The Secret Portrait

Lillian Stewart Carl
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The Flowers o' the Forest are a' wede awa'."

Fleeing an academic scandal and a broken marriage, Jean Fairbairn has come to Scotland to work for an Edinburgh-based history and travel magazine. Writing about the Scottish national pastime of playing illusion off reality is just the quiet, scholarly pursuit she needs to soothe her burned-out emotions.

But when Jean heads for the Highlands to investigate the 18th century mystery of Bonnie Prince Charlie's lost treasure, she finds herself involved in a contemporary murder case--and not as an innocent bystander, either.

Alasdair Cameron, the police detective in charge, has his own perspective on reality and illusion. The American dot-com millionaire living out his tartan fantasies in a restored mansion is the loosest of loose cannons. His trophy wife isn't necessarily standing by her man. Their housekeeper knows what's going to happen before it does. And their youth piper is a kilted daydream, even though his parents are nightmares.

At Glendessary House, old wounds and old glories aren't distant memories evoked over a glass of single-malt, to the skirl of the pipes. Here, they are up close, personal, and deadly.

It's a good thing Jean has back-up in Edinburgh, including Michael and Rebecca Campbell-Reid from Ashes to Ashes and Dust to Dust, returning in cameo roles. Because if butting heads--not to mention hearts--with Cameron isn't enough to do her in, then a killer is waiting and watching, with a motive for murder not hidden nearly deeply enough in the past.
Data wydania: 2005-01-01
ISBN: 978-1-55742-923-0, 9781557429230
Język: angielski
Wydawnictwo: Wildside Press
Cykl: A Jean Fairbairn/Alasdair Cameron Mystery, tom 1
Stron: 300
dodana przez: saskia9

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Lillian Stewart Carl Lillian Stewart Carl
Urodzona w 1949 roku w USA
Lillian Stewart Carl to amerykańska autorka powieści kryminalnych, fantasy i science-fiction. Carl mieszka w północnym Teksasie. Jest przyjaciółką Lois McMaster Bujold od dzieciństwa; obaj autorzy przypisują Carlowi skłonienie Bujold do pisania. Zos...

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