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From America’s Queen of Suspense comes a gripping tale of a young woman trying to unravel the mystery of a family tragedy — a quest with terrifying repercussions. It has been ten years since twenty-one-year-old Charles MacKenzie Jr. (‘Mack’) went missing. A Columbia University senior, about to graduate and already accepted at Duke University Law School, he walked out of his apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side without a word to his college roommates and has never been seen again. However, he does make one ritual phone call to his mother every year: on Mother’s Day. Each time, he assures her he is fine, refuses to answer her frantic questions, then hangs up. Even the death of his father, a corporate lawyer, in the tragedy of 9/11 does not bring him home or break the pattern of his calls. Mack’s sister, Carolyn, is now twenty-six, a law school graduate, and has just finished her clerkship for a civil court judge in Manhattan. She has endured two family tragedies, yet she realizes that she will never be able to have closure and get on with her life until she finds her brother. She resolves to discover what happened to Mack and why he has found it necessary to hide from them. So this year when Mack makes his annual Mother’s Day call, Carolyn interrupts to announce her intention to track him down, no matter what it takes. The next morning after Mass, her uncle, Monsignor Devon MacKenzie, receives a scrawled message left in the collection basket: ‘Uncle Devon, tell Carolyn she must not look for me.’ Mack’s cryptic warning does nothing to deter his sister from taking up the search, despite the angry reaction of her mother, Olivia, and the polite disapproval of Elliott Wallace, Carolyn’s honorary uncle, who is clearly in love with Olivia. Carolyn’s pursuit of the truth about Mack’s disappearance swiftly plunges her into a world of unexpected danger and unanswered questions. What is the secret that Gus and Lil Kramer, the superintendents of the building in which Mack was living, have to hide’ What do Mack’s old roommates, the charismatic club owner Nick DeMarco and the cold and wealthy real estate tycoon Bruce Galbraith, know about Mack’s disappearance’ Is Nick connected to the disappearance of Leesey Andrews, who had last been seen in his trendy club’ Can the police possibly believe that Mack is not only alive, but a serial killer, a shadowy predator of young women’ Was Mack also guilty of the brutal murder of his drama teacher and the theft of his taped sessions with her’ Carolyn’s passionate search for the truth about her brother — and for her brother himself — leads her into a deadly confrontation with someone close to her whose secret he cannot allow her to reveal. Read more…
Abstract: From America’s Queen of Suspense comes a gripping tale of a young woman trying to unravel the mystery of a family tragedy — a quest with terrifying repercussions. It has been ten years since twenty-one-year-old Charles MacKenzie Jr. (‘Mack’) went missing. A Columbia University senior, about to graduate and already accepted at Duke University Law School, he walked out of his apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side without a word to his college roommates and has never been seen again. However, he does make one ritual phone call to his mother every year: on Mother’s Day. Each time, he assures her he is fine, refuses to answer her frantic questions, then hangs up. Even the death of his father, a corporate lawyer, in the tragedy of 9/11 does not bring him home or break the pattern of his calls. Mack’s sister, Carolyn, is now twenty-six, a law school graduate, and has just finished her clerkship for a civil court judge in Manhattan. She has endured two family tragedies, yet she realizes that she will never be able to have closure and get on with her life until she finds her brother. She resolves to discover what happened to Mack and why he has found it necessary to hide from them. So this year when Mack makes his annual Mother’s Day call, Carolyn interrupts to announce her intention to track him down, no matter what it takes. The next morning after Mass, her uncle, Monsignor Devon MacKenzie, receives a scrawled message left in the collection basket: ‘Uncle Devon, tell Carolyn she must not look for me.’ Mack’s cryptic warning does nothing to deter his sister from taking up the search, despite the angry reaction of her mother, Olivia, and the polite disapproval of Elliott Wallace, Carolyn’s honorary uncle, who is clearly in love with Olivia. Carolyn’s pursuit of the truth about Mack’s disappearance swiftly plunges her into a world of unexpected danger and unanswered questions. What is the secret that Gus and Lil Kramer, the superintendents of the building in which Mack was living, have to hide’ What do Mack’s old roommates, the charismatic club owner Nick DeMarco and the cold and wealthy real estate tycoon Bruce Galbraith, know about Mack’s disappearance’ Is Nick connected to the disappearance of Leesey Andrews, who had last been seen in his trendy club’ Can the police possibly believe that Mack is not only alive, but a serial killer, a shadowy predator of young women’ Was Mack also guilty of the brutal murder of his drama teacher and the theft of his taped sessions with her’ Carolyn’s passionate search for the truth about her brother — and for her brother himself — leads her into a deadly confrontation with someone close to her whose secret he cannot allow her to reveal
از ملکه تعلیق آمریکا، داستان جذاب یک زن جوان می آید که تلاش می کند راز یک تراژدی خانوادگی را کشف کند – تلاشی با پیامدهای وحشتناک. ده سال از ناپدید شدن چارلز مکنزی جونیور بیست و یک ساله (مک) می گذرد. یک دانشجوی ارشد دانشگاه کلمبیا، که در شرف فارغالتحصیل شدن بود و قبلاً در دانشکده حقوق دانشگاه دوک پذیرفته شده بود، از آپارتمان خود در منهتن خارج شد بدون اینکه حرفی به کالجش بزند. هم اتاقی است و دیگر هرگز دیده نشده است. با این حال، او هر سال یک تماس تلفنی با مادرش برقرار می کند: در روز مادر. هر بار به او اطمینان می دهد که حالش خوب است، از پاسخ دادن به سؤالات دیوانه وار او امتناع می ورزد، سپس تلفن را قطع می کند. حتی مرگ پدرش، وکیل شرکتی، در فاجعه 11 سپتامبر او را به خانه نمی آورد و الگوی تماس هایش را در هم نمی شکند. خواهر مک، کارولین، اکنون بیست و شش ساله است و فارغ التحصیل دانشکده حقوق است و به تازگی کارآموزی خود را برای یک قاضی دادگاه مدنی در منهتن به پایان رسانده است. او دو تراژدی خانوادگی را متحمل شده است، با این حال متوجه می شود که تا زمانی که برادرش را پیدا نکند، هرگز نمی تواند به زندگی خود ادامه دهد. او تصمیم می گیرد تا بفهمد چه اتفاقی برای مک افتاده است و چرا او لازم است از آنها پنهان شود. بنابراین امسال وقتی مک تماس سالانه روز مادر را برقرار می کند، کارولین قطع می کند تا قصد خود را برای ردیابی او، بدون توجه به آنچه که لازم باشد، اعلام می کند. صبح روز بعد پس از مراسم عشای ربانی، عمویش، موسینور دوون مکنزی، پیام خط خورده ای را دریافت می کند که در سبد مجموعه باقی مانده است: “عمو دوون، به کارولین بگو که نباید دنبال من بگردد.” با وجود واکنش خشم آلود مادرش، اولیویا، و مخالفت مؤدبانه الیوت والاس، عموی افتخاری کارولین، که آشکارا عاشق اولیویا است، اخطار رمزآلود مک هیچ کاری برای منصرف کردن خواهرش از شروع جستجو انجام نمی دهد. جستجوی کارولین برای یافتن حقیقت در مورد ناپدید شدن مک به سرعت او را در دنیایی از خطرات غیرمنتظره و سوالات بی پاسخ فرو می برد. رازی که گاس و لیل کرامر، سرپرستان ساختمانی که مک در آن زندگی میکرد، چیست، چیست؟ هم اتاقیهای قدیمی ماک، مالک باشگاه کاریزماتیک نیک دیمارکو و سرمایهدار سرد و ثروتمند املاک و مستغلات بروس گالبریت، از چه میدانند. ناپدید شدن مک” آیا نیک با ناپدید شدن لیسی اندروز که آخرین بار در کلوپ مد روز خود دیده شده بود مرتبط است” آیا پلیس احتمالاً می تواند باور کند که مک نه تنها زنده است، بلکه یک قاتل زنجیره ای است، یک شکارچی در سایه زنان جوان. به جرم قتل وحشیانه معلم نمایشنامه اش و دزدیدن جلسات ضبط شده اش با او، جست و جوی پرشور کارولین برای یافتن حقیقت در مورد برادرش – و برای خود برادرش – او را به درگیری مرگبار با یکی از نزدیکانش می کشاند که رازش او نمی تواند به او اجازه افشاگری بدهد. ادامه مطلب…
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