The Last of the Stanfields

A mystery, a love story, and a search through a strange and shocking past unite two strangers in this novel of criminal family secrets by international bestselling author Marc Levy, the most widely read author alive in France today.

When London journalist Eleanor-Rigby Donovan receives an anonymous letter alluding to a crime committed by her deceased mother and a fortune waiting to be claimed, she heads to a bohemian bar on the Baltimore Harbor, where she finds a stranger with the same unsettling poison pen letter of his own.

The accusation against the mother of George-Harrison Collins also comes as a surprise. Then again, she'd never talked much about her life. Now, descending into dementia, it's unlikely she ever will. He's followed the letter's request from Quebec to Baltimore to rendezvous with a woman he never knew existed.

Coming together in the shadow of the Stanfields, a moneyed Maryland family full of unimaginable secrets, Eleanor-Rigby and George-Harrison embark on a treasure hunt. The search for the truth will take them back decades, across three generations, and to a mysterious transgression thought long buried and forgotten. And that's just the beginning.