The Lost Years

A Novel

De: Mary Higgins Clark

Narrado por: Jan Maxwell

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.

Try it you'll like it

This is a great book in the Mary Higgins Clark tradition. Wonderfully read. I recommend it.

Good book

Where does The Lost Years rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

Good book - probably in the top 10 audio books I have listened to so far

Any additional comments?

Good reader, good plot

The lost years

I was really good . I liked reading her again.Does this mean she's back writing again?

Excellent!

Another great suspense by MHC! She is my favorite author. I have been enjoying her work for 20 years now.

Love MHC books!

Always a thriller, always keeps you going. I always enjoy every Mary Higgins Clark book!

ok

narrator stunk..she tried to speak as a male..then went right back to her female . voice. the story was good though

Slightly confusing and a bit slow...

It was an ok listen, but I would not recommend it to anyone... nothing really stood out as a memorable moment...

An interesting story well done

I enjoyed this book and especially enjoyed the relationship between mother and daughter given mother’s illness. Storyline was different and enough twists and turns to keep me guessing.

Mary delivers yet again!

What made the experience of listening to The Lost Years the most enjoyable?

I enjoy the pace of MHC's plots as they unfold with ease and give you very believable characters.

What did you like best about this story?

I think I found the threads of history very interesting, and the mystery was most tastefully done.

What about Jan Maxwell’s performance did you like?

This may seem odd; but though I like Jan's voice, sometimes when she switches to the main female character it's sweet as syrup... just sounds fake. That being said, bear in mind that this is the only negative critique of her performance that I could ever give.

Characters Not Distinctive

I absolutely love MHC, but this book was hard to enjoy because the suspects were all very similar. When the culprit is revealed my thought was, which one was that? The Jesuit guy? The rich guy? The other rich guy? I feel like I would need a character bio sheet to actually enjoy the story to its fullest.