But this story is just as much about Celine's past and what her parents did and didn't do to and for her.
The events surrounding the missing father is very interesting and it gets more interesting as we realize just how dangerous this case may be.
She has been on both sides of being left and of leaving and that has driven her desire to focus on missing person cases her entire career. It stirs such memories for her and it stirs guilt. But when Gabriela asks Celine to find her father, a man who has been declared dead due to a bear attack, but whose body was never found, Celine can't let this case pass her by. Within a short time, she watched the Twin Towers fall and also watched her sisters die, and her grief is unbearable. Until a new client shows up and intrigues Celine with her story of a missing father, Celine has given up and is thinking of taking her late sister's stash of morphine and ending her grief. They can communicate without speaking, know what the other is thinking without using words, and they love and appreciate the quirks and routines of the other. At some point, Celine says she isn't the Sherlock of the team but instead, she is the Watson to Pete's Sherlock. The pair are so different but they compliment each other so well. Her husband, Pete, is older than Celine but he's sharp, too. Celine is petite, regal, beautiful even at 68, and her mind is sharp. It would be a mistake to think this story about Celine, a 68 year old private investigator with emphysema, is some kind of cozy mystery. Now, as Celine and her partner head to Yellowstone National Park, investigating a trail gone cold, it becomes clear that they are being followed-that this is a case someone desperately wants to keep closed.Ĭombining the exquisite plotting and gorgeous evocation of nature that have become his hallmark, with a wildly engrossing story of family, privilege, and childhood loss, Peter Heller gives us his finest work to date.Ĭeline: A Novel by Peter Heller, Kimberly Farr (Narrator) He was assumed to have died from a grizzly mauling, but his body was never found. Gabriela's father was a photographer who went missing on the border of Montana and Wyoming. But when a young woman, Gabriela, asks for her help, a world of mystery and sorrow opens up. Working out of her jewel box of an apartment at the base of the Brooklyn Bridge, Celine has made a career of tracking down missing persons, and she has a better record at it than the FBI. From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars and The Painter, a luminous, masterful novel of suspense-the story of Celine, an elegant, aristocratic private eye who specializes in reuniting families, trying to make amends for a loss in her own past.
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