General Information
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 Title:                  The Triumph of Katie Byrne
 Author:                 Barbara Taylor Bradford
 Copyright:              2001
 Audiobook Copyright:    2001
 Genre:                  Kate Reading

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Book Description
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From Publishers Weekly
Long celebrated as a bestselling chronicler of women's lives, 
Bradford adds a mystery twist to her latest tale of romantic 
suspense. At 17, Katie Byrne and her lifelong best friends, 
Denise and Carly, share a passion to act on Broadway and plan 
to move from their mid-Connecticut town to New York after 
high school graduation. One day, Katie's early departure from 
their daily after-school acting rehearsals in Denise's uncle's 
barn saves her from a brutal attack on the other girls. 

With Denise dead and Carly in a coma, Katie fears she'll be 
the next victim, and for a time, acting loses its appeal. 
Ten years later, the murderer is yet to be found, 
Carly remains in a coma and Katie has picked up the pieces 
of her life and moved to London, studying in the Royal Academy 
of Dramatic Art. When she's offered the part of Emily Bront‰ 
in a play bound for Broadway, she realizes it's the chance of a lifetime. 
But she's apprehensive about returning to face the ghosts of her past 
and hesitates to fulfill her childhood dream without her best friends 
to share it. Bradford sets a quick pace by introducing tough police 
detective Mac MacDonald, aka Mac the Knife, and by showing how Katie 
and her family dealing with the tragedy. The second half falls off, 
however, reverting mainly to inner dialogues and Katie's doubts 
about her ability to perform on stage. A too convenient, totally 
unmotivated solution to the murder caps the curiously thin narrative, 
in which Bradford never fully renders her characters. This is a fast 
but shallow read, perhaps satisfying to Bradford's fans but not a 
significant milestone in her career.