Isabelle Caron Books

'Investigating Other People S Tragedies And Cock-Ups And Misfortunes Was All He Knew. He Was Used To Being A Voyeur, The Outsider Looking In, And Nothing, But Nothing, That Anyone Did Surprised Him Any More. Yet Despite Everything He D Seen And Done, Inside Jackson There Remained A Belief A Small, Battered And Bruised Belief That His Job Was To Help People Be Good Rather Than Punish Them For Being Bad.'Cambridge Is Sweltering, During An Unusually Hot Summer. To Jackson Brodie, Former Police Inspector Turned Private Investigator, The World Consists Of One Accounting Sheet Lost On The Left, Found On The Right And The Two Never Seem To Balance. Jackson Has Never Felt At Home In Cambridge, And Has A Failed Marriage To Prove It. He Is Forty-Five But Feels Much, Much Older. He Is At That Dangerous Age When Men Suddenly Notice That They Re Going To Die Eventually, Inevitably, And There Isn T A Damn Thing They Can Do About It. Surrounded By Death, Intrigue And Misfortune, His Own Life Is Brought Sharply Into Focus.Ingeniously Plotted, Full Of Suspense And Heartbreak,&Nbsp;Case Histories&Nbsp;Is A Feat Of Bravura Storytelling That Conveys The Mysteries Of Life, Its Inanities And Its Hilarities. It Is A Life-Affirming Work Of Profound Insight And Intelligence.

At the age of twenty-nine, Sydney has already been once divorced and once widowed. Trying to find her footing again, she has answered an advertisement to tutor the teenage daughter of a well-to-do couple as they spend a sultry summer in their oceanfront New Hampshire cottage. But when the Edwards' two grown sons, Ben and Jeff, arrive at the beach house, Sydney finds herself caught up in a destructive web of old tensions and bitter divisions. As the brothers vie for her affections, the fragile existence Sydney has rebuilt is threatened. With the subtle wit, lyrical language, and brilliant insight into real emotion that has led her to be called 'a supremely elegant anatomist of the human heart' (The Times), Shreve weaves a story about risk, family, and the supreme courage that it takes to love.