“In "The Lost Years,
"Mary Higgins Clark, America's Queen of Suspense, has written her most
astonishing novel to date. At its center is a discovery that, if authenticated,
may be the most revered document in human history--"the holiest of the
holy"--and certainly the most coveted and valuable object in the world. Biblical
scholar Jonathan Lyons believes he has found the rarest of parchments--a letter
that may have been written by Jesus Christ. Stolen from the Vatican Library in
the 1500s, the letter was assumed to be lost forever. Now, under the promise of
secrecy, Jonathan is able to confirm his findings with several other experts.
But he also confides in a family friend his suspicion that someone he once
trusted wants to sell the parchment and cash in. Within days Jonathan is found
shot to death in his study. At the same time, his wife, Kathleen, who is
suffering from Alzheimer's, is found hiding in the study closet, incoherent and
clutching the murder weapon. Even in her dementia, Kathleen has known that her
husband was carrying on a long-term affair. Did Kathleen kill her husband in a
jealous rage, as the police contend? Or is his death tied to the larger
question: Who has possession of the priceless parchment that has now gone
missing?
It is up to their daughter,
twenty-eight-year-old Mariah, to clear her mother of murder charges and unravel
the real mystery behind her father's death. Mary Higgins Clark's "The Lost
Years "is at once a breathless murder mystery and a hunt for what may be
the most precious religious and archaeological treasure of all time.”
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