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Why should a man at a Surrey police station go ballistic because someone tries to visit Lilly, his elderly grandmother? Detective Inspector Jake Talbot is intrigued, and this little puzzle might serve to distract him from sorrows of a Christmas past. Soon he is entangled with Frankie, an odd young man who claims to have met Lilly in her youth. Talbot dismisses the notion of time travel, but then discovers the Ministry of Defence has been monitoring Frankie since his friend disappeared ten years previously. Forced to work with the MOD, Talbot unearths family secrets and betrayals. The families act ruthlessly to prevent him from discovering the facts, colluding to ruin him. If Frankie is innocent, Talbot won't let him be victimised. An uneasy understanding grows between them as they follow the evidence, for only the truth will allow Frankie to visit Lilly.… (más)
Detective Inspector Jake Talbot has been having a bad year. He's spent most of it investigating a truly horrendous crime. It's finally resolved, but during it, his significant other, Claire, got tired of it and him and moved out, taking not just all her own things, but gifts she'd given him. It's now nearly Christmas, always a bad time of year for him because of a past family tragedy--but worse than ever this year, because of the Lassiter case and Claire's departure.
Not wanting to take his boss's advice and take time off, Jake focuses instead on what seems to be a minor case, easily resolved: A young man unrelated to the family has been attempting to visit Lillian Charteris in her care home, over the objections of her grandchildren, Peter and Melanie Charteris.
Yet the young man, Frankie Hayward, seems quite harmless, and Peter's reaction, in particular, seems out of all proportion and entirely too personal.
And the more questions Jake asks, the stranger things become. Hayward is smart, gentle, and definitely a little odd. The Charteris siblings are strangely unwilling to supply any real answers to what the connection between their family and Hayward may be. When Jake takes the rather elementary step of looking for more information on some of the people most directly involved, he discovers they have sealed files, courtesy of the Ministry of Defense.
He's stumbled onto something far more involved, confusing, and dangerous than he ever expected.
I want to say that I really liked this book, a lot more than I expected to. There are elements of both paranormal and time travel romance involved, and they're important, and they are both things that normally try my patience. Allen has handled them with skill and grace, and they added to the story, rather than being elements I just had to cope with.
Beyond that, the characters are interesting and complex. Several seem to be pretty obvious and straightforward, and prove to be far more than they initially appear. The pacing is very well done, and overall I just didn't want to stop reading. This book just did not want to be put down.
Highly recommended.
I received a free electronic galley of this book from the publisher. ( )
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Frankie stood in the rain. It had started out mild, but a driving wind had kicked up, and now he was freezing cold. He stared at the building, looked up and across the windows, wondering which room she was in. He’d rehearsed what to say a hundred times over, but that had been in his head, in his imagination. The nursing home had been built in the sixties, straight lined, pebble-dashed— no character. In the rain the building looked grim. The idea of going inside was daunting, and for the past hour his courage had failed him. He dug his hands into his pockets. He’d bought new clothes especially for the occasion, a pair of black jeans, a chestnut brown sweater, and some leather shoes, not trainers. He knew she’d like the shoes, polished and smart; but they didn’t look smart anymore. It was silly standing there getting wet with no umbrella and his waterproof left in the car. He was supposed to go straight in, only it wasn’t happening as he’d planned. His nerve had failed him.
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Why should a man at a Surrey police station go ballistic because someone tries to visit Lilly, his elderly grandmother? Detective Inspector Jake Talbot is intrigued, and this little puzzle might serve to distract him from sorrows of a Christmas past. Soon he is entangled with Frankie, an odd young man who claims to have met Lilly in her youth. Talbot dismisses the notion of time travel, but then discovers the Ministry of Defence has been monitoring Frankie since his friend disappeared ten years previously. Forced to work with the MOD, Talbot unearths family secrets and betrayals. The families act ruthlessly to prevent him from discovering the facts, colluding to ruin him. If Frankie is innocent, Talbot won't let him be victimised. An uneasy understanding grows between them as they follow the evidence, for only the truth will allow Frankie to visit Lilly.
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Not wanting to take his boss's advice and take time off, Jake focuses instead on what seems to be a minor case, easily resolved: A young man unrelated to the family has been attempting to visit Lillian Charteris in her care home, over the objections of her grandchildren, Peter and Melanie Charteris.
Yet the young man, Frankie Hayward, seems quite harmless, and Peter's reaction, in particular, seems out of all proportion and entirely too personal.
And the more questions Jake asks, the stranger things become. Hayward is smart, gentle, and definitely a little odd. The Charteris siblings are strangely unwilling to supply any real answers to what the connection between their family and Hayward may be. When Jake takes the rather elementary step of looking for more information on some of the people most directly involved, he discovers they have sealed files, courtesy of the Ministry of Defense.
He's stumbled onto something far more involved, confusing, and dangerous than he ever expected.
I want to say that I really liked this book, a lot more than I expected to. There are elements of both paranormal and time travel romance involved, and they're important, and they are both things that normally try my patience. Allen has handled them with skill and grace, and they added to the story, rather than being elements I just had to cope with.
Beyond that, the characters are interesting and complex. Several seem to be pretty obvious and straightforward, and prove to be far more than they initially appear. The pacing is very well done, and overall I just didn't want to stop reading. This book just did not want to be put down.
Highly recommended.
I received a free electronic galley of this book from the publisher. (