Tuesday 26th, 2012, 7 p.m., Jean Zimmerman presents The Orphanmaster, and a Powerpoint presentation. Who is kidnapping the orphans in 1660s New Amsterdam? The algonquin demon? The ambitious she-merchant? The decadent aristocrat? The corrupt orphanmaster? Our sales rep couldn't stop raving about this novel! In The Orphanmaster, a quick-witted twenty-two-year-old orphan, Blandine von Couvering, and a dashing British spy named Edward Drummond begin to investigate the mysterious deaths of orphan children in the tiny, hardscrabble Dutch colony of New Amsterdam (now present-day southern Manhattan) during the year 1663. Both the search for the killer and Edward and Blandine’s newfound romance are endangered, however, when Blandine is accused of being a witch and Edward is sentenced to hang for espionage. Meanwhile, war looms as the English king plans to wrest control of the colony.   A Powerpoint presentation by the author, on the research that went in to writing this historical novel, will be presented at this book signing.