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The Mysteries

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Random House Digital, Inc., Mar 1, 2005 - Fiction - 321 pages
From award-winning author Lisa Tuttle comes a riveting novel that combines the contemporary story of one man’s search for a missing young woman with history’s most enduring legends of the disappeared. Gripping and unforgettable, here is a spellbinding mix of the mysteries that inhabit our everyday lives–and a mind-bending exploration of what happens when someone vanishes without a trace.

Ever since his father disappeared when he was nine years old, Ian Kennedy has had a penchant for stories about missing people–and a knack for finding them. Now he’s a private investigator with an impressive track record. But when a woman enters his London office and asks him to find her lost daughter, Ian faces a case he fears he cannot solve–and one he knows he must.

Laura Lensky’s stunning twenty-one-year-old daughter, Peri, has been missing for over two years–a lifetime, under the circumstances. But when Ian learns the details of her disappearance, he discovers eerie parallels to an obscure Celtic myth–and to the haunting case that launched his career, an early success he’s never fully been able to explain. Though Ian suspects Peri may have chosen to vanish, his curiosity leads him to take on the search. Soon he finds himself drawing not only from the mysteries that have preoccupied his adulthood, but from the fables and folklore that pervaded his youth. What follows is a journey that takes Ian and those who care for Peri into the Highlands of Scotland, as the unknowns of the past and present merge in the case–and in their lives.
Rich in pathos and steeped in secrets, The Mysteries opens a thought-provoking door from one world into the heart of another, where some of our most perplexing enigmas–and their answers–are startlingly alive.


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ehn. Not a bad read about people getting sidetracked by faeries and other worldly folk. But the book did get bogged down in itself...like it got side tracked dancing with the wee folk and forgot what it was about. Read full review

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User Review  - Kestrell - Goodreads

This works better as a fantasy novel than a detective novel and, even as a fantasy novel, there is faaar more emo self-absorbption on the part of the protagonist than I find enjoyable. He's a forty ... Read full review

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Contents

Section 1
1
Section 2
6
Section 3
23
Section 4
26
Section 5
40
Section 6
42
Section 7
58
Section 8
62
Section 18
172
Section 19
192
Section 20
194
Section 21
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Section 22
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Section 23
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Section 24
236
Section 25
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Section 9
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Section 10
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Section 11
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Section 12
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Section 13
127
Section 14
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Section 15
146
Section 16
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Section 17
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Section 26
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Section 27
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Section 28
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Section 29
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Section 30
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Section 31
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Section 32
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Section 33
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The Mysteries by Lisa Tuttle - Excerpt - Books - Random House
The Mysteries. book cover Enlarge View ... About The Mysteries; Read an Excerpt; Praise · About Lisa Tuttle · Author Interview · Buy the ebook · ebook Help ...
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..:: cheriepie's Books ::..: #50 The Mysteries by Lisa Tuttle
#50 The Mysteries by Lisa Tuttle. My Rating: 7 out of 10 stars Ian Kennedy is a private investigator in England, who's been hired by Laura Lensky to find ...
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CIAR CULLEN Exotic Romances and Fantasies: Now Reading: The ...
The Mysteries, by Lisa Tuttle (the first I've read of hers) is stunning. Surprising. Outstanding. Compelling. It will either inspire you to become a better ...
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Southwest Public Libraries: New and Notable Fiction
The Mysteries, The Mysteries Lisa Tuttle From award-winning author Lisa Tuttle comes a riveting novel that combines the contemporary story of one man's ...
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Book Club Choices - First Book - Realms of Fantasy :: Community Forums
The Mysteries by Lisa Tuttle, 1, 25.00%. Uncle Remus- The Complete Tales by Julius Lester, 0, 0%. Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin, 2, 50.00% ...
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Vol. 11 #1
World of Faerie/ Detection The Mysteries Tuttle, Lisa Spectra 0553382969 2005. pi Ian Kennedy is an ex-patriot American living in London and specializing in ...
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News
The last two years saw the publication of two new Lisa Tuttle books, MY DEATH and THE MYSTERIES. The most recent releases are paperback editions of THE ...
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What's New at The Green Man Review -- Sunday, the 26th of March, 2006
Faith also looked at Lisa Tuttle's The Mysteries, a fantasy novel with a mystery at its ... As The Mysteries starts, Ian is about 40 and still confused. ...
www.greenmanreview.com/ archives/ 2006/ old03262006.html

Science Fiction Weekly Interview
ondering the notion of fairies, missing persons and the slippery slopes of the human heart makes The Mysteries, Lisa Tuttle's first adult fantasy novel ...
www.scifi.com/ sfw/ issue416/ interview.html

Locus Online: Claude Lalumière on the Best of 2005
The Mysteries, by Lisa Tuttle (Bantam Spectra) ... The Mysteries is the story of Ian Kennedy, a US expat, now living in England as a private detective ...
www.locusmag.com/ 2006/ Features/ Lalumiere_BestOf2005.html

About the author (2005)

Lisa Tuttle was born and raised in Houston, Texas, won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1974, and now lives with her husband and daughter on the west coast of Scotland. Her first novel, Windhaven, was written with George R. R. Martin. Other novels include Lost Futures, which was short-listed for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and The Pillow Friend.


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TitleThe Mysteries
AuthorLisa Tuttle
PublisherRandom House Digital, Inc., 2005
ISBN0553901281, 9780553901283
Length321 pages
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