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Spectra
December 2005
Featuring: Laura Lensky; Ian Kennedy
384 pages
ISBN: 055358734X
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Fiction | Fantasy | Contemporary
From award-winning author Lisa Tuttle comes
a riveting novel that combines the contemporary story of
one man’s search for a missing young woman with history’s
most enduring legends of the disappeared. Gripping and
unforgettable, here is a spellbinding mix of the mysteries
that inhabit our everyday lives–and a mind-bending
exploration of what happens when someone vanishes without
a trace. Ever since his father disappeared when he was nine years
old, Ian Kennedy has had a penchant for stories about
missing people–and a knack for finding them. Now he’s a
private investigator with an impressive track record. But
when a woman enters his London office and asks him to find
her lost daughter, Ian faces a case he fears he cannot
solve–and one he knows he must. Laura Lensky’s stunning twenty-one-year-old daughter,
Peri, has been missing for over two years–a lifetime,
under the circumstances. But when Ian learns the details
of her disappearance, he discovers eerie parallels to an
obscure Celtic myth–and to the haunting case that launched
his career, an early success he’s never fully been able to
explain. Though Ian suspects Peri may have chosen to
vanish, his curiosity leads him to take on the search.
Soon he finds himself drawing not only from the mysteries
that have preoccupied his adulthood, but from the fables
and folklore that pervaded his youth. What follows is a
journey that takes Ian and those who care for Peri into
the Highlands of Scotland, as the unknowns of the past and
present merge in the case–and in their lives.
Rich in pathos and steeped in secrets, The
Mysteries opens a thought-provoking door from one
world into the heart of another, where some of our most
perplexing enigmas–and their answers–are startlingly alive.
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