Hotel on Shadow Lake
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Publisher Description
"A story of love, tragedy and intrigue that vividly illustrates the unyielding grip that the past holds in shaping the future...and the enduring power of love." Lee Goldberg "A fascinating tale of what it felt like to be a woman under the Third Reich and of one family's long hidden secrets." Elisabeth Gifford "What a surprising debut! Tully offers the reader an epic story and emotional intimacy, with rich characters plunged into a mysterious thriller that spans continents and generations. I couldn't put it down." Uli Edel"An engaging and beautifully told story of love and the strength of family ties which will captivate and entrance all readers." Claire Allan When Maya was a girl, her grandmother was everything to her: teller of magical fairy tales, surrogate mother, best friend. Then her grandmother disappeared without a trace, leaving Maya with only questions to fill the void. Twenty-seven years later, her grandmother's body is found in a place she had no connection to. Desperate for answers, Maya begins to unravel secrets that go back decades, from 1910s New York to 1930s Germany and beyond. But when she begins to find herself spinning her own lies in order to uncover what happened, she must decide whether her life, and a chance at love, are worth risking for the truth.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Tully's first novel, an intricate read-it-in-one-sitting mystery cum family saga, spans a hundred years, two continents, and two world wars. In Munich on German Unity Day in 1990, septuagenarian Martha Wiesberg receives a letter that was trapped behind the Berlin Wall for more than four decades. The words of her long-dead twin brother triggers events that lead to her sudden disappearance. In 2017, Maya Wiesberg, a reclusive Munich independent bookstore owner, learns that the body of her beloved grandmother, Martha, has been unearthed in an upstate New York forest preserve. Maya drops everything to investigate the mysterious death. She reserves a room at a resort hotel that lies amid the splendor of that New York forest, where Martha undoubtedly spent her last days. Told from the point of view of three central characters and including its own fairy tale this is a story about murder, greed, love (won then lost), and, above all, intrigue. Readers will be eager to see what Tully, who has worked in film and TV for many years, comes up with next.
