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Katherine Kellgren
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Susanna Kearsley
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No one lives forever. But the truth survives us all. Kate Murray is deeply troubled. In front of her lies a dead man, a stranger who only minutes before had approached her wanting to tell her about a mystery, a long-forgotten murder. The crime was old, he'd told her, but still deserving of justice. Soon Kate 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 the dead man'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, she must use her tough journalistic instinct to find the answers from the past - before she has to say goodbye to her future.
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You won't remember Mr. Heming. He was the estate agent who showed you around your comfortable home, suggested a financial package, negotiated a price with the owner, and called you with the good news. The less good news is that, all these years later, he still has the key. That's absurd, you laugh. Of all the many hundreds of houses he has sold, why would he still have the key to mine? The answer is; he has the keys to them all. William Heming's most at home in a stranger's private things.
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- De Janice en 02-05-15
De: Phil Hogan
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Hero: A Simon Serrailler Short Story
- De: Susan Hill
- Narrado por: Steven Pacey
- Duración: 51 m
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When Simon Serrailler was a rookie constable with the Met, he did something reckless in the course of a night's work which caused a man's death. But his act was praised by his colleagues, and he was called a hero. Years later, now a detective chief superintendent who has been badly injured in the course of duty, he receives a medal for bravery at Buckingham Palace while recollecting that fateful night of his early career, when chance disguised itself as bravery.
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- De Pamela Donaldson en 05-10-17
De: Susan Hill
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The Blood Strand
- Foroyar Triology, Book 1
- De: Chris Ould
- Narrado por: Matt Addis
- Duración: 11 h y 8 m
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Jan Reyna is a murder squad detective, British by adoption and choice, Faroese by birth and history. Called back to the remote Danish Faroe Islands when his father suffers a paralysing stroke, Reyna is forced to reexamine his decades-long rejection of the past and of his father in particular. But in this now-foreign country, whose language and customs he no longer understands, Reyna is also drawn into a rare Faroese murder case.
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excellent first book
- De Dr. William J. Kass en 03-22-16
De: Chris Ould
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The Ghost Writer
- A Novel
- De: Robert Harris
- Narrado por: Roger Rees
- Duración: 8 h y 48 m
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Adam Lang has been Britain’s longest serving—and most controversial—prime minister of the last half century. As pressure mounts for Lang to complete this memoirs, he hires a professional ghostwriter to finish the book. As he sets to work, the ghostwriter discovers many more secrets than Lang intends to reveal, secrets with the power to alter world politics - secrets with the power to kill.
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Too close to the truth?
- De carl801 en 11-24-07
De: Robert Harris
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Red Ribbons
- Dr. Kate Pearson, Book 1
- De: Louise Phillips
- Narrado por: Caroline Morahan
- Duración: 12 h y 31 m
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A missing schoolgirl is found buried in the Dublin Mountains, hands clasped together in prayer, two red ribbons in her hair. Twenty-four hours later, a second schoolgirl is found in a shallow grave - her body identically arranged. The hunt for the killer is on. The police call in criminal psychologist Kate Pearson to get inside the mind of the murderer before he strikes again. But the more Kate discovers about the killings, the more it all feels terrifyingly familiar.
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A true psychological thriller
- De BARBARA WAGONER en 12-24-16
De: Louise Phillips
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The Sunday Philosophy Club
- An Isabel Dalhousie Mystery
- De: Alexander McCall Smith
- Narrado por: Davina Porter
- Duración: 8 h y 2 m
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New York Times best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith, winner of the first-ever Saga Award for Wit, has entertained millions with his beloved No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency mysteries. Now this phenomenally popular author introduces a fresh series, brimming with the charm and humor his stable of dedicated fans can't get enough of.
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Advice For Prospective Listeners
- De DCinMI en 02-18-13
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A Grave Talent
- A Kate Martinelli Mystery, Book 1
- De: Laurie R. King
- Narrado por: Alyssa Bresnahan
- Duración: 14 h y 14 m
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The unthinkable has happened in a small community outside of San Francisco. A series of shocking murders has occurred, the victims far too innocent and defenseless. For Detective Kate Martinelli, just promoted to Homicide and paired with a seasoned cop who's less than thrilled to be handed a green partner, it's a difficult case that just keeps getting harder. Then the detectives receive what appears to be a case-breaking lead.
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Another Fantastic Series by Laurie R. King
- De Anna en 03-29-15
De: Laurie R. King
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Down Cemetery Road
- De: Mick Herron
- Narrado por: Julia Franklin
- Duración: 13 h y 46 m
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When a house explodes in a quiet Oxford suburb and a young girl disappears in the aftermath, Sarah Tucker becomes obsessed with finding her. Accustomed to dull chores in a childless household and hosting her husband’s wearisome business clients for dinner, Sarah suddenly finds herself questioning everything she thought she knew, as her investigation reveals that people long believed dead are still among the living, while the living are fast joining the dead.
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A bit of a slog....
- De rhl60 en 01-26-24
De: Mick Herron
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The Cracked Spine
- Scottish Bookshop Mystery, Book 1
- De: Paige Shelton
- Narrado por: Carrington MacDuffie
- Duración: 7 h y 56 m
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In need of a good adventure, Delaney Nichols takes the leap and moves to Edinburgh, Scotland, to start a job at The Cracked Spine. She doesn't know much about what she's gotten herself into other than that the work sounds exciting and that her new boss, Edwin MacAlister, has given her the opportunity of a lifetime.
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A bit unbelievable
- De Beatrice en 04-01-16
De: Paige Shelton
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A Peculiar Combination
- De: Ashley Weaver
- Narrado por: Alison Larkin
- Duración: 9 h y 37 m
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Electra McDonnell has always known that the way she and her family earn their living is slightly outside of the law. Breaking into the homes of the rich and picking the locks on their safes may not be condoned by British law enforcement, but World War II is in full swing, Ellie's cousins, Colm and Toby, are off fighting against Hitler, and Uncle Mick's more honorable business as a locksmith can't pay the bills anymore. So when Uncle Mick receives a tip about a safe full of jewels in the empty house of a wealthy family, he and Ellie can’t resist.
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Spectacular
- De Emily en 12-27-21
De: Ashley Weaver
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A Share in Death
- De: Deborah Crombie
- Narrado por: Michael Deehy
- Duración: 7 h y 3 m
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A week's holiday in a luxurious hotel is just what Scotland Yard's Superintendent Duncan Kincaid needs. But his vacation ends dramatically with the discovery of a dead body in the whirlpool bath. Despite a suspicious lack of cooperation from the local constabulary, Kincaid's keen sense of duty won't allow him to ignore the heinous crime, impelling him to send for his enthusiastic young assistant, Sergeant Gemma James. But the stakes are raised significantly when a second murder occurs....
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series readers, start here
- De connie en 02-09-13
De: Deborah Crombie
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The Jewel in the Crown
- The Raj Quartet, Book 1
- De: Paul Scott
- Narrado por: Richard Brown
- Duración: 22 h y 41 m
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The first volume in Paul Scott's historical tour-de-force opens in 1942 as the British fear both Japanese invasion and Indian demands for self-rule. In the Mayapore gardens, Daphne Manners, daughter of the provincial governor, leaves her Indian lover, who will soon be arrested for her alleged rape.
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Superb writing, subverted by spiritless narration
- De mgale en 10-13-10
De: Paul Scott
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Named of the Dragon
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The charm of spending the Christmas holidays in South Wales, with its crumbling castles and ancient myths, seems the perfect distraction from the nightmares that have plagued literary agent Lyn Ravenshaw since the loss of her baby five years ago. Instead she meets an emotionally fragile young widow who's convinced that Lyn's recurring dreams have drawn her to Castle Farm for an important purpose - and she's running out of time.
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Not Kearsley's best
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For nearly 300 years, the cryptic journal of Mary Dundas has kept its secrets. Now, amateur codebreaker Sara Thomas travels to Paris to crack the cipher.... Jacobite exile Mary Dundas is filled with longing - for freedom, for adventure, for the family she lost. When fate opens the door, Mary dares to set her foot on a path far more surprising and dangerous than she ever could have dreamed.
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Archaeologist Verity Grey has been drawn to the dark legends of the Scottish Borderlands in search of the truth buried in a rocky field by the sea. Her eccentric boss has spent his whole life searching for the resting place of the lost Ninth Roman Legion and is convinced he's finally found it - not because of any scientific evidence, but because a local boy has "seen" a Roman soldier walking in the fields, a ghostly sentinel who guards the bodies of his long-dead comrades.
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Slow Build Atmospheric Story of Light Rom Susp
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Bellewether
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It's late summer, war is raging, and families are torn apart by divided loyalties and deadly secrets. In this complex and dangerous time, a young French Canadian lieutenant is captured and billeted with a Long Island family, an unwilling and unwelcome guest. As he begins to pitch in with the never-ending household tasks and farm chores, Jean-Philippe de Sabran finds himself drawn to the daughter of the house. Slowly, Lydia Wilde comes to lean on Jean-Philippe, true soldier and gentleman, until their lives become inextricably intertwined.
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Another great Susanna story!
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The Rose Garden
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Acclaimed author Susanna Kearsley's previous works have won the RT Book Reviews Reviewers Choice Award, and finaled for both the UK Romantic Novel of the Year and the RITA awards.
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Amazing story.
- De Angel Claire en 10-07-11
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The Deadly Hours
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From Italy in 1733 to Edinburgh in 1831 to a series of chilling murders in London in 1870 and a lethal game of revenge decades later, a watch touches lives with misfortune - until it comes into the hands of one young woman who might be able to stop it for good. This outstanding collaboration between four outstanding novelists follows characters who are irrevocably linked by fate, each one playing a key role in breaking the curse once and for all.
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- De Abby en 11-16-20
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The charm of spending the Christmas holidays in South Wales, with its crumbling castles and ancient myths, seems the perfect distraction from the nightmares that have plagued literary agent Lyn Ravenshaw since the loss of her baby five years ago. Instead she meets an emotionally fragile young widow who's convinced that Lyn's recurring dreams have drawn her to Castle Farm for an important purpose - and she's running out of time.
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Not Kearsley's best
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A Desperate Fortune
- De: Susanna Kearsley
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For nearly 300 years, the cryptic journal of Mary Dundas has kept its secrets. Now, amateur codebreaker Sara Thomas travels to Paris to crack the cipher.... Jacobite exile Mary Dundas is filled with longing - for freedom, for adventure, for the family she lost. When fate opens the door, Mary dares to set her foot on a path far more surprising and dangerous than she ever could have dreamed.
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The Shadowy Horses
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Archaeologist Verity Grey has been drawn to the dark legends of the Scottish Borderlands in search of the truth buried in a rocky field by the sea. Her eccentric boss has spent his whole life searching for the resting place of the lost Ninth Roman Legion and is convinced he's finally found it - not because of any scientific evidence, but because a local boy has "seen" a Roman soldier walking in the fields, a ghostly sentinel who guards the bodies of his long-dead comrades.
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Slow Build Atmospheric Story of Light Rom Susp
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Bellewether
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It's late summer, war is raging, and families are torn apart by divided loyalties and deadly secrets. In this complex and dangerous time, a young French Canadian lieutenant is captured and billeted with a Long Island family, an unwilling and unwelcome guest. As he begins to pitch in with the never-ending household tasks and farm chores, Jean-Philippe de Sabran finds himself drawn to the daughter of the house. Slowly, Lydia Wilde comes to lean on Jean-Philippe, true soldier and gentleman, until their lives become inextricably intertwined.
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Another great Susanna story!
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The Rose Garden
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Amazing story.
- De Angel Claire en 10-07-11
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The Deadly Hours
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- De Abby en 11-16-20
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The King's Messenger
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It is the year 1613, and King James is sending his messenger Andrew Logan into Scotland with secret orders to arrest Sir David Moray, close friend and advisor of the late Prince Henry. Secrets are second nature to Andrew, who must hide his Second Sight to stay alive. Joined by a court scrivener and the scrivener's spirited daughter Phoebe, Andrew slowly untangles the true purpose of his mission—to frame Sir David for Prince Henry's murder. But Andrew is unwilling to betray an innocent man.
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Better even than The Winter’s Sea
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Edinburgh Twilight
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- De: Carole Lawrence
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Detective Inspector Ian Hamilton is no stranger to Edinburgh's darkest crimes. Scarred by the mysterious fire that killed his parents, he faces his toughest case yet when a young man is found strangled in Holyrood Park. With little evidence aside from a strange playing card found on the body, Hamilton engages the help of his aunt, a gifted photographer, and George Pearson, a librarian with a shared interest in the criminal mind.
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De: Carole Lawrence
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Echoes of the Runes
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When Mia inherits her beloved grandmother's summer cottage, Birch Thorpe, in Sweden, she faces a dilemma. Her fiance Charles urges her to sell and buy a swanky London home, but Mia cannot let it go easily. The request to carry out an archaeological dig for more Viking artefacts like the gold ring Mia's grandmother also left her, offers her a reprieve from a decision - and from Charles.
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Vikings and reincarnation
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The Secret Keeper
- De: Kate Morton
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England, 1959: Laurel Nicolson is 16 years old, dreaming alone in her childhood tree house during a family celebration at their home, Green Acres Farm. She spies a stranger coming up the long road to the farm and then observes her mother, Dorothy, speaking to him. And then she witnesses a crime.
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Kate Morton (and Caroline Lee) does it again!
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De: Kate Morton
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The Gilded Hour
- De: Sara Donati
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
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The year is 1883, and in New York City it's a time of dizzying splendor, crushing poverty, and tremendous change. With the gravity-defying Brooklyn Bridge nearly complete and New York in the grips of antivice crusader Anthony Comstock, Anna Savard and her cousin, Sophie - both graduates of the Woman's Medical School - treat the city's most vulnerable, even if doing so may put everything they've strived for in jeopardy.
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Historical romance, surgical implements too!
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The Quiet Librarian
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- De: Allen Eskens
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Hana Babic is a quiet middle-aged librarian in Minnesota who wants nothing more than to be left alone. But when a detective arrives with the news that her best friend has been murdered, Hana knows that something evil has come for her, a dark remnant of the past she and her friend had shared. Thirty years before, Hana was someone else: Nura Divjak, a teenager growing up in the mountains of war-torn Bosnia—until Serbian soldiers arrived to slaughter her entire family before her eyes. The events of that day thrust Nura into the war, leading her to join a band of militia fighters.
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Slow start but great, but sad story
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De: Allen Eskens
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- Sophia Rose
- 01-24-17
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It all begins with a forgettable old man telling her he has a story about murder to share with her and then Kate watches him die before her eyes in a hit and run. Starting slowly like the dropping of a stone into a body of water and the waves increasing steadily in size. This is a story of discovery and an unforgettable story of past sacrifices and secrets touching the present with danger and murder.
Originally published under another pen name, Emma Cole, Every Secret Thing is now released by Susanna Kearsley as the first book in the Kate Murray series.
The story begins with Canadian journalist in London for a big murder trial. She's covering the story and when the verdict comes in, she'll wrap up and head back home to Toronto. While the jury is out deliberating, Kate encounters a bland forgettable older man outside the courthouse. He strikes up a conversation and then speaks of her writing up a story he has about an old case of murder that never saw justice. Kate is distracted by thoughts of her own story and thinks he's just a forgettable, lonely old man until she watches him walk away and die when struck by a car. He made one comment that disconcerts her- she has her grandmother's eyes. How would this stranger know that?
Next thing she knows, she is being warned away from Andrew Deacon's story, his things are ransacked, and everyone connected to him is meeting with fatalities. It really strikes home when just after she gets back to Toronto, her grandmother tells her a story- a story of a life during the war years when her grandmother worked for a top man in British intelligence in NYC. Kate is flabbergasted to discover that not only did her grandmother know Andrew Deacon, but they were close. Then her grandmother is shot.
Kate goes on the run for her life and knows that she'll never be safe until she discovers the truth behind that old murder that Andrew Deacon wanted to come to light. Her investigations take her back into the past- Lisbon of the 40's. She must avoid those who are trailing her and keep those who know of the past safe even as someone is dead set on the opposite.
Alright, this book solidified what I already knew. I love Kearsley's work. I love her dual plotted stories that make the past come alive with the present story line and pose a cunning suspense and light romance plot as well. Every Secret Thing got going with some excitement and then turned gently paced in the middle. The end picked things up again.
But it was not just the pacing so much as how the plot was teased out. The reader is given an explosion of early facts and situation, characters, tone, and setting to drawn them in and get things started. Then details come along that start making sense while also confusing matters. Things are not always what they seem. Kate learns that she has to figure out who to trust and who is telling the truth. But that end-wow, a twist on a twist on a twist. So many details that I saw and didn't grasp the significance made the puzzle pieces finally fit and give the full picture. Some I worked out, but other pieces left me amazed.
Beyond the suspense, there was a beautiful bittersweet story of star-crossed lovers, people affected by war, honor, and duty, and hard truths. Many of the players in this one particularly in the past story line were so alive to me. At first, the reader is introduced to this old man who soon dies and he seems to be almost throwaway just to get the plot moving. Even now, I get emotional just thinking of how wonderful and heroic that self-effacing man really was and I had to hear his story knowing that he was gone- murdered. Kate is the central figure, but her story is tangled up with those in the past. I bawled my eyes out there near the end at the loss, pain, and poignancy of this story that goes well beyond the usual engaging romantic suspense piece.
The settings both historical New York City and Lisbon and modern day London, English country village, Lisbon, DC, and Toronto were well drawn. I felt I was there and could appreciate these international settings.
I enjoyed this book in audio format. It was my first time with Katherine Kellgren as the narrator. I thought her voice really matched well with the characters from the past. I think it is a gift to not only portray a persona and their accent, but a person not from modern times and then switch it with people from the present and representing several nationalities. She really gets into her storytelling and startled me the first time she told an exciting part because I wasn't ready for her to break out of her steady storytelling voice. But I adjusted and came to enjoy her dramatic telling.
This story felt complete when it ended, but I noticed that it had been labeled as the first of a series. I assume the main character, Kate, will have more suspenseful adventures and maybe do something about the attraction she shares with a certain someone.
In summary, this was abso-fab and I can't praise it enough. The mystery plot would have been enough, but the blend with that historical time, the people, and the tone made it extraordinary. Romantic suspense and historical mystery lovers really should grab it up.
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- Lulu
- 12-05-18
Too Many Ribbons Tied Up in the End
This book focused more on solving the historical mystery at the heart of all of Kearsley's books and very little on the romance. All of her books center around a historical mystery, but there is usually a little more subtle romance involved. That was fine and fit the plot well since the main character was in physical danger and people around her were being murdered. The mystery at the heart of this was also more recent than most books, with the historical part occurring during World War II versus the 17th or 18th century. All of that was fine.
My problem with this book was that she tied too many of the coincidences up in the end. This wasn't about a single family or small town generations apart, it was about World War II and the millions of people affected by and the even larger world today, and yet, in the end, she'd pieced together how these very disparate people from all over the world happened to meet each other and connect over a 60 year span. How did a Canadian pilot shot down in France just happen to hook up with British intelligence personnel at an out of the way windmill outside of Lisbon, Portugal?
There was no reason to connect every single relationship. The story would have been fine. The mystery itself was fairly plausible, except she never explained why the British government was so happy to cover up a crime and continued to do so long after it made sense just to protect someone not worth protecting. But, what made it implausible was the author's attempt at synchronicity.
As far as the narration of this audiobook goes, I am a big fan of the late Kathrine Kellgren - but it has to be the right book. She is perfect on the campy Royal Spyness mysteries. But there were a couple of times on this book that she got way too dramatic, stopped narrating and started (poorly) acting. That didn't help.
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- Tome Collector
- 10-27-17
I will truly read anything written by this author!
I've read or listened to nearly all of Ms. Kearsley's books, and most have some sort of mystery element, history element, and romance element. I have thoroughly enjoyed each and every one. Ever since I first opened and read The Winter Sea, I started buying up her books, eagerly devouring them. Many, if not most of them, have a far-in-the-past history element, and that was the initial draw... her descriptions, characterizations and plots simply make a book seem like a vacation to a different time. It's like being Dr.Who when you read! (That was for my fellow Sci-fi nerds.).
This book is a bit different. There is still the mystery (actually a crime to solve... a cold case), but the history takes place during a recent generation. After all, many of us living today had close family members (grandparents or parents, etc) who remembered WWII. Instead of making this novel less exciting, it seemed to have even more relevance, almost as if this could be a true crime novel. There was still a romance element to this book, but it was only there in a distant sort of way, you'll understand what I mean if you read/listen to the book. It wasn't so much a love in passing, like ships passing in the night, but a slow simmering type of journey back in time, all of it being told 2nd or 3rd hand. No passion, just sentiment for the past. Which is the way many of us still think of the way things were back in the 40s, so the romance element truly set the scene. Like the romance and the overall arc of the story were kindred spirits. The crime was also relevant enough and carried over enough into the "now" for some heart pounding, which makes for a more enjoyable novel.
As for the reader/narrator, I've listened to Katherine Kellgren many times before, and it's always a great experience. She does different voices for different people, but instead of putting on a fake-deep male voices, her own voice is perfect for a simply changing the timbre, the accent, the tone, or maybe adding some roughness, so that when she speaks the parts for men, you forget you're listening to a woman. If I think hard, I can still tell a woman is speaking, but she pulls the reader so far into the book, and so easily, that thinking of anything beyond the story itself, getting caught in the sheer excitement and drama of it, almost seems impossible.
I had a friend in the college orchestra once. They performed in the orchestra pit during school plays. After one play (not a concert, but a play), a friend came by to tell her how great the orchestra sounded during the show. My friend didn't say much until the person left, but then she turned to me, disappointed. She said, "we must've done a poor job of it." I asked why she would say that after receiving a compliment, and she pointed out, "during a play, we are supposed to bring the observer INto the play, not bring them OUT of it to listen to us." When I listen to a book read by Katherine Kellgren, I think she makes a great orchestra. Very seldom do I think "wow, what a good reader" when she reads, only noticing after the fact that I listened to a narrated book, instead of living in the story.
I will miss the characters from Every Secret Thing, especially the character who died first.
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- Stella Needs
- 07-20-17
Excellent book!
Historically interesting, much adventure and suspense, a non-cookie cutter novel, full of surprises and including a beautiful romance in the background. Strong & independent characters ( good & bad). Difficult to stop listening. What a great surprise.
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- Eddie Lynn
- 04-01-19
Great combo - author + narrator
While I have enjoyed other books by Susanna Kearsley, I chose this book because of the narrator. Others complain about her over-acting narration, I like it very much. Good narration IS acting. Also, few narrators can smoothly move from dialect to dialect as she could do. "Her Royal Spyness", Rhys Bowen's series, brought me to her fanbase where I gladly re-listen to that funny, funny series.
This book travels around the globe with the impact of WWII, MI-6 and private lives. I enjoyed the twisted intrigue and it fell into my book pattern of spies, murder and relationships.
Mostly, I enjoyed Katherine Kellgren again, knowing her library of narration is large, but her death removed her from our future listening relationship with her. I will continue to seek her books and hope they are as well written as Ms. Kearsley has done with Every Secret Thing.
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-03-22
I had to binge this, I couldn’t wait to hear what happened next.
I have LOVED l of Susanna Kearsley’s books. I’m torn which I enjoyed more. Highly recommend this one.
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- Cynthia
- 02-15-17
Outstanding!
I am in love with this story! It is one of which I will re-read again, and again. The characters are true to life with the images built in my mind.
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- Heather
- 02-25-22
Another great story from this author & narrator!
I really love Susanna Kearsley’s novels. She does a fantastic job of weaving past and present, romance and intrigue. Some of her books have a paranormal element like time travel, but this one does not.
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- Readsforfun
- 12-28-21
Nice but slow
This story was somewhat depressing and slow to me. I loved the narration. Too many prose and description with too little story. Left me feeling blue.
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- Lanar
- 12-21-23
Not her best effort
First of all, the performer’s voice was grating, sharp, and the many accents were pretty badly done. The story could have been shortened and tightened by several hours. Way too much descriptive prose.
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