This one is for those who relish intricate mind games.
ALL Amanda Cross books ate da bomb!
Kate Fansler is an intelligent delight
This is a little gem of a mystery that really has one foot in the literary novel genre. It is more intricate and dense than the typical whodunit as it tells a fascinating story about families, women, wealth, secrecy, a novelist, fame, and a literary-minded sleuth. If those things are your cup of tea, you will find it worth five stars, as I did.
When Kate Fansler is offered the exciting prospect of writing a biography of Gabrielle Foxx, the obscure and enigmatic wife of a great modernist author, she accepts. But what she discovers when she meets three charming women connected with the Foxx family since childhood is a veil of secrecy that hides a fantastic pattern of events, a shocking secret that fifty years have done nothing to defuse, and a strange truth that she can never reveal....
