Originally published under the name Leigh Nichols.
I first read this book in 1995 and loved it. I hadn’t read it since and was a little afraid to because sometimes the book you loved so much several decades ago just doesn’t do anything for you when you read it again. Not this book! It is a thrilling ride and it is set in my favourite city, Kyoto.
Joanna Rand is a nightclub owner in Kyoto, Japan. She studied Asian languages and has made a home in Japan for over a decade. She’s very well settled in and then American PI Alex Hunter recognises her from an old case. According to him, she’s not Joanna Rand, but a woman who went missing 12 years ago; the daughter of a US senator.
The two fall in love, and try to find out whether Joanna really is Lisa. And who is the man with the mechanical hand who haunts Joanna’s nightmares? When Joanna’s best friend Mariko’s uncle, a psychiatrist, hypnotises Joanna for the answers to the questions, more questions arise. What has happened in Joanna’s past?
Read for the PopSugar Reading Challenge 2024.
Prompt 13: A book originally published under a pen name.
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
