This is one of the few books I've read recently that deserves 5 stars! Wonderful characters, great story and the tension increases ever so gradually! It's a little over 500 pages, but I finished it in 3 days.
After the death of her step-father Nicola, a middle-aged, divorced schoolteacher, receives a 40-year old trunk in the mail with lots of papers in Russian, plus a few rather nice trinkets, one of them a genuine, lost imperial Faberge egg. After handing over everything to an auction house so the papers can be translated and the history of the "trinkets" researched, some fairly alarming things start happening to Nicola - and to the researcher who studies the provenance of the jewels and translates the papers. Luckily, he is an ex-CIA operative who soon realizes that they are both in grave danger. Apparently, someone does not want made public what was found in the trunk.
After the death of her step-father Nicola, a middle-aged, divorced schoolteacher, receives a 40-year old trunk in the mail with lots of papers in Russian, plus a few rather nice trinkets, one of them a genuine, lost imperial Faberge egg. After handing over everything to an auction house so the papers can be translated and the history of the "trinkets" researched, some fairly alarming things start happening to Nicola - and to the researcher who studies the provenance of the jewels and translates the papers. Luckily, he is an ex-CIA operative who soon realizes that they are both in grave danger. Apparently, someone does not want made public what was found in the trunk.
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