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Learn moreTwenty-five years ago, Susan Prentice lost her mother to a tragic accident. Now she is returning home for the first time to Virginia's eastern shores and the ancestral house where her mother fell down to her death on the front steps twenty-five years ago.
Though Susan has little memory of the accident, her arrival has alarmed those who fear what may lie dormant in Susan's memory. But it is her maternal grandmother, Alex Montoro, a proud, intense, aging doyenne of the ballet, who believes that her memory must be unlocked, since Susan is the only living witness to the tragedyโand Alex suspects that her daughter's fall was no accident.
Once unlocked, Susan's memory could hold the key for solving what Alex believes to be an unsolved mystery.
Phyllis A. Whitney (1903โ2008) was born of American parents in Yokohama, Japan. She worked with books throughout her life as a librarian, bookseller, reviewer, writing teacher, and bestselling author. She was one of Americaโs most successful writers of romance and suspense and in 1988 won the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America.
Anna Fields (1965โ2006), winner of more than a dozen Earphones Awards and the prestigious Audieย Award in 2004, was one of the most respected narrators in the industry. Trained at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, she was also a director, producer, and technician at her own studio, Cedar House Audio.
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โOne of her best efforts, this carefully crafted novel of psychological suspense by the prolific Whitney, a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master, entices the reader into a series of enigmas.โ
“Energetic and richly textured...If terror and murder can be rendered ladylike, Phyllis Whitney is just the lady to do it.”
โWhitneyโs 36th mystery suspense is tighter, neater, better than ever.โ
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