The Blood Countess romantasy Pollack had grown up in

Pollack had grown up in the 1960s and ’70s dreaming of a career as a theoretical astrophysicist

Richard Osman’s debut novel is a celebration of friendship

She witnessed the rise of Nazism firsthand

Though they moved in different circles

Winner of The Pen / Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction

The Blood Countess romantasy Pollack had grown up inMurder, Betrayal, and the Making of a Monster. Whispers have long haunted the castle, the village, and the dark woods: the countess of one of Europes oldest families is a killer, some say bathing in her victims blood. When the kings men storm her manor, they find her in the act, murdering another maid. She is walled up in a tower, seen only from the barred upper window, brooding and cursing those who spoke against her. The legend of the Blood