num_pages: 12
description: From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars and The Painter a luminous masterful novel of suspense--the story of Celine an elegant aristocratic private eye who specializes in reuniting families trying to make amends for a loss in her own past.Working out of her jewel box of an apartment at the base of the Brooklyn Bridge Celine has made a career of tracking down missing persons and she has a better record at it than the FBI. But when a young woman Gabriela asks for her help a world of mystery and sorrow opens up. Gabriela's father was a photographer who went missing on the border of Montana and Wyoming. He was assumed to have died from a grizzly mauling but his body was never found. Now as Celine and her partner head to Yellowstone National Park investigating a trail gone cold it becomes clear that they are being followed--that this is a case someone desperately wants to keep closed.Combining the exquisite plotting and gorgeous evocation of nature that have become his hallmark with a wildly engrossing story of family privilege and childhood loss Peter Heller gives us his finest work to date.
language: English
title: Celine
publisher: Books on Tape