The Shadow of Memory

(Hardback, Large Print Edition)

Available Formats

Publishing Details

Classifications

Physical Properties

Description

n Connie Berrys fourth Kate Hamilton mystery, American antiques dealer Kate Hamilton uncovers a dark secret buried in Victorian England.

As Kate Hamilton plans her upcoming wedding to Detective Inspector Tom Mallory, she is also assisting her colleague Ivor Tweedy with a project at the Netherfield Sanatorium, which is being converted into luxury townhouses. Kate and Ivor must appraise a fifteenth-century paintingand verify that its provenance is the Dutch master Jan Van Eyck. But when retired criminal inspector Will Parker is found dead, Kate learns that the halls of the sanatorium housed much more than priceless art.

Kate is surprised to learn that Will had been the first boyfriend of her friend Vivian Bunn, who hasnt seen him in fifty-eight years. At a seaside holiday camp over sixty years ago, Will, Vivian, and three other teens broke into an abandoned house where a doctor and his wife had died under bizarre circumstances two years earlier. Now, when a second member of the childhood gang dies unexpectedlyand then a thirdit becomes clear that the teens had discovered more in the house than they had realized.

Reviews

Intriguing . . . New and faithful fans alike will appreciate the tying together of present and past, as well as the poignancy in the long effects of unfortunate choices.

Publishers Weekly

A seamlessly plotted mystery for fans of English puzzles.

Library Journal, starred review

Deftly crafted, inherently compelling, a real page turner of a read from cover to cover.

Midwest Book Review

Author Bio

Connie Berry is the author of the Edgar Award-nominated Kate Hamilton Mysteries, set in the UK and featuring an American antiques dealer with a gift for solving crimes.