Lost and Found in Prague
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4.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
The author of The Woman Who Heard Color transports readers to a dreary Good Friday in Prague in an "intriguing thriller"* as the mysterious death of a nun sets off a tangled chain of events that inexorably draws three strangers together—and forever changes their lives…
Just after the fall of the Berlin Wall, aspiring journalist Dana Pierson joined the hordes of young people traveling to Eastern Europe to be a part of history. There, she and her best friend were swept up in the excitement of the Velvet Revolution. Twenty years later, Dana returns to the city of her youthful rebellion to reconnect with her old confidant, who never left the city. But the visit that was reserved for healing intimacies and giddy reminiscences is marred by a strange death in one of Prague’s most famous Catholic churches—and an even more peculiar mystery surrounding it…
In a city where the past is never far from the present, Dana must work with a conflicted Italian priest and a world-weary Czech investigator to unlock dark secrets hidden in Prague’s twisted streets. But the key to solving the puzzle may lie in memories of Dana’s long-ago visit, even as she is forced to face the reality of a more recent loss…
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this intriguing thriller from Jones (The Woman Who Heard Color), Boston reporter Dana Pierson travels to Prague, which she visited 20 years earlier at the height of the Velvet Revolution, to visit her cousin Caroline, who has taken the veil. On the leg of her flight that leaves Rome, Diana's seatmate, Fr. Giovanni Borelli, turns out to be familiar with her work probing scandals in the Catholic Church having served the Vatican as a devil's advocate arguing against the canonization of saints. Their arrival in Prague coincides with a police investigation into the execution murder of Sen. Jarsolav Zajic, shot early one morning outside the old town hall. Zajic led a commission to identify those who had spied for the secret police under the Communists. Meanwhile, an elderly nun in Caroline's convent has died under mysterious circumstances. The ending doesn't match the fascinating opening sections, but Jones has a real gift for creating well-limned characters and describing the streets and buildings of Prague.