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Spectra
December 2005
Featuring: Laura Lensky; Ian Kennedy
384 pages
ISBN: 055358734X
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Contemporary | Fantasy | Fiction
From award-winning author Lisa Tuttle comes a riveting novel that combines the contemporary story of one manβs search for a missing young woman with historyβs most enduring legends of the disappeared. Gripping and unforgettable, here is a spellbinding mix of the mysteries that inhabit our everyday livesβand 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 peopleβand a knack for finding them. Now heβs 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 solveβand one he knows he must. Laura Lenskyβs stunning twenty-one-year-old daughter, Peri, has been missing for over two yearsβa lifetime, under the circumstances. But when Ian learns the details of her disappearance, he discovers eerie parallels to an obscure Celtic mythβand to the haunting case that launched his career, an early success heβs 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 caseβand 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 enigmasβand their answersβare startlingly alive.
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