The Paramours Daughter Wendy Hornsby Hornsby Wendy by Wendy Hornsby [hornsby, Wendy] 9781564747389, 9781564744968, 1564747387, 1564744965 instant download after payment.

Just a few hours before she is murdered, a foreign stranger claims she is a close relative of investigative filmmaker Maggie MacGowen. It is a truism that “it’s a wise child who knows its father." The same can apply to a mother, since we must believe and take for granted as true what our family tells us about our own early years. But what if you “remember" places you’ve never been, speak a language you’ve never been taught? What if your nearest and dearest are all involved in a conspiracy to cover up your true origins? In The Paramour’s Daughter, Maggie MacGowen is thrown into this parallel universe, trying to remember “the ghosts of comfort, fear, or love" from her earliest years. She must question everything she’s ever known about herself and her life-and deal with a large cast of previously unknown blood relatives, some of whom may not have affectionate feelings for the little girl who vanished so long ago. Especially when large sums of euros are involved.... “Edgar-winner Hornsby's enthralling seventh Maggie MacGowen mystery  takes the documentary filmmaker to France. . . . Readers will almost be able to taste the food and drink the author so vividly describes." -Publishers Weekly (7/19/10) **

Edgar-winner Hornsby's enthralling seventh Maggie MacGowen mystery (after 2009's In the Guise of Mercy) takes the documentary filmmaker to France. Late one night in the parking lot of a Malibu, Calif., supermarket, an erratic old woman with "a pretty little accent" accosts Maggie, claiming that Maggie is her daughter, Marguerite. Later that same night, the woman turns up dead from a hit-and-run. During a visit to her mother in Berkeley, Maggie learns a 43-year-old secret from her mother, who tearfully confesses that "a beautiful young French scientist named Isabelle" had a baby, Marguerite, whom Isabelle gave up to Maggie's parents. In France, Maggie becomes the center of an inheritance controversy involving her birth mother's family, including cousins, an uncle, and a half-brother, each of whom has hidden motives. Murder follows a funeral at the family's palatial Normandy estate. Readers will almost be able to taste the food and drink the author so vividly describes.
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"... gripped me and didn't let go ... she nails France with savoir faire and perfect detail ... Tough and idealistic, Maggie is a heroine we want in our corner.” -- Cara Black, Murder in the Palais Royal

"The joy of Hornsby's books has always been as much her characters as the story itself. The Paramour's Daughter delivers her characteristic subtlety and truth.” -- S.J. Rozan, The Shanghai Moon