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Renowned sculptor Roy Valois receives the worst news since learning of his adored wife Delia's death in South America fifteen years ago. His doctor tells him he's dying—and a morbid curiosity about how he'll be remembered inspires Roy, with the help of a local computer geek, to hack into a newspaper's system to read his prewritten obituary. But the death notice includes a small discrepancy about his late wife—and by calling the mistake to the attention of the surprised obit writer, Roy has inadvertently sealed an innocent man's doom.
Suddenly Roy has a mission: to uncover the truth about the woman he can't stop loving—secrets guarded by powerful forces who believe murder is an acceptable price for keeping them buried. With his disease-ravaged body's final betrayal rapidly approaching, Roy must somehow stay alive long enough to find the answers: Who was Delia? How did she die? Why did she die?
Did she die?
Peter Abrahams
Peter Abrahams is the author of thirty-three novels. Among his acclaimed crime thrillers are Hard Rain, Pressure Drop, The Fury of Rachel Monette, Tongues of Fire, Edgar Award finalist Lights Out, Oblivion, End of Story, and The Fan, which was adapted into a film starring Robert De Niro and Wesley Snipes. Under the name Spencer Quinn, he writes the New York Times–bestselling Chet and Bernie Mystery series, which debuted with Dog on It. Abrahams’s young adult novel Reality Check won the Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery in 2010, and Down the Rabbit Hole, the first novel in his Echo Falls Mystery series, won the Agatha Award for Best Children’s/Young Adult Novel in 2005. Abrahams lives on Cape Cod with his family. Visit his website: www.spencequinn.com
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