The Shards Author Surname:Easton

The Shards Author Surname:EastonLA, 1981. Buckley College in heat. 17 year old Bret is a senior at the exclusive Buckley prep school when a new student arrives with a mysterious past. Robert Mallory is bright, handsome, charismatic, and shielding a secret from Bret and his friends, even as he becomes a part of their tightly knit circle. Bret's obsession with Mallory is equalled only by his increasingly unsettling preoccupation with The Trawler, a serial killer on the loose who seems

Her death was ruled a suicide after a slapdash investigation

But he's just met a woman and wants to claw his way out of the pit

tracing his steps from an illustrious brothel to an Englishman's mansion

a hidden painting scandalously depicting Maria de Medici

heartfelt memoirs

and enter the dark

the Campions are drawn into a fiendish web of espionage as the Cold War comes chillingly close to home

When Kolya moves into a new flat in Kiev

one of the guards is convicted of murder and sent to prison

As the city's rescue services and media outlets respond

the emblem of the Jacobites

capable of moving undetected