Kathryn L. Robinson

Under the Tree Fern (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Perfect for fans of State of Wonder, this lushly written debut novel offers up one dead body, two amateur sleuths separated by decades, a vividly depicted Caribbean setting, and years of long-buried family secrets. In 1942 Puerto Rico, the death of a middle-aged American woman in the heart of El Yunque Rainforest arouses little attention from anyone-except for the sixteen-year-old boy who finds her. Bright and introverted, Eduardo Colón initially shrinks from the publicity stirred up by his find. He has enough problems with his adoptive parents urging him to leave his sheltered life in Puerto Rico and study in the States. But when he learns the dead woman, Laura Morrison, was once his mother's schoolmate, curiosity overcomes qualms and he searches island-wide for answers. What he discovers draws him into dangerous wartime intrigues and a tangle of disturbing personal connections. Decades later, Pamela Palmer sits on a balcony overlooking Lake Coeur d'Alene in northern Idaho, reminiscing about her years of teaching in Puerto Rico and the discovery of a grand-aunt who died there under mysterious circumstances. Playing amateur detective among her other roles of mother, divorcee, and island transplant, she eventually stumbles onto what really happened to Laura Morrison. Reaching across different times, places, and cultures, Eduardo and Pamela find answers about the enigmatic woman-answers that change their lives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798896363330
• Artikelnr.: 75711375

Autorenporträt

Kathryn L. Robinson, originally from New Jersey, lived for forty years in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where she taught university-level English and freelanced as a travel writer and editor. Her writing has appeared in newspapers, magazines, documentaries, and radio; her nonfiction books include Where Dwarfs Reign: A Tropical Rain Forest in Puerto Rico,. In 2013 she relocated with her husband, trading the warm Caribbean waters for the chillier Inland Northwest lakes, where she set about focusing on fiction writing. She currently lives in Spokane, Washington.