Book of Trees: Palm and Citron (6)
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?
Book of Trees: Myrtle and Rose (2)
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,
