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Irene Kelly #9
Pocket Star
September 2006
On Sale: August 29, 2006
672 pages
ISBN: 0743444558
EAN: 9780743444552
Mass Market Paperback (reprint)
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Mystery Woman Sleuth
The year is 1958. O'Connor, a young reporter with the Las
Piernas News Express, is desperate to discover who has
perpetrated a savage attack on his mentor, Jack Corrigan.
In and out of consciousness, Corrigan claims to have
witnessed the burial of a bloodstained car on a farm, but
his reputation as a heavy drinker calls his strange story
into question. In a seemingly unrelated mystery, a yacht
bearing four members of the wealthy Ducane family
disappears during a storm off the coast. An investigation
finds that the Ducane home has been broken into; a
nursemaid has been killed; and Max, the infant heir, has
gone missing. Corrigan recovers his health, but despite a
police investigation and his own tireless inquiries, the
mysteries of the buried car and the whereabouts of Maxwell
Ducane haunt him until his death.
Twenty years after that fateful night, in her first days
as a novice reporter working for managing editor O'Connor,
Irene Kelly covers the groundbreaking ceremony for a
shopping center — which unexpectedly yields the unearthing
of a buried car. In the trunk are human remains. Are those
of the infant heir among them? If so, who is the young man
who has recently changed his name to Max Ducane? Again the
trail goes maddeningly, perhaps suspiciously, cold. Until today. Irene, now married to homicide detective
Frank Harriman, is a veteran reporter facing the impending
closing of the Las Piernas News Express. With circulation
down and young reporters fresh out of journalism school
replacing longtime staffers, Irene can't help but wish for
the good old days when she worked with O'Connor. So when
the baffling kidnap-burial case resurfaces,
Irene'stenacious love for her mentor and journalistic
integrity far outweigh any fears or trepidation.
Determined to make a final splash for her beloved paper
and solve the mystery that plagued O'Connor until his
death, Irene pursues a story that reunites her with her
past and may end her career — and her life.
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