Done Gone

by Marcia Talley

Overview

Hannah Ives' neighbour is on the run, but the past is about to catch up with her in this compelling mystery.

Hannah Ives is worried when her friends and long-time neighbours, Peter and Trish Young, are a surprising no-show at her Italian night. The couple seem to have vanished without a trace. Have they made a quick getaway and 'done gone'?

As she struggles to make sense of the Youngs' disappearance, Hannah gets a call from Trish. But when she meets up with her heavily disguised friend, their reunion takes a devastating twist. Keen to help Trish, Hannah's investigations lead her to a series of dark discoveries and secrets involving powerful political figures. With stakes getting higher and her own life on the line, can Hannah survive her journey into Trish's past long enough to find out who wants to silence her, and why?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780727890221
Publisher:	Severn House
Publication date:	04/06/2021
Series:	A Hannah Ives Mystery , #18
Edition description:	Main
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.91(w) x 8.98(h) x (d)

About the Author

Marcia Talley is the Agatha and Anthony award-winning author of seventeen previous crime novels featuring sleuth Hannah Ives. Her short stories appear in more than a dozen collections and have been reprinted in several of The Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories anthologies. She is a past president of Sisters in Crime, Inc. Marcia lives in Annapolis, Maryland, but spends the winter months in a quaint Loyalist cottage in the Bahamas. Previous titles in the popular Hannah Ives series published by Severn House include Footprints to Murder, Mile High Murder and Tangled Roots. www.marciatalley.com

Editorial Reviews

02/01/2021

Talley’s energetic 18th Hannah Ives mystery (after 2019’s Tangled Roots) finds Hannah and her husband preparing for their monthly dinner party at home in Annapolis, Md. When their next-door neighbors, Trish and Paul Young, fail to arrive or call to explain, Hannah is worried. The next day, she goes to their house, where the Youngs are nowhere to be found. Hannah’s concerns grow, until she receives a cryptic call from Trish, who requests they meet in a mall parking lot. There Trish gives Hannah an encrypted flash drive and instructions to deliver it to a New York Times journalist. Before Trish can reveal more, she’s shot in the head. With Trish in intensive care, Hannah decides to investigate. Not every character behaves credibly, and there’s at least one convenient coincidence, but Talley keeps the action humming as Hannah interviews Trish’s relatives and dodges more bullets en route to uncovering a political scandal that could rock the nation. Hannah’s gently amusing observations on eating drippy barbecue in the bathtub and other pleasures provide counterpoint to the mayhem. Readers will wish her a long career. Agent: Vicky Bijur, Vicky Bijur Literary. (Apr.)

Publishers Weekly

Like Hannah's life, the books are full of joy and sadness, of brilliant light and terrifying shadow ... Readers who haven't met Hannah should do so promptly

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Entertaining ... its solution is both surprising and memorable

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2021-01-13
Missing dinner-party guests lead their hostess on a crisscross mission to save a life.

Hannah Ives and her husband, Paul, presiding at a potluck Italian dinner in their Annapolis home, wait in vain for the tiramisu. The couple who promised it—their across-the-way neighbors, Trish and Peter Young—don’t show up and don’t answer their phones. When Hannah lets herself into their house with the key she uses to feed their cat when they’re away, she finds the tiramisu in the refrigerator, the milk on the counter, Trish’s phone in plain sight, but no Trish and Peter. After Peter turns up with an excuse about a business trip, Trish phones Hannah from central New York and asks to meet a few days later in a public place in Annapolis, where she explains that she was born Elizabeth Stefano and she’s connected to a federal case in the Southern District of New York. She gives Hannah a flash drive with instructions about what to do if the case doesn’t come up as scheduled. Before she can explain further, she’s shot in the head from a passing car. Trish barely survives, leaving Hannah to travel to Syracuse, where Trish spent her childhood and where she had an unlikely recent meeting with someone from her past who wants to make sure she has no future.

Talley’s determined sleuth is more than a match for a ruthless adversary and some dubious plot contrivances.

Kirkus Reviews

Talley’s determined sleuth is more than a match for a ruthless adversary - Kirkus Reviews

Energetic … Hannah’s gently amusing observations provide counterpoint to the mayhem. Readers will wish her a long career - Publishers Weekly

From the Publisher

Like Hannah's life, the books are full of joy and sadness, of brilliant light and terrifying shadow ... Readers who haven't met Hannah should do so promptly

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Both fast paced and character focused, this latest Hannah Ives novel is sure to please the author's readership

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Entertaining ... its solution is both surprising and memorable

Booklist on Mile High Murder

Both fast paced and character focused, this latest Hannah Ives novel is sure to please the author's readership

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