Review: Jaime Lynde searches for her father
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 8, 2012
Beishir, Norma. The Unicorn's Daughter. 2nd ed. Beishir Books, 2011. Originally published by Berkley Publishing under the title A Time for Legends 1990.Jaime Victoria Lynde, photojournalist, sits at dinner tracing her initials on a napkin. The same initials that identify her father. Her mother committed suicide when she was very young, and nineteen years ago her father left on a business trip, and she never heard from him again. She feels that her life has been covered over with a thick blanket of lies and deceit.Jaime starts to unravel the conundrum and people start dying and she is being followed everywhere. Her father worked with the French Resistance as a part of the OSS and then after the war, he becomes an agent for the CIA. Jaime is convinced that regardless of what she is told that her father is still alive.She travels a world away from the boarding school and silver spoon life she has known as she seeks out those who knew her father best, The Minotaur, The Pagan... She is the Unicorn's daughter and even falling in love and falling in bed cannot keep her from turning every stone until the truth is uncovered.Norma Beishir is the author of sixteen novels under her own name and her pseudonyms Toni Collins, Scarlett Martin, and Robin Collins. In 2008 she turned to self-publishing with Chasing the Wind that was "too spiritual for the mainstream, too mainstream for the Christian market." Then, when the rights became available to her for A Time of Legends, she changed the title and the cover which had long dissatisfied her.The plot is straightforward, but the fully fleshed characters and fast-paced action keep the pages turning. The sex is slow simmer but on stage, the violence is off-stage and the language is mild when compared to most espionage thrillers. Rating PG13-SLV