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My Brother Michael (1960) / ISBN: 9781556529832 '-'
Camilla Haven está de férias e desejosa por uma aventura. Sentada a uma mesa de um café em Atenas, escreve uma carta para sua amiga Elizabeth quando um desconhecido aparece e lhe entrega as chaves de um carro preto estacionado na frente do local. "O carro para Delphi, Senhorita... um caso de vida ou morte", ele sussurra e desaparece. A partir deste momento a vida de Camilla entra em um turbilhão e ela se vê ajudando um inglês chamado Simon Lester a desvendar a morte de seu irmão mais velho, ocorrida há 14 anos. Mas alguém não quer que o passado seja revolvido. Alguém que provavelmente esteve envolvido na morte de Michael.

Camilla Haven, de férias na Grécia, vê-se envolvida numa aventura que, de princípio, parecia não lhe dizer respeito... Suspeita, terror e suspense se sucedem para explodir num violento e excitante clímax acima do Monte Parnaso!

|...| "A fast-moving suspense novel set against the background of Delphi, which affords the reader even more hair-raising nightmarish adventures than in earlier novels." -- —Kirkus Reviews

Mary Stewart, author of many bestselling novels, has been often compared with the Brontë sisters. Her 1960 classic My Brother Michael, with its superb mingling of romance and suspense, its vivid descriptions and overtone of impending disaster, is further evidence that the comparison is richly deserved:

Perhaps Camilla Haven unintentionally invoked the gods that afternoon in the crowded Athens café when she wrote to a friend, “Nothing ever happens to me.” But a few hours later, an extraordinary train of events had dispatched Camilla to Delphi, to be in the company of a charming but quietly determined Englishman named Simon Lester. Simon told Camilla he had come to the ancient Greek ruins to “appease the shade” of his brother Michael, killed some fourteen years earlier on Parnassus. From a curious letter Michael had written, Simon believed his brother had stumbled upon something of great importance hidden in the craggy reaches of the mountainside. And then Simon and Camilla learned that they were not alone in their search . . .

[About the Author]: Mary Stewart is the author of 20 novels, including the Merlin trilogy, The Ivy Tree, Nine Coaches Waiting, and Thornyhold.

Aventura / Crime / Drama / Ficção / Literatura Estrangeira / Romance / Suspense e Mistério