Book Preview People disappear all the time. Ask any policeman. Better yet, ask a journalist. Disappearances are bread-and-butter to journalists. Young girls run away from home. Young children stray from their parents and are never seen again. Housewives reach the end of their tether and take the grocery money and a taxi to the station. … Read more
Book Preview DIANA GABALDON is the author of the international bestselling Outlander novels and Lord John Grey series. She says that the Outlander series started by accident: ‘I decided to write a novel for practice in order to learn what it took to write a novel, and to decide whether I really wanted to do … Read more
Book Preview Chronology of the Novels: When to Read What? The Lord John novellas and novels1 are sequential, but are built to stand alone; you don’t need to read them in order. In terms of their relationship to the larger Outlander novels: These books are part of the overall series, but are focused for the … Read more
Book Preview Acknowledgments The author would like to thank all the kind people who have given me information and help in the course of this novel, particularly— …Mr. Richard Jacobs, Krefeld local historian, and his wife Monika, who walked the battlefield at Krefeld (“Crefeld” is the older, eighteenth-century spelling) and the Landwehr with me, explaining … Read more
Book Preview Acknowledgments Interviewers are always asking me how many research assistants I employ. The answer is “None.” I do all my own research—because I simply wouldn’t have any idea what to tell an assistant to go look for! However, the answer also is “Hundreds!”—because so many nice people not only answer my random inquiries … Read more