The Lace Reader

My name is Towner Whitney, No, Thats not exactly true. My real first name is Sophya. Never believe me. I lie all the time... Towner Whitney, the self-confessed unreliable narrator of THE LACE READER, hails from a family of Salem women who can read the future in the patterns in lace, and who have guarded a history of secrets going back generations, but the disappearance of two women brings Towner home to Salem and the truth about the death of her twin sister to light. THE LACE READER is a mesmerizing, tale which spirals into a world of secrets, confused identities, lies and half-truths where the reader quickly finds its nearly impossible to separate fact from fiction, but as Towner Whitney points out early on in the novel, "There are no accidents". Barry creates brain-teaser puzzles for Smart Games and she drew upon this talent in the construction of THE LACE READER.

My name is Towner Whitney, No, Thats not exactly true. My real first name is Sophya. Never believe me. I lie all the time... Towner Whitney, the self-confessed unreliable narrator of THE LACE READER, hails from a family of Salem women who can read the future in the patterns in lace, and who have guarded a history of secrets going back generations, but the disappearance of two women brings Towner home to Salem and the truth about the death of her twin sister to light. THE LACE READER is a mesmerizing, tale which spirals into a world of secrets, confused identities, lies and half-truths where the reader quickly finds its nearly impossible to separate fact from fiction, but as Towner Whitney points out early on in the novel, "There are no accidents". Barry creates brain-teaser puzzles for Smart Games and she drew upon this talent in the construction of THE LACE READER.