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A carregar... Listen for the Whisperer (1971)por Phyllis A. Whitney
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Leigh Hollins grew up with a loving father and stepmother, but she's closed off inside. Leigh burns with resentment because her biological mother, movie star Laura Worth, gave her to her father, writer Victor Hollins, instead of marrying him and being a mother to her. Victor is dead and wants Leigh to meet her mother. Laura Worth left Hollywood over the scandal of the unsolved murder of Cass Alroy, director of Laura's last picture, The Whisperer, an adaptation of a Victor Hollins novel. Laura has returned to her mother's home town of Bergen, Norway. Victor had a friend who lives there, Gunner Thoresen. Gunner is a friend of Laura's and will help arrange a meeting. Leigh is writing a book about actresses and wants to do a chapter on Laura, whose work she admires. Leigh also wants to tell Laura off, a goal Gunner does not approve. Laura was cleared as a suspect in that unsolved murder, but someone is waging a psychological war against her. Laura trusts Leigh as an honest enemy. It's not long before Leigh finds her own nerves being stretched by the whisperer. The descriptions of Bergen are good, although I was saddened to read that the 1150 A.D. wooden Fantoft Stave Church in Bergen, which plays an important role in this mystery, burned down in 1992. A replica has been built, but that's not the same. This isn't my favorite Whitney, but it's still good. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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Leigh Hollins was determined to find her mother--the famous Hollywood actress Laura Worth. She found her all right, but it was not a happy reunion. For Laura was being haunted by the murderer who had killed the director of one of her movies twenty years earlier. Laura was being stalked, harrassed, and frightened near to death. And because Leigh was her daughter, someone would try to kill her too.... "From the Paperback edition. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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FROM AMAZON: Leigh Hollins had no choice but to honor her father’s dying wish: that she find her estranged mother, now living in seclusion in Norway, and reconcile with her. Leigh’s mother, Laura Worth, was once one of the most dynamic movie stars in the world, her films eclipsed only by her real life, which was filled with intrigue, scandal, and romantic melodrama. Then, after the mysterious death of the director on her final film, Laura slipped away from the Hollywood limelight. All she wanted was to be alone—but her daughter is about to shatter her solitude.
When Leigh arrives at her mother’s isolated hillside home in Bergen, she’s met with both guarded joy and trepidation. Gunnar, a family friend, is a welcoming figure who sparks an unexpected attraction. But when Leigh reunites with the mother she once longed to know, she discovers a weakened recluse, a woman living in fear. As Leigh opens old wounds, draws out long-buried secrets, and unwittingly invites the dreadful past back into both of their lives, she learns that not everyone is a fan of Laura Worth. Someone wants her dead—and Leigh herself has also been targeted for a killer fade-out. ( )