Former U.S. Senator Quintrell is dead.
His son, New Mexico's governor, is preparing his
run for the highest political office in the land.And dark family secrets are about to explode with the
devastating force of a Southwestern earthquake.
An eccentric Quintrell aunt has invited genealogist Carolina "Carly" May to their Taos compound to compile a record of the illustrious family. But digging into the past is raising troubling questions about a would-be president's private life . . . and the grisly street crime that left his drug-addicted sister dead. As a dark world of twisted passions and depravity slowly opens up before Carly, there is no one whom she dares trust -- perhaps least of all Dan Duran, a dangerous, haunted enigma who's tied to the Quintrells' history. But she will need an ally to survive the terrible mysteries a father carried to the grave -- because following the bloodlines of the powerful can be a bloody business. And some dead secrets can kill.
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New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Lowell has more than eighty titles published to date with over twenty-four million copies of her books in print. She lives in the Sierra Nevada Mountains with her husband, with whom she writes novels under a pseudonym. Her favorite activity is exploring the Western United States to find the landscapes that speak to her soul and inspire her writing.
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. 453 pages. Cover wornReviews n nAnn Maxwell has written over 60 books in multiple genres; as nElizabeth Lowell (Die in Plain S ight), she creates dialogue with nimmediacy and emotional colorat ion that sets her apart from the nromantic suspense pack. Her 10t h outing as Lowell begins with the ntidy murder of The Senator, t he ill and infirm patriarch of a nprominent Taos, N.Mex., clan. C arly May, a genealogist/historical nresearcher, is commissioned t o write a family history by a ndisgruntled family member who hope s she'll dig up dirt. As Carly's nresearch starts in earnest, she meets, among the Senator's many nlegitimate and illegitimate chi ldren, Dan Duran, a former CIA-like noperative who, she finds out (but the reader knows all along), is nthe Senator's illegitimate grandson. Carly gets dire threats, she nand Dan get close, and m ore people die. By combining new techniques nof DNA testing with old-fashioned research and detective work (lots nof appealing New Mexican history comes into play), Carly and Dan nfinally discove r the truth about the family. But readers will care nless about t hat than about their many charming exchanges, which nLowell craft s with sophistication and a sense of play. Quality and nquantity may not be mutually exclusive after all. (July 1) nCopyright 2005 Reed Business Information. n nAs the sun begins to rise over Tao s, NM, the already failing Andrew nJackson Quintrell III is murde red in his bed. Quintrell, also known nas the Senator, is at the center of a controversy that pits his nrelatives against genealog ist and family history specialist nCarolina (Carly) May. The Sena tor's sister-in-law, Winifred Simmons ny Castillo, has hired Carl y to trace the Castillo lineage. It seems nthe Senator was quite the ladies' man (read: lecher), and numerous nillegitimate offspr ing are ferreted out in the process. Mysterious nlocal Dan Duran helps Carly research town newspaper archives, nigniting a romanti c spark among the rolls of microfilm. Lowell n(Moving Target) see ms to have lost her flare for drama and nemotional depth, instead relying on drug smuggling, blackmail, npolitical power-brokering , murder (several), and multigenerational nincest to make up for a barely-there plot and wholly irredeemable ncharacters. The gene alogy angle becomes so tangled that readers nwill need to constru ct their own charts to follow who did what to nwhom-if they even care. Yet, Lowell fans are loyal; they'll nprobably request this. Otherwise, not recommended. [See Prepub nAlert, LJ 2/15/05.]-Bet te-Lee Fox, Library Journal Copyright 2005 nReed Business Informa tion. Seller Inventory # 2207q