The Safe Room (Five Star First Edition Mystery Series) - Hardcover

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786230126 ISBN 13: 9780786230129

Verlag: Five Star (ME), 2002

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Narrator Lee Harden toils as a research assistant for an inner-city drug center in Boston. Unofficially, she counsels recovering black addict Trina and helps her own grandmother (with whom she lives) ready her historic house for acceptance into a national park comprising Underground Railroad stations. Lee complains of unnerving nightmares about the house's root cellar and even sleepwalks while the house undergoes renovations. Her narrative shares space with journal entries an ancestor made in 1858, detailing her unacceptable relationship with an escaped slave. Increasingly eerie connections with the past, a missing bracelet, and murder make this a recommended choice for readers of psychological suspense. Shapiro is the author of such titles as Blind Spot and See No Evil.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

The New England suspense author's (Blind Spot; See No Evil; etc.) first venture into hardcover fiction blends several themes and genres into a m‚lange that may have a difficult time finding an audience. Shapiro gives the reader a bit of mystery, a bit of romance, a ghost story and social history both contemporary and pre-Civil War. The diary of Sarah Harden provides insight into the courage, convictions and trials endured by Underground Railroad sympathizers in Lexington, Mass., while a parallel story marks the progress (or lack of) that haunts Lee Seymour, a descendant of the Hardens, a proud abolitionist family. As Sarah's diary reveals details of the tragic love that developed between her and a runaway slave, Silas Person, in the late 1850s, Lee is busy helping her grandmother oversee the paperwork, repairs and reconstruction necessary to have Harden House made part of the Harriet Tubman Network to Freedom National Park. Assisting Lee is Trina Collins, a recovering addict from the Cambridge rehabilitation center where Lee works, SafeHaven. Activities both ghostly and human affect the progress being made on Harden House, and the violent past hidden for more than 100 years seems to have given birth to a new cycle of violence. An effective writer, Shapiro handles the strains of her story quite well, though her reliance on the paranormal aspects of her plot may not appeal to mystery purists. Agent, Nancy Yost.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Five Star (ME)
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0786230126
• ISBN 13: 9780786230129
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 302
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