The Last of the Stanfields Download

ISBN: B079DPT97R
Title: The Last of the Stanfields Pdf

A mystery, a love story, and a search through a shadowy past. Two strangers unite in this novel of family secrets by international bestselling author Marc Levy, the most read contemporary French author in the world.

When London journalist Eleanor-Rigby Donovan receives an anonymous letter alluding to a crime committed by her deceased mother, her life is turned upside down. It points her to a bar on the Baltimore Harbor, where she finds a stranger who has received the same mysterious letter about his own mother. Together, Eleanor-Rigby and this young man, George-Harrison Collins, embark on a quest through the shadowy past of the Stanfields, a moneyed Maryland family full of unimaginable secrets. These secrets will transport them back decades, across continents, and to a mysterious crime long buried…until now.

Excellent! I see WHY the author is the most-read French author. The story spanned decades, but the characters were slowly revealed until the last twist.Not my cup of tea with the language and morals I'm not faulting the writing talent. I have no complaints about the plot or characters or readability. But I avoid cussing and bed-hopping. Not enough customer reviews were in for me to know this book would be icky with those.Strains credibility TOO FAR! I do not remember ever reviewing a book I had not finished, but this one was irredeemable.Incredibly implausible premise, but the author is supposedly the most popular author in France, and it was free, so I picked it up and persisted through 50 pages because the writing style is so engaging. There is just too much suspension of disbelief to swallow. For example, in 1980 the book claims women in Baltimore were not allowed to be writers on papers, just researchers. I am sure that was not true. For example, I knew the woman who was the Baltimore Sunpaper restaurant critic in 1975, and there were women reporters on the paper as well. And one night a bunch of friends get together and decide to start their own paper, and one of them, who is an accountant for Procter and Gamble and not even in the industry, sits down and works up their business plan including staffing and pay that evening! See why it strains my little critical senses? So far the Maryland setting does not seem too true-to-life either, and I have lived here all my life.I find the author's bio also rather implausible. Why would an author who lives in New York need a translator? And doesn't he sound like a bit too much of a polymath? I was prepared to find out the bio is also fiction, but I looked him up, and the part about his popularity is accurate! Mon dieu!