I've read a few other books by Diane Chamberlain. This one wasn't bad, but there was a major plot hole that bugged me.
Morgan is in prison for driving while under the influence and crippling a young woman. She is visited by the daughter of a famous artist, Jesse Williams, who recently passed away, and her attorney. Jesse stated in his will that he wanted his new art gallery to open in Edenton, North Carolina with an old mural painted by an artist named Anna Dale restored, and he wanted Morgan to do the restoration. Morgan is amazed that Jesse knew who she was, and also knows she's not up to the task or restoring a mural, she never even finished art school. But it's a way out of prison, so Morgan takes it. The story is told in alternating points of view between Morgan in the present and Anna in 1940 as she was painting the mural.
Here's the thing that bugged me: Morgan is naturally curious about Anna, who supposedly lost her mind while painting the mural and then vanished off the earth. She goes to the library repeatedly to look for Anna in the newspapers and finds nothing. Then, in Anna's sections, we find out she murdered a man in self-defense and went on the run. While hiding out, she learns that she's been "front page news" for over a month. Why didn't Morgan run across *that* information when she was searching the newspaper? I know, it's a minor thing, but it would have been easy enough to not have Morgan go look at the newspaper if you wanted to hold back that plot twist until it happened.
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