Burden of Memory, Vicki Delany
Burden of Memory, Vicki Delany
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Burden of Memory
A Mystery

Author: Vicki Delany

Narrator: Carrington MacDuffie

Unabridged: 10 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/08/2012

Synopsis

Elaine Benson, a successful novelist who let love in the person of an unreliable screenwriter jettison her career, is now divorced, broke, and on her way to a so-called primitive, untamed northern forest on Canadas Lake Muskoka to interview for a job. Elderly Miss Moira Madison of the fabulously rich Canadian family wishes to write her memoirs. Miss Madison isnt interested in a bestseller; she wants to leave a record of her life and, most specifically, of her years with the Canadian Army Nursing Sisters of World War II. Her service in the European theaters was filled with triumphs and bitter losses and forever shaped her life. Settling into the family cottage and what remains of a lifestyle long gone, Elaine reconnects with her love of researching the pastuntil she discovers that the first such writer hired died under suspicious circumstances. Could her project stir someone to murder?

About Vicki Delany

Vicki Delany is one of Canada's most prolific and varied crime writers and a national bestseller in the US. She is currently writing four cozy mystery series: The Tea by the Sea mysteries, the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop series, the Year Round Christmas mysteries, and as Eva Gates, the Lighthouse Library series. A past president of the Crime Writers of Canada and a co-organizer of Women Killing it, a crime writing festival, her work has been nominated for the Derringer, the Bony Blithe, the Ontario Library Association Golden Oak, and the Arthur Ellis Awards. She is the recipient of the 2019 Derrick Murdoch Award for contributions to Canadian crime writing. Vicki lives and writes in bucolic Prince Edward County, Ontario.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Annette on April 07, 2014

Awesome read!!!! Vicki Delany has managed to combine, love, intrigue, mystery and a heartwarming story all in one. I couldn't put this book down. A real page turner til the end!......more

Goodreads review by IAmTheHolly on May 06, 2024

Elaine has been hired by the elderly Miss Moira to write her memoir.  Her reflections her time as a nurse during WWII intertwine with a present-day mystery that seems to be hovering just out of sight at the family "cottage". I've read a few of Vicki Delany's other books (see In the Shadow of the Glac......more

Goodreads review by Rebecca on March 27, 2022

I was captivated by this one, listening to the last third while just sitting at home, which I never do with my audiobooks. (I usually only listen while driving.) My one main frustration/criticism was that the familial relationships (the family tree) weren’t explained better right from the start, & t......more

Goodreads review by Edelweiss on August 16, 2020

A decent enough Historical Fiction with supernatural elements which were (to my mind) not nearly subtle enough. I think that the overall story & explicit contrast between what the biographer is getting and the actual events is fun, and I do love that concept of keeping the past alive only to your ow......more

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