By Kate Morton
From the New York occasions and the world over bestselling writer of The far-off Hours, The Forgotten backyard, and The condominium at Riverton, a spellbinding new novel jam-packed with secret, thievery, homicide, and enduring love.
During a summer season celebration on the kin farm within the English nation-state, sixteen-year-old Laurel Nicolson has escaped to her youth tree residence and is fortunately dreaming of the long run. She spies a stranger bobbing up the lengthy highway to the farm and watches as her mom speaks to him. sooner than the afternoon is over, Laurel will witness a surprising crime. a criminal offense that demanding situations every little thing she understands approximately her relatives and particularly her mom, Dorothy—her vivacious, loving, approximately excellent mom.
Now, fifty years later, Laurel is a winning and well-regarded actress residing in London. The kin is accumulating at Greenacres farm for Dorothy’s 90th birthday. figuring out that this can be her final likelihood, Laurel searches for solutions to the questions that also hang-out her from that long-ago day, solutions that could in simple terms be present in Dorothy’s prior.
Dorothy’s tale takes the reader from pre–WWII England in the course of the blitz, to the ’60s and past. it's the mystery historical past of 3 strangers from greatly assorted worlds—Dorothy, Vivien, and Jimmy—who meet unintentionally in wartime London and whose lives are perpetually entwined. The mystery Keeper explores longings and desires and the unforeseen results they typically carry. it truly is an unforgettable tale of enthusiasts and pals, deception and keenness that's told—in Morton’s signature style—against a backdrop of occasions that modified the realm.
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Life, he decided, was all about trade-offs. They’d been in the hills for two days, all of it on the move, sleeping two to three hours a night. He was part of the special operations team of the 75th Ranger Regiment, based permanently at Fort Benning, Georgia, where there was a nice NCO club with good beer on tap. By closing his eyes and concentrating, he imagined he could still taste the cold beer, but that moment passed quickly. He had to focus here, every second. They were fifteen thousand feet above sea level, in the Hindu Kush mountains, in that gray zone that was both Afghanistan and Pakistan, and neither—at least to the locals.
Hadn’t moved at all. Driscoll brought his M4 up, settled the sights on the nape of the man’s neck, and then tightened his finger on the trigger. Easy, easy … squeeze … Pop. Not much of a sound. Hard to hear at all at a range of more than fifty meters, but the bullet flew true and transited the target’s head, leaving a puff of green vapor behind, and he went off to see Allah, or whatever god he acknowledged; at twenty-odd years old, growing and eating and learning, and probably fighting, came to an abrupt and unwarned end.
Wrong gomer was his immediate thought, followed by Shit. The face was the embodiment of confusion and shock. He was shaking his head, trying to get his brain initialized, but young and tough as he was, he wasn’t fast enough for the necessities of the moment. Near the back wall of the chamber Driscoll saw movement, a shadow hunched over, sliding along the rock wall. Not moving toward them but somewhere else. Driscoll holstered his pistol, turned to Tait, then pointed at the gomer on the ground—Cuff ’em—then flipped on his NV and dropped the M4’s sights over the moving shadow.