Poirot sets himself a challenge before he retires – to solve 12 cases which correspond with the labours of his classical Greek
...The Labyrinth is filled with beautiful portraits of mighty creatures from the world of myths & legends, just waiting to be brought
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A cross between ' The Memory-Keeper's Daughter' & ' The Sixth Sense', this mesmerising first novel takes the reader into a world of secrets, confused identities, lies & half-truths, culminating in an extraordinary twist. Would knowing the future be a gift or a burden? Or even a curse!? The Whitney women of Salem, Massachusetts are renowned for reading the future in the patterns of lace. But the future doesn't always bring good news -- as Towner Whitney knows all too well. When she was just fifteen her gift sent her whole world crashing to pieces. She predicted -- & then witnessed
- something so horrific that she vowed never to read lace again, & fled her home & family for good. Salem is a place of ghosts for Towner, & she swore she would never return. Yet family is a powerful tie. So it is that fifteen years later, Towner finds herself back in Salem. Her beloved Great Aunt Eva has suddenly disappeared -- & when you've lived a life like Eva's, that could mean real trouble. But Salem is wreathed in sickly shadows & whispered half-memories. It's fast becoming clear that the ghosts of Towner's fractured past have not been brought fully into the light. & with them comes the threat of terrifying new disaster. A literary page-turner with depth, narrative power & a story that novels like ' The Thirteenth Tale' can only dream of, ' The Lace Reader' is a bewitching & tightly plotted read.