John Copenhaver: Goddess of Love, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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A past that won't stay buried. A love that refuses to die. A killer among them.

Washington, D. C., September 1964.

Judy Nightingale and Philippa Dolittle, née Watson, haven't spoken in years--until Judy's latest novel, The Savage Kind, drags their shared past into public view and forces an uneasy reunion.

Then comes the shock: Judy's estranged birth mother--the woman who once tried to poison them both--has died, leaving her everything. A house. A fortune. A household that watches too closely. And a stack of letters signed Mother, each enclosing pages from Judy's lost radio play Frankenstein's Sister--warnings that feel less like memory and more like threat.

Soon, the warnings turn real. Accidents multiply. Near misses sharpen into intent. And Judy--brilliant, guarded, and increasingly targeted--turns to the only person who ever truly understood her: Philippa.

After a glittering dinner party of old friends and hidden agendas, the danger turns deadly. By morning, a guest is dead, and Judy's Mercedes lies in a ravine--its brake line cleanly cut. The intended victim was Judy.

What follows draws Philippa and Judy back into each other's orbit--and into everything they never resolved. Philippa, now married with a child, has buried her past beneath a carefully constructed life. Judy, fiercely independent yet haunted by gaps in her own history, refuses to look away from what she cannot remember.

But the letters keep coming. And someone is still writing the ending.

Goddess of Love concludes John Copenhaver's Nightingale Trilogy, following Hall of Mirrors , a New York Times Book of the Year.

Queer, suspenseful, and deeply seductive, this is a murder mystery where love is both the most powerful weapon--and the deadliest risk.