The Secret Keeper: A Novel
Washington Square Press, July 2013. Trade Paperback. Item #320689
ISBN: 1439152810
A mesmerizing novel of love, deception, and murder. Sixteen year old Laurel witnesses a deplorable crime that challenges all she knows about her mother. Laurel searches for answers that only can be found in her mother’s past. She traces the motive to the history of three strangers from dissimilar worlds flung together in war-torn London. The book will keep you engrossed to the end. Very good in wrappers (paperback).
From the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author of The Distant Hours, The Forgotten Garden, and The House at Riverton, a spellbinding novel of family secrets, murder, and enduring love. During a picnic at her family's farm in the English countryside, sixteen-year-old Laurel Nicolson witnesses a shocking crime, a crime that challenges everything she knows about her adored mother, Dorothy. Now, fifty years later, Laurel and her sisters are meeting at the farm to celebrate Dorothy's ninetieth birthday. Realizing that this is her last chance to discover the truth about that long-ago day, Laurel searches for answers that can only be found in Dorothy's past. Clue by clue, she traces a secret history of three strangers from vastly different worlds thrown together in war-torn London--Dorothy, Vivien, and Jimmy--whose lives are forever after entwined. A gripping story of deception and passion, The Secret Keeper will keep you enthralled to the last page.
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