The Invisible Ones

By Stef Penney
(Wheeler Publishing, Hardcover, Large Print, 9781410445285, 635pp.)

Publication Date: February 2012

Other Editions of This Title: Hardcover, Paperback, Hardcover

Categories: Mystery & Detective - General, Literary

Selected by Indie Booksellers for the January 2012 Indie Next List

“Penney delves deep into the Ronany world in this story of the search for a Gypsy woman who has disappeared. As the detective who seeks her discovers, each revelation leads to even more questions. His narrative alternates with that of a young boy to provide contrasting and conflicting perspectives that increase the tension and mirror the intricacies of the unique world being portrayed. Penny succeeds in both exposing myths and crafting a compelling mystery in this satisfying read.”

-- Bill Cusumano, Nicola's Books, Ann Arbor, MI

Description

Small-time private investigator Ray Lovell veers between paralysis and delirium in a hospital bed. But before the accident that landed him there, he'd been hired to find Rose Janko, the wife of a charismatic son of a traveling Gypsy family, who went missing seven years earlier. Half Romany himself, Ray is well aware that he's been chosen more for his blood than his investigative skills. Still, he's surprised by the intense hostility he encounters from the Jankos, who haven't had an easy past. Touched by tragedy, they're either cursed or hiding a terrible secret-whose discovery Ray can't help suspecting is connected to Rose's disappearance. . . .

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