Simon & Schuster
April 2012
On Sale: April 3, 2012
Featuring: Jonathan Lyons; Mariah
304 pages ISBN: 1451668864 EAN: 9781451668865 Kindle: B005IGYXFE Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
In The Lost Years, Mary Higgins Clark, America’s Queen of
Suspense, has written her most astonishing novel to date. At
its center is a discovery that, if authenticated, may be the
most revered document in human history—“the holiest of the
holy”—and certainly the most coveted and valuable object in
the world.
Biblical scholar Jonathan Lyons believes he has found the
rarest of parchments—a letter that may have been written by
Jesus Christ. Stolen from the Vatican Library in the 1500s,
the letter was assumed to be lost forever.
Now, under the promise of secrecy, Jonathan is able to
confirm his findings with several other experts. But he also
confides in a family friend his suspicion that someone he
once trusted wants to sell the parchment and cash in.
Within days Jonathan is found shot to death in his study. At
the same time, his wife, Kathleen, who is suffering from
Alzheimer’s, is found hiding in the study closet, incoherent
and clutching the murder weapon. Even in her dementia,
Kathleen has known that her husband was carrying on a
long-term affair. Did Kathleen kill her husband in a jealous
rage, as the police contend? Or is his death tied to the
larger question: Who has possession of the priceless
parchment that has now gone missing?
It is up to their daughter, twenty-eight-year-old Mariah, to
clear her mother of murder charges and unravel the real
mystery behind her father’s death. Mary Higgins Clark’s The
Lost Years is at once a breathless murder mystery and a hunt
for what may be the most precious religious and
archaeological treasure of all time.
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