Unbreathed Memories - A Hannah Ives Mystery #2

Marcia Talley

Summary

Hannah Ives doesn't go looking for trouble.
This time, though, trouble's landed right in her lap.
All Hannah really wants is to get on with life.
Having survived a bout of breast cancer, she's looking forward to reconstructive surgery…and a fresh start.
Her Annapolis home has been cheerfully feng shui-ed by her older sister, Ruth, and her parents have just relocated from Washington state to a house conveniently nearby.
And, perhaps best of all, her younger sister, Georgina, is finally receiving help for her protracted post-partum depression.
But when Dr. Sturges, the therapist Georgina has been seeing, takes a nosedive off a balcony, the whole family is in for a roller-coaster ride of confused memories and overwhelming emotions.
Georgina was the last person scheduled to see Dr. Sturges on the day he died — but she quickly deflects suspicion from herself as a murderonto her father, claiming that he was furious that the doctor was helping her to recognize long-buried memories of abuse.
Hannah can't believe it. Her father, a murderer? And worse? Impossible!
Setting her indomitable will to the task of finding out what's really been going on, Hannah wades into a dark and confusing world of secrets and shame, memories and figments of the imagination.
As she begins to uncover a sad tale of fathers and daughters, trust and deceit, reality and delusion, she is pulled further and further along what may prove to be a dangerous path…
Unbreathed Memories is the second book of the Hannah Ives mysteries. The first, Sing It to Her Bones, won the 1998 Malice Domestic Grant, was a Featured Alternate of the Mystery Guild, and was nominated for an Agatha Award for Best First Novel. UNBREATHED MEMORIES received a Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice nomination for Best Contemporary Mystery, 2000.
"No one can match Marcia Talley's unsentimental view of the tangled, complex relationships among adult family members: people who must be, at one and the same time, parents, children sisters, wives. That she can tell a good story while she's at it -- and is even funny -- is Talley's special gift.." - S.J. Rozan, Anthony and Shamus award-winning author of STONE QUARRY.
"This one glows. Unbreathed Memories is about the most provocative issue in the world of criminal justice - memories. [Talley] tells the story of the lethality that is often found in families, but with the potent gifts of a very fine writer." MLB News.
"There's much to admire in Talley's writing. The characters are well drawn, and the dialogue sparkles with Hannah's wit even as it bristles with the full intensity of a family's emotional history laid bare." Baltimore Sun.
Marcia Talley was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and spent much of her childhood moving from place to place as the daughter of a career Marine officer. She met her husband, a professor at the U.S. Naval Academy, at Oberlin College, and shares with him a love of sailing. They divide their time between Annapolis, Maryland, and Dickie's Cay in the Abacos, Bahamas.

Available since: 01/17/2018.

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