The Shadow Line
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The Shadow Line |
"The Shadow Line is, for readers with a taste for first-class suspense, the No. 1 thriller of the fall season."
—People Magazine (1982)
Laura Furman's The Shadow Line has something for everyone: Literary readers will enjoy the complex relationships between friends and lovers. Mystery fans will relish the atmospheric rendition of place and the steadily escalating tension as Furman's heroine gropes her way ever deeper into danger.
When New York reporter Liz Gold comes to Houston for a fresh start following the early death of her estranged husband, she thinks she is moving into the limitless future, a place where people have no past and old ties no longer bind.
So she's surprised when her first assignment for Spindletop magazine requires her to investigate the twenty-year-old unsolved murder of a woman who had been the mistress of a prominent local businessman. As Liz digs deeper into the mystery, the last thing she expects is that she will learn why no one has ever been brought to trial for the crime. Or that when she does, she will find herself in mortal danger.
Taking its title from Raymond Chandler ("…you can never know too much about the shadow line and the people who walk it"), The Shadow Line explores the moral complexities of friendship and love, commitment and responsibility, wealth and the power wealth brings--all in a book that has the structure and pace of the best suspense fiction.