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Gould, Judith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0751501700 ISBN 13: 9780751501704

Publisher: Time Warner Books Uk, 1993

Synopsis

Berlin, 1950. The funeral of a legendary diva has thrown post-war Germany into mourning. Lili Schneider, worshipped by millions, has been brought home for burial after a fire in London. But death is not always the end. Manhattan, 1993. Television journalist Stephanie Merlin is devastated to learn of her grandfather's suicide. She knew he had been working on Lili's biography, but discovers he was on the trail of something much bigger; something so sinister people are prepared to kill to keep the secret safe. Among the first victims: Stephanie herself. But death is not always the end. In contemporary Europe, another determined woman, Monica Williams resolves to finish what Stephanie began- whatever the dangers involved. And so begins an obsessive search for the truth that leads her from the great operatic shrines of Europe to a luxury yacht in the Mediterranean. Here she meets a mysterious billionaire, his equally reclusive mistress- and stumbles upon a truth so monstrous it is almost unbelievable...

About this title

About the Author:

Judith Gould, whose books have been translated into twenty-two languages, lives and writes in Malden Bridge, New York.

From Publishers Weekly:

The bestselling author of Never Too Rich here offers a sticky, implausible narrative blend of intrigue, SF and turgid romance, replete with heaving breasts and robust cliches. In 1950, famed diva and Nazi sympathizer Lili Schneider, supposedly burned fatally and beyond recognition in a fire, was buried in Berlin. But was the body really Lili's? When her biographer asks that question, he winds up hung from a chandelier. His niece, glamorous investigative reporter Stephanie Merlin, vows revenge and soon "dies" in a bomb blast meant to stop her probing. Resurrected in disguise, she whips through a full hand of fake passports while hunting the reclusive de Veigas, Brazilian multimillionaires who may know Lili's whereabouts. After ramming their high-security yacht with a motorboat, Stephanie catapults into the heart and bed of their son Eduardo de Veiga, a macho who never once asks about his new lover's past. The elder de Veigas, who seem to have drained the fountain of youth, keep a rabid ex-CIA man on a very loose leash; support an international charity for needy children, many of whom disappear forever; and report daily for mysterious transfusions to a doctor who did research under the Third Reich. Stilted dialogue and florid narrative touches drown the few sparks Gould manages to strike during a manhunt in the final chapters.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Time Warner Books Uk
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0751501700
• ISBN 13: 9780751501704
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1