Phil and Rena

Spanning the years from 1980 to 1995In this uncertain world of passion and pain, the ambition of Marian Barnard's grown-up son, Phil, is to shape his own life, find his own dream, and to secure the lasting fulfilment so cruelly denied his parents.But when another tragedy hits his mother so needlessly, Phil decides to exact a hard revenge on the perpetrator.A seductive blend of thriller and love story, which mingles suspense, drama and romance, taking the reader on a fast-paced international tour, stopping off in London, Massachusetts, New York, Stockholm and Rome.Ghosts in Sunlight in combining a fast-paced tale involving vast sums of money, immense power, women both wounding and wounded, and a variety of credible male characters - from the enigmatic young man, Phil Gaines - to the traumatised Vietnam veteran Jimmy Overman ... an excellent book. -- BOOKS IRELAND