300 Days of Sun: A Novel

By Deborah Lawrenson

Combining the ambience of Jess Walter's Beautiful Ruins with the fascinating historic backstory of Christina Baker Kline’s Orphan educate, Deborah Lawrenson’s spell binding novel transports readers to a sunny Portuguese city with a shadowy past—where ladies, many years aside, are drawn right into a darkish online game of fact and lies that also haunts the transferring sea marshes.

Traveling to Faro, Portugal, journalist Joanna Millard hopes to flee an unsatisfying dating and a stalled profession. Faro is a fascinating city, and the beach perspectives are stronger by way of the corporate of Nathan Emberlin, a charismatic more youthful guy. yet at the back of the crumbling facades of Moorish constructions, Joanna quickly realizes, Faro has a seedy underbelly, its economic climate compromised by means of corruption and wartime spoils. And Nathan has an ulterior cause for looking her corporation: he's made up our minds to find the reality concerning a child’s kidnapping which could have taken position in this dramatic beach over twenty years ago.

Joanna’s next seek leads her to Ian Rylands, an English expat who cryptically insists she's going to locate solutions in The Alliance, a unique written via American Esta Hartford. The publication recounts an American couple’s event in Portugal in the course of global conflict II, and their entanglements either own with their German enemies. basically Rylands insists the booklet isn’t fiction, and as Joanna reads deeper into The Alliance, she starts to suspect that Esta Hartford’s tale and Nathan Emberlin’s could certainly converge in Faro—where the earlier not just casts an extended shadow yet nonetheless exerts a truly current danger.

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