After being overlooked for a promotion because she was a woman (it was 1925 after all), Irene Blum decides to head for the jungles of Cambodia on a treasure hunt for the lost copper scrolls of the Khmer civilization to cement her place in the museum industry. Her mentor Henry Simms gives her little ...
I am often quiet about a book when I don't quite know where I stand. If I love it or hate it, then I have to tell others what is going on in my head /heart! This one has good things and bad. It is basically an adventure-mystery-intrigue novel with romance thrown in too. I was looking more for intere...
The Map of Lost Memories already sounded good just by my reading the synopsis. It was everything I was hoping it would be, and more: a fast-flowing historical fiction story, complete with adventure and women breaking all the rules.The story is set in 1925; Irene is fed up with being constantly overl...
Set in 1925, this sophisticated, character-rich adventure begins in the Pacific Northwest, but most of the action takes place in the politically charged city of Shanghai and dense, steamy jungles of Cambodia, home of the ancient Khmer empire. Irene Blum is sure she is going to be put in charge of th...
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