Cover Blurb:
With death at her heels, a woman
races breathlessly towards discovering the truth behind EVERY SECRET
THING.
Moving between
fast-paced modern-day
London and Canada to the dangerous, double-crossing streets of war-time
Lisbon, comes this thrilling mystery and intriguing love story from a
brilliant new voice.
When an old man strikes up a conversation with her on the steps of St.
Paul's and makes a mystifying allusion to a murder and an oddly
familiar comment about her grandmother, Kate Murray is intrigued.
But she never gets to hear the rest of Andrew Deacon's tale.
Shocked by his unexpected death, she wonders who this strange, old man
is, and what the odd reference to her grandmother could mean.
Interest piqued by the story never told, Kate becomes drawn into an
investigation, uncovering secrets about the grandmother she thought she
knew and a man she never did.
Soon she is caught up in a dangerous whirlwind of events that takes her
back into her grandmother's mysterious war-time past and across the
Atlantic as she tries to retrace Deacon's footsteps.
Finding out the truth is not so simple, however, as only a few people
are still alive who know the story...and Kate soon realizes that her
questions are putting their lives in danger. Stalked by an
unknown and sinister enemy, and facing death every step of the way,
Kate must use her tough journalistic instinct to find the answers from
the past in order to have a future.
(About the Author)
"Emma Cole is the
thriller-writing alias
of Canadian novelist Susanna Kearsley. A former museum curator,
she brings her own passion for research and travel to bear in her
books, weaving history with modern-day intrigue in a way that, in the
words of one reviewer, 'tells the story of the past and illuminates the
present'. As Susanna Kearsley, she has written several novels of
suspense, including Mariana,
which won the prestigious Catherine Cookson Literary Prize."
Excerpt from the
Author's Note
"We writers choose our
stories, sometimes. Sometimes, they choose
us."
Dedication:
"This book is for Euan, who wouldn't give up, and my
grandparents,
Mary and Harry and Edith and Ab, who were young, and are never
forgotten."
Introductory Poetry:
Speech after long
silence; it is right
...Unfriendly lamplight hid under its shade,
The curtains drawn upon unfriendly night,
-- WB Yeats, "After Long
Silence"
