The Lost Years / Mary Higgins Clark / 292 pages

What a wonderful premise for a book!!  The Lost Years refers to those years absent from biblical accounts of the life of Jesus.  After his temple lessons at the age of 12, for 18 years the Bible is silent as to Jesus's activities and whereabouts.  Biblical scholar, Jonathan Lyons, is certain he has found a letter written by Christ to Joseph of Arimathea just prior to his crucifixion.  The letter had been stolen from Vatican archives during the reign of Pope Sixtus IV in the 1500's.  Professor Lyon is murdered in his library.  Is the murderer his wife with Alzheimer's who had discovered his affair with a colleague?  This is a real page-turner fueled by one's desire to discover the contents of the letter...