Keeping Secrets

From the publishers of Sebastian Faulks and Douglas Kennedy, a new writer with the same storytelling strengths and bestseller potential.It was his hideout, but now he did not feel safe at all.The birds had suddenly gone quiet, and the boy was certain the man was in the woods below him. And then a voice fractured the unnatural hush. “I know you’re in there.”A young boy is hiding for his life, having witnessed a brutal murder. He knows that even if he survives, his days on his uncle’s California apple farm are gone forever.Thirty years later, Jack Renoir makes his living discovering other people’s secrets, while making sure he keeps his own. But when Kate Palmer, an English oil consultant, walks into Jack’s San Francisco office, his carefully constructed life is turned upside down. As his defenses dissolve, he agrees to try a new life with her in England. But the reappearance of Kate’s old boyfriend disturbs his newfound happiness, as does Kate’s apparent involvement in a high-tech trading scam. Old habits die hard, and Renoir is drawn into a murky world he thought he had left behind for good. Highly suspenseful, Andrew Rosenheim’s new novel is a complex love story in which two secret worlds collide.