accepted, My Mistress' Eyes are Raven Black explores just how far human beings will go to protect racial purity and condemn those they fear.
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An] impressive historical thriller. -Publisher's Weekly
Ellis Island, 1920.
New York Harbor's immigration and public health authorities are slowly recovering from the war years when a young, pregnant Irish woman disappears from the Isolation Hospital on Ellis Island.
Stephen Robbins, a specialist in finding missing persons, is assigned the case. Yet when he arrives at the isolation hospital, he discovers an inexplicable string of deaths and disappearances among immigrant patients...and a staff that seems to be hiding a chilling secret. Stephen finds an ally in Lucy Paul, an undercover nurse who is also investigating the mysterious incidents. Together, they begin to unearth a horrifying conspiracy masked beneath the hospital's charitable exterior. As Stephen and Lucy get closer to the truth and each other, they are swept directly into the danger haunting Ellis Island and become the next targets.
Amidst growing racial tensions in the wake of World War I, My Mistress' Eyes are Raven Black explores the disturbing lengths to which people will go to protect racial purity and condemn those they fear.
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Winner of the 2022 ThrillerFest Award for Best Original Paperback Novel
" An] impressive historical thriller." --Publishers Weekly
Ellis Island, 1920.
New York Harbor's immigration and public health authorities are slowly recovering from the war years when a young, pregnant Irish woman disappears from the Isolation Hospital on Ellis Island.
Stephen Robbins, a specialist in finding missing persons, is assigned the case. Yet when he arrives at the isolation hospital, he discovers an inexplicable string of deaths and disappearances among immigrant patients...and a staff that seems to be hiding a chilling secret. Stephen finds an ally in Lucy Paul, an undercover nurse who is also investigating the mysterious incidents. Together, they begin to unearth a horrifying conspiracy masked beneath the hospital's charitable exterior. As Stephen and Lucy get closer to the truth and each other, they are swept directly into the danger haunting Ellis Island and become the next targets.
Amidst growing racial tensions in the wake of World War I, My Mistress' Eyes are Raven Black explores the disturbing lengths to which people will go to protect racial purity and condemn those they fear.
Synopsis
My Mistress' Eyes Are Raven Black is a noir thriller set on Ellis Island in 1920. It explores the disturbing lengths to which people will go to protect racial purity and condemn those they fear.