Publisher's Synopsis
Paris 1977: Queen of French cinema Madeleine Marvell comes to lunch and reveals that schoolgirl Charlottes whole life is based on a lie. She tells the girl to ask her father about the Amazone. Neither parent will explain. Charlotte is determined to uncover the truth.Who is the Amazon? Why did she die?A doctor and a crippled QC in a Cornish village, an academic in London, Resistance fighters in World War II, filmstars of the fifties, and a Michelin-starred restaurant - all are entangled in this tale of love and loss, jealousy and betrayal.Then Charlotte finds evidence of murder...
