Synopses & Reviews
At the age of four Agnes Hahn went to live with her great aunts Gert and Ella. Now Gert is deceased and Ella is in a care home in the advanced stages of Alzheimers. Her life is mundane, her work at the animal shelter routine. And then she is arrested for a string of unimaginably heinous murders. Reporter Jason Powers is covering the murders, but he has more than newspaper copy in mind; this case has bestseller potential. He soon uncovers a tangle of Hahn family secrets and one both shocks and intrigues himAgnes has a twin. Just when Powers is breaking through Ellas dementia to put together the puzzle behind the carnage, Ella is murdered by another of the family secrets, Gert and Ellas brother Eddie. Then Eddie is murdered with clear fingerprint evidence implicating Agnes. When Powers unearths the final family secret he also answers a nagging question: Why did the aunts take only Agnes thirty years ago?
Review
"It's one of those books . . . just one more chapter before you turn the light out (for the eighth time that night)." Eternal Night.co.uk
Synopsis
At the age of four, Agnes Hahn went to live with her great aunts Gert and Ella. Gert is now deceased, and Ella is in a nursing home in the advanced stages of Alzheimer's. Agness life is mundane; her work at the animal shelter routine—until she is arrested for a string of unimaginably heinous murders. Driven by the opportunity to write a bestseller, reporter Jason Powers covers the killings and soon uncovers a tangle of Hahn family secrets including one about Agness mysterious twin sister. Just when Powers is breaking through Ella's dementia to put together the puzzle behind the carnage, Ella is murdered. Now motivated by the family's unanswered questions, Powers strives to discover the truth about Agnes, her aunts, and the mysteries that surround them.
About the Author
Richard Satterlie is a biology professor and the author of "Phoenix "and "Something Bad. "He lives in Wilmington, North Carolina.