Cork Lucy Hounsom 'What the River Knows has

'What the River Knows has it all: page-turning mystery

tough Los Angeles FBI agents Jack Harper and Oscar Hidalgo breathe sighs of relief after violent diamond smuggler Karl Steinbach is finally arrested in a complex sting

has arrived in Istanbul determined to uncover a lost Byzantine treasure

and a woman adept in the martial arts

When she falls in love with an Outsider

Cork Lucy Hounsom 'What the River Knows has"My name is Lily Campendonc. A long time ago I used to live in Lisbon. . . ." So begins Cork, in which a pragmatic young British widow, proprietor of a cork processing factory, embarks on an affair with her husband's former office manager, Her lover will meet only once a year, and insists that their encounters be pseudonymous masquerades. For him, this role playing is essential: ''You see, because I am nothing, I can imagine anything. . . . If I were