A Long Time Dead - Lee, Barbara

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Résumé :
While recovering from illness, Scarlett Green discovers a murder took place at a house in Tooting, where she once lived. Although the murder was thirty years earlier, she remembers her life there in vivid detail, and shares her information with the police. On returning to work she learns she is to be made redundant. She decides, for her own satisfaction, to see what she can find out about the murder. But her investigation is not without its dangers, including a brick thrown through her window and a car coming towards her at speed. In addition, two men come into her life; the suave, handsome detective inspector who is leading the investigation, and an inept private detective, hired by the murder victim's parents.As she thinks back to her late teens, Scarlett remembers friendship, her first job, bereavement and the bittersweet nature of her first love. Now the past impinges on the present and she fears for her safety and that of those closest to her.

Biographie:
About the author Just twenty-seven days after the Peace Treaty was signed to end WWII, Barbara Lee was born in a small Texas town that had been home to Fort Wolters, an Army infantry base. Her parents had lived during both of the 'Big Wars and were part of the post-war culture that didn't talk about the wars. The Golden Age emerged, and with it a new shift in advertising that promoted an idealized, picture-perfect life. Talk about war, loss, or anything sad became taboo. It would be several decades and wars later before the results of these unrealistic presentations of 'normal' life would find its tipping point and a breakdown in society and governmental denial followed. Eventually, governments began offering counseling for the millions of veterans suffering from war-induced PTSD. Grief counseling began to be more recognized and expanded into the general population. Barbara grew up during the era of 'social silence' about loss and grief, and only when her son died in an auto accident in 1995, did she reach out to a grief counselor. Through conversations with her therapist, she began the long process of healing not only that loss, but also realized she had a lifetime of other losses that she had never addressed. She also came to understand that loss is not only experienced emotionally and physically, but at its core it is spiritual. She began to understand that the Soul has a garden, and that the soul's garden has seasons, just like the gardens we tend in our yards....

Sommaire:
About the author Just twenty-seven days after the Peace Treaty was signed to end WWII, Barbara Lee was born in a small Texas town that had been home to Fort Wolters, an Army infantry base. Her parents had lived during both of the 'Big Wars and were part of the post-war culture that didn't talk about the wars. The Golden Age emerged, and with it a new shift in advertising that promoted an idealized, picture-perfect life. Talk about war, loss, or anything sad became taboo. It would be several decades and wars later before the results of these unrealistic presentations of 'normal' life would find its tipping point and a breakdown in society and governmental denial followed. Eventually, governments began offering counseling for the millions of veterans suffering from war-induced PTSD. Grief counseling began to be more recognized and expanded into the general population. Barbara grew up during the era of 'social silence' about loss and grief, and only when her son died in an auto accident in 1995, did she reach out to a grief counselor. Through conversations with her therapist, she began the long process of healing not only that loss, but also realized she had a lifetime of other losses that she had never addressed. She also came to understand that loss is not only experienced emotionally and physically, but at its core it is spiritual. She began to understand that the Soul has a garden, and that the soul's garden has seasons, just like the gardens we tend in our yards....