The captivating story of a young woman's pursuit of justice and her struggle with the moral complexities of revenge in seventeenth-century Switzerland.
Beatrice Barbary has been raised to believe that while education will set her mind free, there are some questions better left unanswered. But when her father, one of the most powerful men in Bern, is brutally murdered in their own home, she is left reeling, unprotected and vulnerable. Plunging headfirst into the mysteries surrounding her father and her own upbringing, Beatrice discovers The Order of St. Eve and the violent secrets they have been hiding her entire life.
Will she be able to right the wrongs of her father, or will the Order silence her first? Set in a city at breaking point, Beatrice's story toes the dangerously thin line between retribution and revenge, and the choice we must make when confronted by evil. A loose retelling of Bluebeard, The House of Barbary is a fierce, feminist novel perfect for readers of Sarah Penner and Jessie Burton.

Portrait

Isabelle Schuler is a Swiss-American actress, writer and former Waterstones bookseller.
She has a BA in Journalism and her screenplay Queen Hereafter was longlisted by the Thousand Films Screenwriting Competition in 2019. In 2020, Schuler adapted Queen Hereafter into her debut novel, Lady MacBethad. She lives in Hertfordshire.