The Painting of Deceit: Fortier Series - Book 1 of 5 - Couverture souple

Grand, R.J.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0615487513 ISBN 13 : 9780615487519

Editeur : Grand Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

Jacques Fortier is too busy with his high-powered job in Manhattan to spend time with his children at their estate in Ridgefield, Connecticut. Great Aunt Ida hears that her nephew, Jeffrey, is responsible for a car smashing into a tree across from his home. Jeff has displayed odd behavior since an early age. She knows there are guns on the premises and secrets among her family members. The memory of a neighbor being found dead nags at her. Feeling ill, Ida visits her physician and is given less than a year to live. She writes a letter she claims is from a friend. Ida tells Jeff's older sister, Ellie, who is helping to raise him, that she's lost her reading glasses and invites Ellie to read the letter for her. Middle-aged Auntie Weeze, oblivious to Jacques' failure to assert himself with his family, cares for Great Aunt Ida in her last days. Weeze forces herself to ask the one question she's terrified of, the one she resisted until now because Ida is failing, the one that if she doesn't ask could cost her gravely for eternity-the one that, because of what Aunt Ida did, she doesn't know where it will lead.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Jeffrey Fortier’s sister Ellie helps to raise him on their estate where neighbors’ homes are not in close enough proximity to hear their parents’ psychological abuse which is used as discipline. Jeff is mischievous and displays no regard for danger, and Ellie gets punished for anything bad that occurs. When their great aunt Ida Kidd is diagnosed with a terminal illness, she leaves newborn Isabella Fortier two mysterious dolls with a riddle. After a fire starts at their estate and being fearful of her next punishment, Ellie devises a plan in a desperate attempt to stop her parents’ psychological torture. Rookie police officer, Patrick Russell spends time with Ellie in hopes to get information to arrest Jeff and make a name for himself, but Ellie makes excuses even after she spies Jeff building explosives, because she is scared Officer Russell will derail her plan to stop her parents’ abuse.

Biographie de l'auteur :

In high school, after a relative suggested emancipating (divorcing) R.J. to R.J.'s parents as a form of control and they went to court, R.J. became interested in writing the story but did not start it until 2009. This experience, what came after, a love of books and great passion for writing inspired R.J.'s weaving of personal fiction into mysteries. It's a natural direction for R.J. to write stories of mysterious menacing humans and the disturbing outcomes that transpire from their ill behavior. The third book, COMPO COVE, about the Fortier family is currently being written. The Fortier Series is R.J. Grand's first series. R.J. Grand attended Sacred Heart University, has three children, and resides in Connecticut.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Grand Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0615487513
• ISBN 13: 9780615487519
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 400