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 may have accidentally finished the entire book in pretty much one sitting. Now, admittedly, that's not terribly uncommon for me, but still, this was a lot of fun to read once I got into it. I enjoyed the alternating viewpoints and the jumping back and forth in time. I was not expecting quite s...
Two short stories about a thief descended from a long line of thieves, attempted murder, war, and looting. Rather light-hearted. I love a clever thief story.Amazon Lending Library
I grabbed this novel from the library as a random choice.But when i started reading this novel only i realized this is not a novel that should be read as yet another novel.Despite the compelling cover image, the novel really stands out amid the creepy plot.The author's meticulous way of writing gave...
Okay, we've got the modern history of Romania under the Ceaușescus, which is grim and horrible. We've got thwarted love in the fens. We've got brave dissidents, evil party stooges, art, medicine, and the most practical and subversive nuns since the Sound of Music. Rayne is at her best showing the af...
Rayne gives the reader more than a hundred years of British history focussed on the Tarleton Music Hall. In the present the stars are a building surveyer, a theater researcher, and an enterprise devoted to promoting the history of London's music halls. As well, she gives us Victorian performers, Edw...
A fine example of a Sarah Rayne novel. My beloved MIL and I would agree that this is one of the best. The setting is a small town and a gaol where executions take place. The times are the present (circa 1997), WWI, WWII. The overarching theme is paranormal research. It's one big wibbly-wobbly ball o...
Rayne takes an incident in the past, something really, really, nasty, that not surprisingly, traumatizes the hell out of everyone involved. And then she sees what happens to those people as time passes: how do they cope, or fail to? She's pure genius at imagining horrible things that can happen to p...
Here's what I'm beginning to recognize as elements of a Rayne novel: everyone is important; everything fits together, everything is about five hundred times more complex than I first thought.I don't want to give anything away, because while it is foremost a novel of suspense, there is also a mystery...
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