The Lost Years

ByMary Higgins Clark

Release Date: 2012-04-03
Genre: Women Sleuths

Score: 4

From 832 Ratings

Description

Now in mass market, the latest suspense from #1 New York Times bestselling author and Queen of Suspense Mary Higgins Clark, where a biblical scholar is found murdered shortly after discovering the most revered and holy document in human history, which has now gone missing...

Dr. Jonathan Lyons, a seventy-year-old biblical scholar, believes he has found the rarest of parchments—a letter that may have been written by Jesus Christ. Stolen from the Vatican library in the fifteenth century, it was assumed to be lost forever. Under the promise of secrecy, Jonathan attempts to confirm his findings with several other biblical experts. But on the eve before his own murder, he confides to Father Aiden O’Brien, a family friend, that one of those whom he trusted most is determined to keep it from being returned to the Vatican.

The next evening Jonathan Lyons is found shot to death in his New Jersey home. His daughter, twenty-seven year old Mariah, finds her father’s body sprawled over his desk in his study, a fatal bullet wound in the back of his neck, and her mother, Kathleen, an Alzheimer’s victim, hiding in the study closet, incoherent and clutching the murder weapon. The police suspect that Kathleen, who in her lucid moments knows that Jonathan was involved with a much younger woman Lily Stewart, has committed the murder.

But Mariah believes that the key to her father’s death is tied to another question: Where is the missing parchment? Whom, among his close circle of friends, might he have consulted? And did one of them kill to keep possession of the letter?

With all the elements that have made her a worldwide bestseller, Mary Higgins Clark’s The Lost Years is at once a breathless murder mystery and a hunt for what may be the most precious religious and archaeological treasure of all time.

Reviews

The Lost Years
5
By hcclc
Excellent quick read. Thank you MARY HIGGIS CLARK
Again-a page turner!!
5
By 76gal
I loved it! She can even write so you can picture what each person looks like. She is such a clean writer- no profanity, which I truly appreciate! Going to purchase another one on iTunes! So easy to read on iPad. Thanks Mary!
The lost years
5
By Gummy4124
Always a great read . Love Mary Higgin Clark's books.
Awesome!
5
By SterlingD
Awesome!
The Lost Years
5
By Dancesw/llamas
This book was fast paced and well written as usual. I always appreciate the history I pick up on in Mary Higgins Clark books and loved reading it as an ebook. I also love the recurrence of characters such as Alvirah and Willy Meenan.
The LostYears
3
By Katzber
I've been a fan for many years and always anticipate the next book.

This one was, in my opinion, not as much of a page-turner as most but I did enjoy it. The subject matter was unique which was a big plus.

Katherine
Least favorite MHC
2
By Mon206
MHC is one of my favorite authors. I always love her books and can hardly put them down. However, this book was my least favorite of her's and it took me months to read. It was really boring and not as suspenseful as usual. I wish I would have checked it out from the library and not paid to buy it from here. Disappointed!!
제목은 그리스도의 잃어버린 세월, 그러나
2
By jjerby
책 내용은 제목과 전혀 상관이 없다. 그래서 좋은 평가를 내리기 무지 어렵다. 그렇다고 스릴러로서의 기본적인 플롯 구성도 만족스럽지는 않다는 데 문제가 있지 않을까?
So good
5
By Maggie 04
I have always been a fan of this author.
This book was a page turner. I thoroughly
enjoyed reading it.
Wasn't too pleased...
1
By -Daniel(:
Always loved Mary Higgins Clark books, however, this one wasn't to amusing to me.