The Frozen Sea (A Bryn Awbrey Novel Book 3)

Description

Loretta Groombridge thinks she’s made a friend when mysterious Tikki Foy is a house guest at her employer’s house. Prof Bryn Awbrey is renowned for his cluttered home office, which Loretta is paid to organize, and his brilliance in solving cultural or literary puzzles. Tikki needs him. Something she’s found hints there is a manuscript by Franz Kafka hidden in the Venice ghetto. The possibility is tantalizing, but Loretta suspects there’s more to Tikki’s story. Her strange behaviour and the danger she plunges them into seem unwarranted; who is pushing her to do this, her library colleague, or a weird man who follows them everywhere? Loneliness, suspicion, and fear of losing her place in Bryn Awbrey’s life whirl Loretta into a spiral of distrust and disappointment. What is found in the end confounds even the professor’s logic.

The Frozen Sea is a literary adventure, a chase for treasure and truth, and an exploration of what it means to be lonely. Historical vignettes bring Kafka and his contemporaries to life, and weave together history and present-day dilemmas.