Secrets from a Stranger: Fame and Beauty are a deadly combination - Softcover

Newton-Dunn, David N

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798985120110

Publisher: David N.O. Newton-Dunn, 2021

Synopsis

The arrival of a stranger with too many questions shatters the manicured idyll of Juliette, famous for her beauty and winning a Gold medal at seventeen in the 1936 Olympic Games.

Set in Provence in the 1960s, we visit pre-war Berlin, Paris during the Nazi occupation of the 1940s, and London, before murders are unleashed and a desperate, pulse-racing manhunt ensues.

Nestling between Aix-en-Provence and the timeless charm of Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, lies an ancient village tucked among vineyards and olive groves flecked with poppies, and sheltered from the Mistral wind by cypress trees and parasol pines.

And it’s there that Juliette is living peacefully in 1967 with her twenty-nine year-old daughter Camille in an old French chateau.

We follow Camille, disenchanted with her bourgeois life after several years in London, as her life changes forever when the unusual, enigmatic outsider, offbeat and long-haired, arrives to replace the local garage owner who has died under suspicious circumstances.

Alternatively tormented and comforted by the Mistral wind, Camille stumbles over secrets and falls in love—and makes terrible decisions, which endanger her life and her mother’s. She never loses hope, and tries untiringly to get her life together, only for a trap to close around her and greed to lead to murder.

Intermingled with echoes of the last world war, the French Resistance, the plight of the Jews and traitorous collaborators, Secrets from a Stranger is deeply psychological and relentlessly suspenseful.

Full of twists of high emotion that will keep readers who like Europe and historical fiction on the edge of their seats. A page-turner.

Edition details

• Publisher: David N.O. Newton-Dunn
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798985120110
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 270