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    Continuance

    By Marta Tandori

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    About this ebook

    When seven-year-old Ethan du Maurier, only son and heir of New York City real estate tycoon, Alexander du Maurier, disappears during school recess, the FBI quickly determines that his disappearance was an abduction. Within hours of a special news bulletin airing nationwide, the FBI’s hotline is inundated with anonymous tips relating to sightings of a little boy matching Ethan’s description outside a historic Savannah building, now a newly-renovated eatery. The FBI quickly assembles a task force and searches the premises but instead of finding little Ethan, they stumble upon the century-old remains of what appears to be a murdered man hidden in a pirate’s tunnel under the historic building.

    With her restaurant on temporary lockdown pending the FBI’s forensic investigation, owner Annie Eastwood researches the history of the building she inherited, hoping it will shed some light on the identity of the murdered man, but what she uncovers are bits and pieces of a horrible scandal that nearly destroyed the du Maurier family over a century ago. With hopes for Ethan’s safe return dwindling by the hour, Annie finds an unlikely lead in an old classified ad from a Boston newspaper which connects the events of the past to the present-day abduction of Ethan du Maurier—and to the identity of his abductor. Determined to rescue little Ethan before time runs out, Annie quickly realizes that the boy’s abductor will stop at nothing—even murder—in order to exact his revenge.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMarta Tandori
    Release dateJul 30, 2015
    ISBN9781311925336
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    Marta Tandori

    Marta Tandori had always been an avid reader but it wasn't until she began studying acting in her early twenties at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York that she realized acting wasn't really her passion - writing fiction was. Thanks to an overly zealous addiction in her youth to all things Nancy Drew and Trixie Belden, Marta fell in love with mysteries and it's hardly a surprise that she chose to write in the same genre! Marta's books feature strong female protagonists who have closets full of nasty skeletons and the odd murder or two to complicate their already complex lives. She's the author of the Kate Stanton Hollywood Mystery series as well as several other standalone mysteries. To learn more about Marta, please visit her website at http://martatandori.com or her Facebook Author Page at www.facebook.com/MartaTandoriAuthor or connect with her on Twitter at http://twitter.com/MartaTandori (@MartaTandori).

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    • 3/5
      2 books in 1This book starts out in modern day New York City, where a young son of a very wealthy man is kidnapped. Also in modern day, we find out the FBI has decided to choose opening night of a restaurant to serve a warrant that uncovers human remains, dating back 100 years. Then we go back in time to Ellis Island where immigrants are first introduced to the United States. A chance meeting occurs between a young female interpreter (working at Ellis Island until her wedding to an influential man takes place) meets and tries to help a woman in labor from Italy who wants nothing more than to have her child born on American soil.The author does a decent job of flipping back and forth, usually by chapter. I mostly enjoyed the tails of 100 years past. The stories seem pretty independent of each other, of course until the end of the book. The ending chapters showed somewhat of how they connected, but I did not feel it was a smooth as it could have been. I even went back and re-read the last 2 chapters to see if I missed anything. The beginning and middle were pretty solid, but the soft ending just killed it for me.
    • 4/5
      This was an interesting and sometimes confusing book to read. It did take me awhile to get comfortable with the many characters due to the vascillation between the present day and 1905. Once I figured that out, I found myself increasing in my enjoyment of the story. I thought it was odd that the author would give away facts yet established in the past. I felt that the facts were a bit short on details. The the author would go back in time and give the details. Even though I knew the outcome, it was still interesting. Overall a good story and I will definitively read more of Ms Tandori's books.
    • 3/5
      This was a fast reading. It tells a part of a family feud which is lasting over 100 years. Therefore the story is changing between the very early 20th century and nowadays. I was a little bit dispersed by this switching because I got the feeling that the main clue of the story wasn't introduced profoundly. There were hints of it but in my opinion other incidences of the past outweighed much more. In the end I was a little bit disappointed.The spelling style is lovely and the part of the past is exciting but regrettably too little related to the present.
    • 2/5
      Ethan is kidnapped in New York and based on an anonymous tip, the feds descend on Annie's restaurant in Savannah. A long deceased body is found in a bricked off part of the restaurant and the plot moves into the past. I thought this book was way too slow. There were too many characters and if was difficult to get to know any of them. The modern day plot was completely unnecessary and was not fully flushed out. Overall, a bust.
    • 4/5
      How the kidnapping of the son and heir of New York City real estate tycoon, Alexander du Maurier, and the gruesome discovery in an opening Savannah restaurant are related forms the basis of this interesting story. After the little boy is kidnapped, hundreds of leads about the incident pour in, and police end up looking at this restaurant for some clues. How are they related? The story of this wealthy family spans the book and shows the reader a fascinating and interesting picture of early life for immigrants in the last century or so, after they arrive here in the US. This was not really the book I expected. Still, I found if fascinating and engrossing as the author skillfully tied all the bits and pieces/clues together for the reader. I thought the description were great and right on, based on what I know. I seldom read books that cover this pan of time, as I prefer modern day books, but this one enveloped me from the start. I have not read anything else by the author, but on how well this book was written, I hope to seek out more of her works. This is a good book for the reader who enjoys a good, solid mystery that evolves bit by bit, clue by clue. I received this from Library Thing to read and review.
    • 4/5
      Ethan du Maurier a 7 year old disappears from school in New York. Annie Eastwood, owner of a new restaurant in Savannah, becomes involved due to sightings of the boy outside of her restaurant. The FBI start investigating and find the remains of a man in the walls of Annie's restaurant. Annie travels to New York to meet Ethan's father to see if she could help in some way. Since her restaurant is closed, she decided to do some investigating on her own, to find out who was the original owner of her building. The book takes you on a journey that starts in the present and goes back to the early 1900's. You learn about the family dynamics of a wealthy family and the ruthlessness of the head of the family. You also find out what greed and envy can do to a person.A very interesting book with well developed characters. This was a free book from librarything in exchange for an honest review.
    • 4/5
      The kidnapping of young boy leads Annie on a journey of tying together the past and the present in order to help find the boy in time. This book does a job of tying together the stories of old with new in a way that makes sense and enjoyable.
    • 4/5
      Marta Tandori's Continuance is not an easy book to categorize. It is historical fiction, but part of the book takes place in the present day. It is a mystery, but there is no detective. Tandori takes us on a journey through a turn-of-the-century New York family whose wealth is a product of arrogance, greed and unspeakable cruelty, to the long line of immigrants passing through Ellis Island, to the filthy, neglected Lower East Side - a world of hunger, sickness, crime and fear. And that is only the first third of the book.The present day heirs of this cursed family are involved in a double mystery, both of which, it turns out, have roots in actions and events that took place a century ago. There is a kidnapped child of a direct heir to the corrupt industrialist and two unidentified skeletons found buried in the tenements he used to own.While there is a lot of ground covered in Continuance, Ms. Tandori's prose is fluid and unadorned, making it easy for the reader to follow the many characters and settings of the book. Like all good writers of historical fiction, she is able to describe a setting with such precision the reader not only sees a picture of the scene in his mind's eye, but can smell and feel it as well. One of the positives about this book is that it can be read simply as a page-turner, full of tantalizing clues to the underlying mystery. There is the satisfaction of seeing the super-rich air out the family laundry, and for the romantic, there is just enough steam there to kindle the flame of imagination.Personally, I also love a page-turner, but if that book can also lead me into worlds I have not yet experienced, all the better. Continuance offers both.
    • 3/5
      this is always a confident read, and so each time a new direction is in place, the author carries me with her - but maybe it happens too much, and it takes time for the story to settle into what it is - but apart from some writing that is more casual than i like (and that is a matter of personal taste) this is energetic and appealing - my response, i fear, has more to do with my own subjective experience than skill of the writer here.