Pursued: A Maggie McKenzie Mystery
THE PLOT
Maggie McKenzie, brand new editor of the travel section of her newspaper, is on her way to England on assignment, but an inadvertent collision in the airport with a passenger running through the terminal sets off a chain of events that will nearly cost Maggie her life.
As she reviews her assignment on the plane, she discovers her boss has given her an additional assignment: see if she can find her brother – one everyone thought had died at birth.
By time she lands in Montreal, the world is in chaos with explosions in far-flung capitols of the world. Terrorists are demanding vast sums of money or more explosions will follow, with a tremendous loss of life and many world treasures. World leaders are scrambling to prevent the destruction.
How did Maggie get involved with this? And will Flynn come to her rescue as he did once before to help her solve the mystery or is he waiting until Christmas to see her again, as he promised?
ABOUT THE BOOK
Lynn says:
This story has been re-written, re-worked, and re-hashed so many times there is almost nothing left of the original in this version. I’m so sorry I left so many readers hanging for the last five years. I will never again write a book that is not completely stand alone. But you finally get to discover the ending to Maggie’s first adventure.
In 2004, I went to England and Wales on a family history research trip with two cousins and a friend. We traveled all over in a little blue station wagon cram-packed full of suitcases, computers, genealogy files and cameras. I drove for two weeks on the wrong side of the road for the first time in my life – and we survived.
We found many of the places where our ancestors had lived and died, visited the churches where they were christened, married and buried. The two weeks ended far too soon. I must go back to visit King Arthur country, and Ireland and Scotland, the home of some of my husband’s ancestors. They are beautiful countries and I hear them calling me to return.
I did not intend to put a Gothic mansion in the book. That was probably the furthest thing from my mind as I envisioned Maggie’s quest to find her siblings in England and Wales. But there it was. It needed to be there. It enriched the story in a way that surprised me. I based it on many of the old beautiful mansions that we saw there, not one particular one. But then, I’ve read and loved many Gothic mysteries and it came quite easily – just as the mansion in Emeralds. Maybe I should have been an architect instead of an author.
