Reeling from a thwarted romance and her sister's sudden death, Nicole Ryan flees Washington, D.C., for an important scientific conference in L.A., where she learns that her sister's death may not have been an accident.
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O'Brien follows up The Keeper with a melodramatic story of hidden identity and murder set in the worlds of medical research and pharmaceuticals. Mary Clare Ryan, a brilliant young Washington, D.C., research biologist is killed in a car crash that her sister Nicole, an associate professor of mythology and comparative religion, isn't convinced was an accident. A plane ticket to Los Angeles originally in Mary Clare's name is mysteriously signed over and sent to Nikki, who also finds a photo of her sister with documentary filmmaker Dan Rossi, the man Nikki had been seeing before he abruptly left for L.A. three months earlier. A notebook that Mary Clare had asked Nikki to give to Dan "if anything ever happens to me" is now missing. Nikki flies to L.A., where Mary Clare was to have attended an immunology conference, and stays at Dan's place in order to snoop. Nikki becomes convinced that Mary Clare, who had discovered the key to a revolutionary new drug, was murdered. After persuading L.A. detective sergeant Leo De Santo that something odd is going on, she and he pool resources to find Mary Clare's killer. Folk tales and abusive relationships are additional elements in this fairly predictable tale.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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The sudden death of associate professor Nicole Ryan's sister, a research biologist, adds to her already heavy emotional burden. Nicole's subsequent desire to escape D.C. and its problems sets her on a trail of murder and corruption.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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I can't say enough how much I enjoyed this book! I'm always telling people that Sandra Bullock should do a film on this book and play the main character - Nicole Ryan. I just didn't know who to trust in it - who was the good guy or the bad guy. And the end...well you have got to check this one out for yourself. But, make sure to make an appointment to get your nails re-done afterwards. I bit all of mine off! Will someone make a movie out of this one? Please. :-)
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