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My Mistress' Eyes are Raven Black Hardcover – July 27, 2021
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Turner (July 27, 2021) Language
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320 pages ISBN-10
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As the grandchild of people who entered through Ellis Island, this novel struck a chord. I like the historical nature of the novel and a different take on Ellis Island. Good story. Interesting characters. Great description. But too long. At times Roberts beats the reader over the head with his theme. He’s right, but most people believe the same thing already. I’ve read A Short Time to Stay Here, so I already knew Stephen’s background. For me there was a lot of redundancy while for others there might seem to be too many coincidences. Only one real criticism; I’d recommend the book.
Beautifully written mystery. Loved it@
Roberts has not failed with his storytelling. This time he brought the truths that need to be told to the forefront through a touching and personal story. Weaving the facts of the early 20th Century into a mystery story results in a warm but telling story of the American psyche-one that must be learned and dealt with if Americans are ever to live together in peace. Bravo Terry for starting the conversation once more.
Excellent!!!! I couldn't put the book down! As a fan of the author, I was anxious for the arrival of his newest novel! It did not disappoint! Being a retired nurse ,I became absorbed in the isolation hospital on Ellis Island. During my nursing career I have worked with Nurse Lucy, Nurse Adams and Head Nurse Blanche Taylor! I alo related as a North Carolinean and a visitor of Liberty Island. The characters are explosive! Kudos to Roberts! Waiting for you next book!
The great American dilemma is examined on Ellis Island, landmark of hope for generations of immigrants. Roberts asks big questions as characters pull us quickly into a dark conspiracy. A must read!
Another enjoyable novel by Terry Roberts. I highly recommend this book and look forward to his next one. Hope it is set in the Mountains of North Carolina.
We want to thank @turnerpub for sending us and advanced reader’s copy of My Mistress’ Eyes Are Raven Black by Terry Roberts! I loved this book so much! It’s set on Ellis Island just after WW1 has ended. I just happened to be making a trip to NYC and was able to snap this picture at Ellis Island! I really enjoyed reading this book after visiting Ellis Island in person. I was really able to visualize the story in a fascinating way. Mysterious deaths and missing persons have the attention of the Bureau of Investigation. Someone is deciding who lives and who dies at the isolation hospital and Stephen Robbins is the man sent to find out. He teams up with nurse Lucy Paul and they shockingly find out that the victims were murdered because they were deemed “racially impure”. Their mission is to find out who is responsible for these atrocities and bring them to justice. They soon find themselves in danger and in fear for their lives as they try to catch the culprits in the act of their crimes.
This is an enchantingly claustrophobic historical mystery that fills its tightly restricted setting--the immigration-related buildings of Ellis Island--with palpable tension. Having read the earlier adventures of Stephen Robbins in A SHORT TIME TO STAY HERE during the height of the pandemic, I was disappointed at the beginning of this new novel by the loss of Anna Ulmann. I missed her for the first few chapters of MY MISTRESS' EYES ARE RAVEN BLACK, but it wasn't long before the arrival and development of Lucy Paul more than made up for Anna's betrayal and disappearance. Lucy is a better match for Stephen in every way, and he certainly needs her help in this richly plotted story. Robbins and Paul are supported by a cast of well-imagined characters who are all interesting and dangerous--for good or ill--in their individual ways. The story Roberts tells feels authentic, which suggests more than adequate research into the processes and the portal through which came those "'tired, . . . poor, / . . . huddled masses yearning to breathe free. . . .'" Their welcome was far from certain--as is the case for their immigrating followers today, and it is perhaps due, barely, to the USA's own status as a nation of immigrant invaders and to its better angels--represented here by Robbins, Lucy, the Nameless Man, and others--that we didn't join WWII on the side of Hitler some twenty years after the close of this novel. (I'm not certain we would make the same choice today.) Roberts continues to write strong yet lyrical prose. Stephen Robbins's voice is friendly and engaging. And as it was with Stephen and Anna in A SHORT TIME TO STAY HERE, the sensuality of the relationship between Stephen and Lucy seems, perhaps, both surprising for a historical novel and delightfully steamy, providing readers with the same brief respite and solace Stephen and Lucy enjoy in the darkness that threatens to overwhelm Ellis Island then . . . and our own various borders now.
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Winner of the 2022 ThrillerFest Award for Best Original Paperback Novel
"[An] impressive historical thriller." —Publishers Weekly
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.
"[ My Mistress' Eyes are Raven Black ] is pure entertainment–think Raymond Chandler or, perhaps, an Appalachian James Lee Burke. At the same time, the book confronts the reader with important questions about American immigration policies and race. Set at Ellis Island in the early 1920s, it is nonetheless sharply relevant in today's America." — Wayne Caldwell, Author of Cataloochee
"Terry Roberts has a knack for exploring the forgotten corners of American history—and then shining a light on the moral ambiguities he finds there. And he knows how to tell a story. This one has all the right ingredients: fascinating setting, winning characters, mystery, real suspense, and romance. I thoroughly enjoyed it." — Julia Franks, Author of Over the Plain Houses
"Terry Roberts' new novel is a literary thriller of the highest order: lyrical and suspenseful, with characters you will long remember. This is a heart-pounding, timely, and completely immersive read. It's also Roberts' finest hour." — Silas House, author of Southernmost
"In My Mistress’ Eyes Are Raven Black Terry Roberts expands his fictional world as never before, from the mountains of North Carolina to Ellis Island, the heart and soul of America. Roberts tells a story of mystery, intrigue, murder, bigotry, and romance. With homage to the masters of crime fiction, Cain, Thompson, Chandler, and the Hammett of The Thin Man , this novel has thrilling action, and humor, as it addresses both the racism and humanity in our culture, in 1920, and the present." — Robert Morgan, Author of Gap Creek and Chasing the North Star
My Mistress’ Eyes Are Raven Black is a suspenseful and original historical novel—an amalgam of twisted psychologies and cloak-and-dagger nostalgia with a teasing, passionate romance." — Foreword Reviews (starred review)
Creating a 'page-turner' has always seemed to me to require something beyond writing. An author may be an excellent wordsmith, have brilliant ideas, and yet never achieve the deep understanding of human psychology or the precise timing and rhythm that is needed to hook a reader. My Mistress’ Eyes Are Raven Black is a true page-turner." — The Southern Bookseller Review
"[ My Mistress' Eyes are Raven Black ] illuminates stereotypes and assumptions about who deserved to immigrate to America during this dark chapter of history." — Booklist
"[An] impressive historical thriller." — Publishers Weekly
" In My Mistress’ Eyes Are Raven Black , Terry Roberts expertly blends the thriller and romance genres to tell a timely story about the terrifying extent to which some people will go to assuage their fear of 'the Other.' I couldn’t put this book down." — Washington Independent Review of Books
“Part detective story, part romance, part social commentary, the book builds to a satisfying conclusion and leaves the reader to ponder the larger societal issues.” —Historical Novel Society
Terry Roberts is the author of three celebrated novels: A Short Time to Stay Here (winner of the Willie Morris Prize for Southern Fiction and the Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction); That Bright Land (winner of the Thomas Wolfe Literary Award, the James Still Award for Writing About the Appalachian South and the Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction); and most recently, The Holy Ghost Speakeasy and Revival (a finalist for the 2019 Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction).
Roberts is a lifelong teacher and educational reformer as well as an award-winning novelist. He is a native of the mountains of Western North Carolina―born and bred. His ancestors include six generations of mountain farmers, as well as the bootleggers and preachers who appear in his novels. He was raised close by his grandmother, Belva Anderson Roberts, who was born in 1888 and passed down to him the magic of the past along with the grit and humor of mountain storytelling.
Currently, Roberts is the Director of the National Paideia Center and lives in Asheville, North Carolina with his wife, Lynn.
Terry Roberts is the author of four celebrated novels: A Short Time to Stay Here (winner of the Willie Morris Prize for Southern Fiction and the Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction); That Bright Land (winner of the Thomas Wolfe Literary Award, the James Still Award for Writing About the Appalachian South and the Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction); and, The Holy Ghost Speakeasy and Revival (a finalist for the 2019 Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction) and most recently, My Mistress’ Eyes are Raven Black (Finalist for the 2022 Best Paperback Original Novel by the International Thriller Writers Organization). Roberts’ fifth novel, The Sky Club, was released in July of 2022.
Roberts is a lifelong teacher and educational reformer as well as an award-winning novelist. He is a native of the mountains of Western North Carolina—born and bred. His ancestors include six generations of mountain farmers, as well as the bootleggers and preachers who appear in his novels. He was raised close by his grandmother, Belva Anderson Roberts, who was born in 1888 and passed to him the magic of the past along with the grit and humor of mountain story telling.
Roberts is the Director of the National Paideia Center and lives in Asheville, North Carolina with his wife, Lynn.
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My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun (Sonnet 130)
But, lo! from forth a copse that neighbours by,
A breeding jennet, lusty, young, and proud,
Adonis' trampling courser doth espy,
And forth she rushes, snorts and neighs aloud;
The strong-neck'd steed, being tied unto a tree,
Breaketh his rein, and to her straight goes he.
Imperiously he leaps, he neighs, he bounds,
And now his woven girths he breaks asunder;
The bearing earth with his hard hoof he wounds,
Whose hollow womb resounds like heaven's thunder;
The iron bit he crushes 'tween his teeth
Controlling what he was controlled with.
His ears up-prick'd; his braided hanging mane
Upon his compass'd crest now stand on end;
His nostrils drink the air, and forth again,
As from a furnace, vapours doth he send:
His eye, which scornfully glisters like fire,
Shows his hot courage and his high desire.
Sometime her trots, as if he told the steps,
With gentle majesty and modest pride;
Anon he rears upright, curvets and leaps,
As who should say, 'Lo! thus my strength is tried;
And this I do to captivate the eye
Of the fair breeder that is standing by.'
What recketh he his rider's angry stir,
His flattering 'Holla,' or his 'Stand, I say?'
What cares he now for curb of pricking spur?
For rich caparisons or trapping gay?
He sees his love, and nothing else he sees,
Nor nothing else with his proud sight agrees.
Look, when a painter would surpass the life,
In limning out a well-proportion'd steed,
His art with nature's workmanship at strife,
As if the dead the living should exceed;
So did this horse excel a common one,
In shape, in courage, colour, pace and bone
Round-hoof'd, short-jointed, fetlocks shag and long,
Broad breast, full eye, small head, and nostril wide,
High crest, short ears, straight legs and passing strong,
Thin mane, thick tail, broad buttock, tender hide:
Look, what a horse should have he did not lack,
Save a proud rider on so proud a back.
Sometimes he scuds far off, and there he stares;
Anon he starts at stirring of a feather;
To bid the wind a race he now prepares,
And whe'r he run or fly they know not whether;
For through his mane and tail the high wind sings,
Fanning the hairs, who wave like feather'd wings.
He looks upon his love, and neighs unto her;
She answers him as if she knew his mind;
Being proud, as females are, to see him woo her,
She puts on outward strangeness, seems unkind,
Spurns at his love and scorns the heat he feels,
Beating his kind embracements with her heels.
Then, like a melancholy malcontent,
He vails his tail that, like a falling plume
Cool shadow to his melting buttock lent:
He stamps, and bites the poor flies in his fume.
His love, perceiving how he is enrag'd,
Grew kinder, and his fury was assuag'd.
His testy master goeth abou
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