The Sound of Red Returning by Sue Duffy

Paperback: 288 pages

Publisher: Kregel Publications (December 9, 2011)

ISBN-10: 0825425743

ISBN-13: 978-0825425745

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After losing everyone she loves, concert pianist Liesl Bower has nowhere to go but to escape into her music. Searching for the peace she usually finds in her concertos and sonatas, Liesl can’t shake the feeling that she is being haunted by her past . . . and by someone following her. When she spots a familiar and eerie face in the audience of a concert she’s giving for the president in Washington, DC, the scariest day of her life comes back to her with a flash. It has been fifteen years since Liesl watched her beloved Harvard music mentor assaulted on a dark night in Moscow and just as long since the CIA disclosed to her that he’d been spying for Russia. She had seen that man--that eerie face--the night Professor Devoe was attacked. And now he’s back--and coming for her.


On the run and struggling to rely on the protection of CIA agent Ava Mullins and handsome newspaper reporter Cade O’Brien, Liesl learns she is the prey of an underground cell of Russian KGB agents determined to restore their country to its former Soviet might. But what she doesn’t know is that she is in possession of something--a piece of sheet music--that Russian intelligence is now frantic to find. Inside that music is a secret code, the hidden transcriptions of her deceased mentor, that clearly identify a Russian mole operating inside Israel’s Department of Defense, a mole with enough power and access to execute a daring assassination that no one would see coming.


Caught in a deadly conflict between American and Russian undercover agents, this innocent young pianist is just trying to survive her own personal trauma. Through it all, Liesl must learn that no matter how dark her world grows or how fiercely her enemies pursue her, God is still in control--if only she can yield herself to His grace. 

“Intrigue and suspense come together in an incredible story of love and betrayal, commitment and courage, power and danger… and a God who controls it all.” ~ Steve Brown, Founder/President of Key Life, Host of Steve Brown Etc

Sue Duffy is back with a brand new three book series, Red Returning. The first release, The Sound of Red Returning Liesl Bower currently lives in Georgetown. Growing up in Charleston, South Carolina, we learn of her interesting past and now present day, she is a famous concert pianist eventually realizing that she has been associated with a close mentor who happened to be a double agent for the Soviet Union and the US.

When Liesl witnesses the horrific murder of her friend and mentor in Moscow, she turns to her music to escape. One day while picking up some sheet music, she learns that her life is in extreme danger. This piece of sheet music is partly written in code and the now the KGB and CIA are after her.

The action and suspense continues when she recognizes an eerie face (flashback to 15 years ago) in the audience of a concert she’s giving for the U.S. President.  Can Liesl survive this powerful force weaving a plot of murder and world upheaval?

About the Author..

Sue Duffy is an award-winning writer whose work has appeared in Moody Magazine, The Presbyterian Journal, Sunday Digest, and The Christian Reader. She is the author of Mortal Wounds (Barbour, 2001) and Fatal Loyalty (Kregel, 2010). Sue has also contributed to Stories for a Woman’s Heart (Multnomah). She and her husband, Mike, have three grown children.

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