Surrounded by ghosts of the past, he can t help but think of Helen his wife. Helen Pendergast had nursed a secret obsession with the famed naturalist-painter John James Audubon, in particular a long-lost painting of his known as the Black Frame. FBI Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast is visiting the old family home in Louisiana.
It is a journey that sends him deep into her past where he learns much that Helen herself had wished to keep hidden. With Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta's assistance, Pendergast embarks on a quest to uncover the mystery of his wife's murder. Who could have wanted Helen dead.and why? But now, Pendergast learns that her rifle-her only protection from the beast-had been deliberately loaded with blanks. Helen had been mauled by an unusually large and vicious lion while they were big game hunting in Africa.
At the old family manse in Louisiana, Special Agent Pendergast is putting to rest long-ignored possessions reminiscent of his wife Helen's tragic death, only to make a stunning-and dreadful-discovery.
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