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It's often said, but usually not with such eloquence, that the one thing you can't outrun is you. In LET THE SHADOWS FALL BEHIND YOU Kathy-Diane Leveille writes with passion and assurance of a woman who risks sacrificing far too much to try to erase the things she knows are true.
"LET THE SHADOWS FALL BEHIND YOU is a haunting story of disappearance and loss and, ultimately, of redemption. Weaving together a world of family loyalties and family lies, of broken bonds and of those that endure, it combines the nuance of poetry with all the suspense of a thriller."
-Nino Ricci, Author of The Origin of Species, Winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction
If someone you love disappeared...how far would you go to forget? Hardcover Edition (Kunati Books 2009)
When Brannagh’s boyfriend, Nikki, disappears on a bird count up north, she returns to the east coast for a reunion of the childhood club Tuatha-de-Dananns.
Brannagh stays at her Grandmother’s cottage by the woods where her mother was murdered many years ago. As Brannagh struggles to solve the mystery of Nikki’s vanishing, she uncovers the secrets behind the most startling disappearance of all.
"A taut psychological thriller with more than enough mystery and rich characterization to keep us mesmerized...." -Reader's Respite
This book is kind of a "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" for grownups. -Night Owl Romance
PURCHASE Kathy-Diane's Books:
AMAZON U.S.
AMAZON Canada
AMAZON UK
BARNES AND NOBLE
W. H. SMITH
WATERSTONES
INDIGO/CHAPTERS/COLES
Praise for LET THE SHADOWS FALL BEHIND YOU:
It's the quality of the writing that makes the read worthwhile...A very promising debut.
www.reviewingtheevidence.com
"Leveille is brilliant when it comes to building suspense. She drops little bombs, then waits several pages to spell it all out, which had me burning through the pages like crazy to find out what happens." -Diary of an Eccentric
"A murder, a past still preying upon the souls of those involved, is always an unwelcome and intrusive guest. LET THE SHADOWS FALL BEHIND YOU tells that chronicle with poignancy, wistful descriptions of small town life and punchy characterizations that expose hard truths. Sadly rich and beautiful writing."-Don Graves CANADIAN MYSTERIES The Hamilton Spectator.
LET THE SHADOWS FALL BEHIND YOU (Paperback edition)
Welcome! Thanks to all the kind readers who took the time to let me know how much they enjoyed my first book Roads Unravelling. I hope you love the characters in my new novel Let the Shadows Fall Behind You every bit as much. I feel as if the members of the childhood all-girl club Tuatha-de Dananns are family: Brannagh, Annie, Diane and Tish.
Happy reading,
Kathy-Diane
Contact shadowsfall@kathy-dianeleveille.com
"Brannagh Maloney had lived with disappearances all her life. They were as familiar to her as the changing of the Fundy Tides. People who disappeared left cast-off shadows of themselves, marky tremblings that slunk out of corners on drizzly autumn afternoons.."
-LET THE SHADOWS FALL BEHIND YOU
PRAISE FOR "ROADS UNRAVELLING":
Her settings and characters—their hopes and fears, verbal and behavioral ticks, even their smells—are keenly observed and full of sensual presence. -The Globe and Mail
Roads Unravelling is a winding highway of quiet, still surfaces and yawning depths. Patrolling the flow are gape-jawed monsters and small glimmering pearls of real beauty. -The
Dive into these stories, let their current take you.
A wise and stirring debut. Leveille's writing sings of heartbreak and redemption and the wicked dancing moments in between. -Carol Bruneau, author of Purple For Sky
Kathy-Diane Leveille portrays her travelling companions with clarity and insight. Her fiction is absorbing. Roads Unravelling is a great piece of Canadian literature. -Lesley Choyce Author of Seven Ravens: Two summers by the Sea
