The Shadow of Your Smile

Als Olivia Morrow Jonathan Williams heiratet, hat sie wie alle anderen Schwierigkeiten, ihn von seinem eineiigen Zwillingsbruder Charles zu unterscheiden. Fünf Jahre später fällt Charles offenbar einem Raubmord zu Opfer. Jonathan ist untröstlich. Nach mehreren Monaten jedoch überkommen die Psychologin Olivia Zweifel, ob der Mann an ihrer Seite wirklich Jonathan ist. Bei ihren Nachforschungen kommt ein alter Skandal an die Oberfläche. Auch ein anderer will die Wahrheit - um jeden Preis...

At age eighty-three and in failing health, Olivia Morrow knows she has little time left. The last of her line, she faces a momentous choice: expose a long-held family secret, or take it with her to her grave. Olivia has in her possession letters from her deceased cousin Catherine, a nun, now being considered for beatification by the Catholic Church. These letters reveal that, at the age of seventeen, Catherine gave birth to a son and gave him up for adoption and they identify the father as Alex Gannon, a world-famous doctor, scientist and inventor of medical patents. Now, two generations later, thirty-one year old paediatrician, Dr. Monica Farrell, Catherine''s granddaughter, stands as the rightful heir to what remains of the Gannon family fortune. But in telling Monica who she really is and getting what is lawfully hers, Olivia would have to betray Catherine''s wishes and reveal the story behind Monica''s ancestry. As the pressure of Olivia''s impending choice weighs down on her, little does she realize that Alex Gannon''s grand-nephews - who are currently exploiting the Gannon inheritance to fund their profligate lifestyles - will stop at nothing to silence Olivia and prevent Monica from learning the secret, even murder.

Auteur
The number one New York Times bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark wrote over forty suspense novels, four collections of short stories, a historical novel, a memoir and two children's books. She partnered with bestselling author Alafair Burke to write the Under Suspicion series, including I've Got You Under My Skin, The Cinderella Murder, All Dressed in White, The Sleeping Beauty Killer, Every Breath You Take, You Don't Own Me and Piece of My Heart, and with her daughter Carol Higgins Clark she co-authored five more suspense novels. Her books are international bestsellers with more than one hundred million copies in print in the United States alone.