Property of a Lady
A house with a sinister past – and a grisly power - When Michael Flint is asked by American friends to look over an old Shropshire house they have unexpectedly inherited, he is reluctant to leave the quiet of his Oxford study. But when he sees Charect House, its uncanny echoes from the past...
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A house with a sinister past – and a grisly power - When Michael Flint is asked by American friends to look over an old Shropshire house they have unexpectedly inherited, he is reluctant to leave the quiet of his Oxford study. But when he sees Charect House, its uncanny echoes from the past fascinate him – even though it has such a sinister reputation that no one has lived there for almost a century. But it’s not until Michael meets the young widow, Nell West, that the menace within the house wakes . . .
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780727880284 (0727880284)
ASIN: 727880284
Publish date: July 1st 2011
Publisher: Severn House Publishers
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Series: Nell West/Michael Flint (#1)
A house with a sinister past – and a grisly power - When Michael Flint is asked by American friends to look over an old Shropshire house they have unexpectedly inherited, he is reluctant to leave the quiet of his Oxford study. But when he sees Charect House, its uncanny echoes from the past fascinat...
I've really enjoyed most of Sarah Rayne's other books, but I found this one pretty pedestrian and, while at least it wasn't predictable, I didn't think that it really held together that well.One unfortunate thing that presumably wasn't the author's fault was the fact that she named one of her charac...