A Cry in the Shadows

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One cold night in Rome, Susan Bley waits for her neighbor, Alexandra, to join her and her nine-year-old daughter, Margot, for dinner, but she never arrives. Days later, Susan, who is blind, hears Alexandra's dog whining on the other side of the apartment door as she walks past Alexandra's apartment. With help from a neighbor, they enter and discover Alexandra gone and report her disappearance to the police. From this news, Inspector Andrea Danzi now knows the body they found just that morning at the city dump is Susan's neighbor.

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Unbeknown to Susan, Margot had unwittingly run into Alexandra's killer in the basement the night she was killed, and because of that chance encounter, the killer knows Margot may talk...

At that same time, Susan's friend Nora Cooper, who lives in Martha's Vineyard, has disturbing dreams and unusual visions about her friend Susan. Something very dangerous is about to happen to her. But what?

Together, but miles away from each other, Nora and Susan try to uncover the plans of a desperate killer, while Margot's life is in danger, and every neighbor in her apartment building is suspect.

"A Cry in the Shadows" is the second adventure of Nora Cooper, the intriguing real estate agent with the surprising gift of being able to communicate with the hereafter.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 291 pages

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