More Than Sorrow, Vicki Delany
More Than Sorrow, Vicki Delany
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More Than Sorrow
A Mystery

Author: Vicki Delany

Narrator: Carrington MacDuffie

Unabridged: 9 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/04/2012

Synopsis

Hannah Manning was once an internationally renowned journalist and war correspondent; today she's a woman suffering from a traumatic brain injury. Unable to read, unable to concentrate, full of pain, lost and confused, and haunted by her memories, Hannah goes to Ontario to her sister's small-scale vegetable farm to recover. As summer settles on the farm, she finds comfort in the soft rolling hills and neat fields as well as friendship in the company of Hila Popalzai, an Afghan woman also traumatized by war. But Hannah experiences strange visions of a woman emerging from the icy-cold mist. Is the woman real or the product of her damaged brain? Which would be worse? Then Hila disappears. And when Hannah cannot account for her time-not even to herself-old enemies begin to circle. In this modern Gothic novel of heart-wrenching suspense, past and present merge into a terrifying threat to the only thing Hannah still holds dear: her ten-year-old niece, Lily. "Warmth and menace, past and present, are nicely balanced, with a denouement that's equally plausible and startling. This confident performance is sure to win new fans to the series."-Publishers Weekly (starred review) on Winter of Secrets

About Vicki Delany

Vicki Delany is one of Canada's most prolific and varied crime writers and a national bestseller in the US. She is currently writing four cozy mystery series: The Tea by the Sea mysteries, the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop series, the Year Round Christmas mysteries, and as Eva Gates, the Lighthouse Library series. A past president of the Crime Writers of Canada and a co-organizer of Women Killing it, a crime writing festival, her work has been nominated for the Derringer, the Bony Blithe, the Ontario Library Association Golden Oak, and the Arthur Ellis Awards. She is the recipient of the 2019 Derrick Murdoch Award for contributions to Canadian crime writing. Vicki lives and writes in bucolic Prince Edward County, Ontario.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Eric on January 18, 2015

A well written mystery that combines views of life in Prince Edward County, organic farming, a recovering journalist with a serious head injury, a disfigured Afghan woman and the strains in the marriage of her sister where she stays to recover. Good story.......more

Goodreads review by Regan on September 12, 2018

Not a favorite of mine. The ending was good. The beginning though wasn't very inspiring and I almost DNF'd it. I didn't connect to any of the characters and it seemed like the bad guys came from out of nowhere.......more

Goodreads review by Lou on August 01, 2012

It’s always a treat to find a new Delany novel, and MORE THAN SORROW again demonstrates her versatility and panache. Foreign correspondent Hannah Manning, recovering from brain injuries from an IED in Afghanistan, has retreated to her sister’s organic farm in the picturesque Prince Edward County sec......more

Goodreads review by Mary on July 15, 2014

In MORE THAN SORROW, Vicki Delany weaves together two stories, one about a Canadian reporter who suffered traumatic brain injury in an IED explosion in Afghanistan and has gone to live with her sister on an organic farm while she recuperates; the other about a long-ago resident of that same farm, a......more

Goodreads review by Tracy on April 03, 2024

I stumbled upon this book and am pleased to say that it was not easy to put down. Easy to read, interesting characters and plenty of twists and turns. I also appreciated the number of female characters that drive the story and it definitely passes the Bechdel Test. I will now seek further written by......more

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