He doesn’t even discuss the current difficult situation. Meanwhile, Sandrine waits for Langlois to tell her she must go… but oddly he doesn’t. Langlois seems decidedly less-than-thrilled at the news that his wife may be alive, but Caroline’s parents are convinced that their daughter has been found and so they drive to meet this mystery woman. Caroline has no memory of who she is, can’t even remember her name, or she ended up naked in Italy while her clothes, covered in diesel fuel, ended up in a field near her home. When the novel opens, Sandrine’s happiness is about to pulled away from her as it seems that Caroline has been found, an amnesiac, in Italy. Of course for the reader, there are already alarm bells, but Sandrine, whose horrible life has left her emotionally scarred, doesn’t pick up on the clues. And so Sandrine spends the afternoon walking in the forest with Langlois and Matthias while Langlois askes Sandrine about her work, her life, her (lack of ) friends and her interests.

Unlike other men who have only certain animalistic ways of looking at her, Langlois smiles at Sandrine. This struck Sandrine to the core, and so when an opportunity arose to join the “ white walk” looking for the missing wife, Sandrine volunteered.Īs Caroline’s grief-stricken parents hand out flyers with their daughter’s pictures, Sandrine sees Langlois and offers her support. Caroline’s husband made an appeal for information about his wife on the television, and during the appeal, he started to cry. Sandrine met Langlois after seeing the news that his wife, Caroline, had gone missing while out on a run in the forest. She now lives a quiet, domestic life with Monsieur Langlois and his young son Matthias. Ironically, her happiness is born in tragedy. In Loiuse Mey’s novel, The Second Woman, Sandrine is happy for the first time in her life. Following clues contained in a cryptic nineteenth-century book of sonnets, Lizzy and Diesel tear through Boston catacombs, government buildings, and multimillion-dollar residences, leaving a trail of robbed graves, public disturbances, and spontaneous seduction.“She remembers watching her grandmother retreat from the world in the same way, adrift somewhere far out at sea, her body still present, but her gaze more and more distant.” When Harvard University English professor and dyed-in-the-wool romantic Gilbert Reedy is mysteriously murdered and thrown off his fourth-floor balcony, Lizzy and Diesel take up his twenty-year quest for the Luxuria Stone, an ancient relic believed by some to be infused with the power of lust. Janet Evanovich, #1 New York Times mega-bestselling author, is back and better than ever, proving that when it comes to hunting down bad guys and hidden treasure, the real fun is in the chase.

A lizzy and diesel novel