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The new Hannah Ives mystery - Hannah is returning from a charity luncheon in Washington, DC, when her train is involved in a horrific crash. Although her arm is broken, she remains at the side of her critically injured seatmate until help arrives – but when she is later discharged from hospital, she finds herself in possession of the man’s distinctive bag, and her efforts to return it soon set in motion a chain of events that put her life in grave danger.

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Hannah Ives is returning home after a charity luncheon when her train crashes. Luckily, she escapes with minor bumps and bruises, but the man sitting next to her is critically injured, and Hannah does her best to comfort him. When she's released from the hospital, she's surprised to see, included in the personal items returned to her, the shopping bag the injured man was carrying. Hannah has no clue who he is or whether he survived, but she's determined to return the bag, especially after she opens it and finds a bundle of love letters charting the course of a decades-long affair between "Lilith" and "Zan." Hannah, intrigued by the letters, vows to learn more about the lovers. Her innocent investigation soon turns terrifying when Hannah's home is broken into, and someone seems to be stalking her, all of which serves only to make the secret behind the letters more compelling. A keep-'em-guessing plot, plenty of humor (despite the danger), and a whimsical, charming heroine make this one appealing on multiple levels.
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A cache of love letters lead to murder.

When the D.C. Metro train she's riding in crashes, Hannah Ives (All Things Undying,2010, etc.) winds up with a broken arm and a Garfinkel's shopping bag that belonged to the young man who had been sitting next to her. Feeling like a voyeur when she dips into the bag to see if she can identify the owner and return it, Hannah is soon immersed in a decades-old romance. Fifty-seven love letters and photographs document a 10-year affair between Lilith Chaloux and her married lover Zan. With gentle assists from her husband, her sister, her sister-in-law's husband (a Chesapeake County police lieutenant), internet searches and a snooping instinct second only to Miss Marple's, Hannah not only tracks down the reclusive Lilith, an artist and major-league hoarder, but stakes out theLynx Newsheadquarters to confront the man formerly known as Zan. In response, her home is burglarized, she's confronted by a seedy lawyer working for the young man who sat next to her on the train—now laid up for serious rehabbing in a D.C. hospital—and she meets Zan's wife, who tells her off in no uncertain terms. Meanwhile, a staffer at Lynx, a former college friend of Hannah's daughter Emily, is murdered, and the seedy lawyer heads for Lilith's cottage, which winds up ablaze, incinerating those 57 love letters and almost costing Lilith and Hannah their lives.

If you've a taste for love denied, love reunited and coincidences piled on coincidences, you'll have plenty to swoon over here.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780727880413
  • Publisher: Severn House Publishers
  • Publication date: 8/1/2011
  • Pages: 224
  • Sales rank: 357,388
  • Series: Hannah Ives Mysteries Series
  • Product dimensions: 5.60 (w) x 8.60 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Meet the Author

Marcia Talley is the author of five previous books featuring Hannah Ives. A winner of the Malice Domestic writing grant and an Agatha Award nominee for Best First Novel, Ms. Talley won an Agatha and an Anthony Award for her short story "Too Many Cooks" and an Agatha Award for her short story "Driven to Distraction." She is the editor of two mystery collaborations, and her short stories have been published in numerous magazines and anthologies. She lives with her husband in Annapolis, Maryland.

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  • Posted June 25, 2011

    An absorbing mystery - couldn't put it down - the best yet

    Hannah Ives returning home to Annapolis on the metro gets into conversation with a guy clutching a Garfinkel bag - Hannah muses that they went out of business twenty years ago. The guy who introduces himself as Skip complains about the hot weather. When the train crashes most of the passengers with Hannah in the front carriage are killed but Hannah survives with just a broken arm, and sits with Skip who is trapped and obviously injured until paramedics arrive. In the time that they wait Skip confesses to killing someone, but Hannah is too concerned with keeping him conscious to take on board just what he is saying. When she is discharged from hospital she finds in the sack from the hospital containing her clothes and other effects, the Garfinkel bag. Her enquires at the hospital for someone called Skip meet with a blank. In an effort to trace him Hannah opens his bag and finds a number of letters. The fascination of uncovering someone's life from letters reminded me of 'Smallbone Deceased' by Michael Gilbert when the background to a mystery was solved from the contents of the accumulated documents held by the solicitors over a period of years. To say that this is a fascinating mystery is an understatement, I was riveted. Couldn't even put it down to make a sandwich. I have long been a fan of Marcia Talley's books and have read them all, and can say that this is the best. Mystery apart my favourite sentence in the book is 'No scientific instrument yet invented is sensitive enough to measure how little I care about football'. - way to go girl! ----- Lizzie Hayes

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