The Tightrope Walker: A Novel

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"A superb book." THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE When quiet, shy Amelia Jones reads a desperate message that has fallen out of a barrel organ in the antique shop she just bought, she can't forget the words, "They're going to kill me soon..." Armed only with the woman's first name and the note written years before, Amelia begins a journey into the past, a search that takes her from the protective cocoon she's wrapped herself in to a precarious world where nothing is the way it seems, where fear is second nature, and dark secrets just might uncover murder--her own....

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Dorothy Gilman(1923-2012) was the author of 14 Mrs. Pollifax novels, includingThe Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax,the series debut;Mrs. Pollifax Pursued;Mrs. Pollifax and the Lion Killer;Mrs. Pollifax, Innocent Tourist;andMrs. Pollifax Unveiled. She was also the author of many other novels, among themThale's Folly.