Paris, 1940; Annabel Marceau is the mother of Colette and her younger sister Liliane. For centuries, Annabel and Colette are jewel thieves. They steal from people who are on the wrong side of life, like the Nazi's, and the funds of the jewels are for the support of the French resistance. But in 1942, everything went wrong. Annabel was arrested by the Nazi's and Liliane went missing in the chaos of the violent house raid and together with her, exquisite diamond bracelet sewn into the hem of her nightgown for safekeeping went missing too. Annabel was executed by the Germans, and Liliane was thrown into the seine, as neighbours saw her nightgown floating in it. Colette is devastated and heartbroken by the loss of her mother and sister, and later on, the bond with her father breaks too.
Seventy years later, when she lives in Boston, Colette still steals jewels and diamonds from the people who are on the wrong side of life, and her funds that she raised with has resulted in a Holocaust Organisation in Boston. But her life changes when the long lost missing bracelet that was sewed in Liliane's nightgown shows up in a museum exhibit in Boston. Together with her best friend lawyer Aviva, she goes on a search how the bracelet landed in the museum, who owned it before it landed there? Was its the German who killed her sister and her mother? Or is it someone else? With this search her past comes up again, and this leads to a very thrilling and unexpected unraveling in the end..
The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau is a very good new novel by Kristin Harmel. I have read most of her previous novels who, as also this one, are also set in Paris during World War II. The story is again a beautiful, thrilling and sad one, and is has everything in it to be a great new novel. I absolutely loved both the storyline and the characters. As in her other books, the cruelty and horror of the war where again portrayed very realistic, and truly give you the cold chills at many points, and the jewel stealing moments of Colette kept you at the edge of your seat. And the final parts of the book truly where very emotional, as Colette finds out what happened to Liliane after so many year, and I truly didn't expect this ending, but it was just the perfectly right ending!
Overall, this is a perfect new novel by Kristin Harmel that I truly recommend reading!
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