Puissant dans une vie riche d'expériences éclectiques, cette auteure élabore des mystères captivants qui explorent les complexités de l'identité et de l'héritage. Son parcours, une tapisserie tissée d'éléments de journalisme, d'aspirations artistiques et d'une remarquable série de métiers non conventionnels, confère à ses récits une authenticité unique. Ce lien profond avec son propre passé varié alimente son exploration de personnages aux prises avec des origines inconnues, reflétant son propre voyage de découverte de secrets ancestraux. Son approche distinctive mêle magistralement le frisson de la détection à une quête personnelle profonde des racines, rendant ses histoires à la fois pleines de suspense et d'âme.
The investigation into a woman's suspicious death leads private eye Lena Jones to uncover links between the crime and the unresolved mysteries surrounding her family's past, including her brother's and father's murders and her mother's long-ago disappearance. As she delves deeper into the case, connections to local "new thought" groups emerge, intertwining her personal history with the present investigation.
Four years after being exiled to Paris for disgracing the family name, Alabama debutante Zoe Barlow is still reeling from the horror of her ejection. Still, she's managed to create a new family among fellow expats and artists, including Hadley and Ernest Hemingway. When a valise containing all of Ernest's writings goes missing, Zoe volunteers to help Hadley track it down. Unfortunately, the valise leads to two murders-the train porter who stole the bag, and a young woman rumored to be Anastasia Romanov-shot to death on the edge of a small village. With much more at stake than the missing manuscripts, Zoe risks everything she holds dear to find out who among her adopted family is a murderer
As she approached her one hundredth birthday, Betty Webb was finally ready to tell in full the story of her extraordinary life, not least the years she spent as the only female codebreaker during the Second World War to work at both Bletchley Park and the Pentagon.
One woman's trash is another woman's--lost Chagall masterpiece?!? Expat Zoe Barlow has settled well into her artist's life among the Lost Generation in 1920s Paris. When a too-tipsy guest at her weekly poker game breaks Zoe's favorite clock, she's off to a Montparnasse flea market to bargain with the vendor Laurette for a replacement. What Zoe didn't bargain for was the lost Chagall painting that's been used like a rag to wrap her purchases! Eager to learn whether Laurette has more Chagalls lying about like trash, Zoe sets off to track her down at her storage shed. With no Laurette in sight, Zoe snoops around and indeed finds several additional Chagalls--and then she finds Laurette herself, dead beneath a scrap heap, her beautiful face bashed in. With Paris hosting the 1924 Summer Olympics, the police are far too busy with tourist-related crimes to devote much time to the clock seller's murder. After returning the paintings to a grateful Marc Chagall, Zoe begins her own investigation. Did the stolen paintings play any part in the brutal killing? Or was it a crime of passion? Zoe soon discovers that there were many people who had reason to resent the lovely Laurette. But who hated the girl enough to stop her clock permanently? When Zoe discovers a second murder victim, the pressure is on to find the killer before time--and luck--run out.