An interesting book full of twist and turns; an investigative mystery with historical overtones and deep thoughts.
Tristan is a college student who has just graduated. He gets a mysterious call from a solicitor and finds out he just might be the heir to a huge fortune if he can prove his case in 7 weeks.
Having not much else to do and pulled on by the thought of big money coming his way, he takes up the challenge.
Tristan has to prove that it is his great grandmother, the lost relative, who is the link to the money and to do so he will need to follow the trail and produce evidence of the fact. The solicitors, despite their best efforts throughout the years, have not been able to do so because of mysterious circumstances. He has only 7 weeks to do this and finds out that the trail starts back in 1916 when a romance between his grandmother Imogen Soames Anderson and Ashley Walsingham began. She was a rebellious, headstrong lady of Swedish/Anglo descent and he was a famous. avid mountain climber and the man with the original money.
The trail to find the proof leads Tristan back to those early years and travels to Sweden and France and Iceland and the story of life at the time.
On the way history seems to repeats itself and Tristan falls for a young French girl who questions his dedication to "finding the money" and is it what he really is seeking in life.
I enjoyed this book but found it hard going at times.
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