Daniela Tully

Tully beautifully sculpts a mystery that plays with past and present, traversing war in Nazi Germany, to 1910’s New York, to the present day. This part-historical part-literary novel allows us a personal look into the Third Reich through a letter from a lost twin and the reminiscences of a grandmother whose memories remain trapped in an old regime.

A spellbinding mystery unravelling a century of family secrets

Hotel on Shadow Lake

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Suspenseful and compelling, Daniela Tully’s Hotel on Shadow Lake is at once an intricate mystery, an epic romance, and a Gothic family saga. When Maya was a girl in Germany, her grandmother was everything to her: teller of magical fairy tales, surrogate mother, best friend. Then, shortly after Maya’s sixteenth birthday, her grandmother disappeared without a trace, leaving Maya with only questions to fill the void. Twenty-seven years later, her grandmother’s body is found in a place she had no connection to: the Montgomery Resort in upstate New York. How did she get there? Why had she come? Desperate for answers, Maya leaves her life in Germany behind and travels to America, where she is drawn to the powerful family that owns the hotel and seemingly the rest of the town. Soon Maya is unraveling secrets that go back decades, from 1910s New York to 1930s Germany and beyond. But when she begins to find herself spinning her own lies in order to uncover the circumstances surrounding her grandmother’s death, she must decide whether her life and a chance at true love are worth risking for the truth.

A Novel

Libraire chevronnée, Maya a toujours aimé les histoires. En particulier celles que lui racontait sa grand-mère, Martha, avant de disparaître brutalement l’été de ses 16 ans. Aussi, quand la police découvre, trente ans plus tard, sa dépouille dans l’arrière-pays de New York, Maya se croit soudain l’héroïne d’un mauvais polar : que faisait sa grand-mère à des milliers de kilomètres de son Allemagne natale ? Surtout, quel secret la liait à l’hôtel Montgomerry, près duquel son corps a été retrouvé ? Pour en avoir le cœur net, Maya décide de se rendre sur place en se faisant passer pour une romancière en quête d’inspiration. Au fil des souvenirs récoltés auprès de l’étrange famille Montgomerry, se reconstitue alors la seule histoire que sa grand-mère ne lui ait jamais racontée : celle de sa propre vie... Des heures les plus sombres de l’Allemagne nazie au destin cruel d’une dynastie déchue, son enquête se transforme bientôt en une plongée vertigineuse dans le passé. Jusqu’à ce que Maya découvre, au péril de sa vie, que toute vérité n’est pas bonne à dire...

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