Shade

Nina Hardy has been murdered by her childhood friend George. But her body is never found, and she remains a silent shade, watching--and retelling--the events of her life, and afterlife. Her half brother, Gregory, makes a pilgrimage home for her funeral, after some thirty years away. There he find another of their childhood friends and together they try to make sense of Nina's death and the people they all became. They retrace the story of childhood and the eventual intrusion of the outside world. And by the end the seemingly senseless crime with which the book begins is revealed in all its heartbreaking meaning. Jordan is the writer of "The Crying Game" and has written three previous novels.