A Place of Hiding (edit title)

nothingpetty edited the summary of A Place of Hiding 6 days ago.

• If you liked the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society you will like Elizabeth George's mystery novels. She has written quite a few that are in s eries featuring Scotland yard guy named Lynley. (If you like following a sequence look for the publishing dates on these because they do follow thru that way)
  Bust the book I'm suggesting now is A Place of Hiding and is about the Guersey Island in the English Channel. It takes place dluring the German occupation of the island during WWII. It has the usual twists and turns of a mystery and also descrives the lives and situations of the locals who endure the occupation for several years. A fun read

nothingpetty edited the first sentence of A Place of Hiding 6 days ago.

• Santa Ana winds are no friends to photography, but that was something you could not tell egomaniacal architect who believed his entire reputation rested upon capturing for posterity- and for Architectural Digest- fifty-two thousand square feet of unfinished hillside sprawl today.

nothingpetty edited the characters of A Place of Hiding 6 days ago.

• Edited the description of China Rivers: I have loaned this book out so I can;t add all these descriptions. I'll dobetter next timeNot quite successful photographer with a long distance and stormy relationship with someone she'd met in her teens, lured to Gurnsey by her brother
• Added the description of Cherokee Rivers: Her half-brother, always looking for the easy way
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• Added the description of Deborah St. James: Photographer, wife of Simon, friend of China who helped her in the past
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• Added the description of Simon St. James: Noted forensic scientist, crippled in an auto accident in his youth. Methodical as oppossed to his wife's intuitive reactions.
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• Added the description of Margaret Chamberlain: Long-ago ex-wife of Guy Bousard and feirce protecter of her son's, Adrian Brousard, inheritance rights
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• Added the description of Ruth Bousard: Loved sister of Guy, with whom she escaped the Nazi's in France. Now dying of Cancer. Chief witness against China Rivers
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• Added the description of Frank Ouseley: Dedicated to his father's dream of building a musuem to honor the victims of the island's occupation by the Nazis during the war. In Frank's eyes, his father is a hero. He has spent a portion of his life collecting war memorbilia.
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• Added the description of Graham Ouseley: Ninety-eight and zealous advocate of the museum. Has an abiding hate for the Germans and their collaborators
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• Added the description of Paul Fielder: Near autistic (my judgement) teenager with a bad home life and a bully for a brother. He's pretty, in a feminine way. He loves only his dog Taboo and has a fierce loyalty to Guy Brousard, his mentor.
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Joan e edited the characters of A Place of Hiding Thursday, August 13 2009.

• Changed the section title: Cast of Characters/Important People
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Joan e edited the summary of A Place of Hiding Thursday, August 13 2009.

• If you liked the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society you will like Elizabeth George's mystery novels. She has written quite a few that are in s eries featuring Scotland yard guy named Lynley. (If you like following a sequence look for the publishing dates on these because they do follow thru that way)
  Bust the book I'm suggesting now is A Place of Hiding and is about the Guersey Island in the English Channel. It takes place dluring the German occupation of the island during WWII. It has the usual twists and turns of a mystery and also descrives the lives and situations of the locals who endure the occupation for several years. A fun read

Shelfari edited the description of A Place of Hiding Wednesday, August 5 2009.

• An isolated beach on the island of Guernsey in the English Channel is the scene of the murder of Guy Brouard, one of Guernsey’s wealthiest inhabitants and its main benefactor. Forced as a child to flee the Nazis in Paris, Brouard was engaged in his latest project when he died: a museum in honor of those who resisted the German occupation of the island during World War II. It is from this period of time that his murderer may well have come. But there are others on Guernsey with reason to want Guy Brouard dead: his wives, his business associates, his current mistress, the underprivileged teenagers he mentored—any of whom might have harbored a secret motive for murder. As family and friends gather for the reading of the will, Deborah and Simon St. James find that seemingly everyone on the history-haunted island has something to hide. And behind all the lies and alibis, a killer is lurking. In order to bring this person to justice, the St. James must delve into Guernsey’s dark history—both past and present—and into the troubled psyche of someone who may have exacted retribution for the most unspeakable crime of all. In A Place of Hiding , bestselling novelist Elizabeth George marks new territory in the darker landscapes of human relationships. She tells a gripping, suspenseful story of betrayal and devotion, war and remembrance, love and loss...and the higher truths to which we must all ultimately answer. From the Hardcover edition.

Shelfari edited the contributors of A Place of Hiding Thursday, July 23 2009.

• Added a contributor: Elizabeth George: (Primary Author)