The Bloodletter's Daughter: A Novel of Old Bohemia (Novels of Old Bohemia)

In seventeenth-century Prague, the mentally unstable Don Julius develops a dangerous obsession with bathmaid Marketa when she helps her barber-surgeon father perform a bloodletting procedure to cure his madness.

Linda Lafferty taught in public education for nearly three decades, in schools from the American School of Madrid to the Boulder Valley schools to the Aspen school district. She completed her PhD in bilingual special education and went on to work in that field, as well as teaching English as a second language and bilingual American history. Horses are Linda s first love, and she rode on the University of Lancaster s riding team for a year in England. As a teenager, her uncle introduced her to the sport of polo, and she played in her first polo tournament when she was seventeen. Linda also loves Siena, Italy, and the people of the region and has returned to the city half a dozen times in the past three years to research her novel. Linda is the author of three previous novels: The Bloodletter s Daughter, The Drowning Guard, and House of Bathory. She lives in Colorado with her husband.

Carrington MacDuffie is a recording artist, writer, and voice actor who has narrated over 100 audiobooks and received numerous AudioFile Earphones awards and 6 Audie finalists. Her original audiobook of poetry and music, Many Things Invisible, was nominated for an Audie in 2 categories. Kliatt says, 'MacDuffie's reading is amazing.'