Book of Trees
I found a box in the basement.
Each object carries secrets.
Chapter 7: Interlude: (The Pages in the Wall)
This is my great-grandfather’s last manuscript, written while he was incarcerated in the Lvov Ghetto, before the g-ddamn Nazis murdered him…
Chapter 6: Palm and Citron
George’s family fled the Inquisition.
Eighty-four years after his birth and baptism at the Domus Conversorum, he faced the same process.
When they tried him, they used the Inquisition’s test for conversos: Can you recite the Lord’s Prayer?
Chapter 2: Myrtle and Rose
A new mystery, The Language of Flowers, links to old books, how to make rosewater, and trusting your instincts.
“The Crooked Branch” series of Book of Trees traces a legacy of whispers and shadows.
THE MYSTERY:
My peculiar mother hid things in boxes, secreted under an 18th-century house in the woods, with a stream running through its basement. I opened a box with my grandpa,
