The Death Chamber
Calvary Gaol, standing bleak and forbidding on the Cumbrian hillside, exerts a curious influence over Georgina Grey. Her family's history is closely bound up in the penitentiary’s dark and terrible past. Television presenter Chad Ingram is fascinated by Calvary as well. He plans to conduct a new...
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Calvary Gaol, standing bleak and forbidding on the Cumbrian hillside, exerts a curious influence over Georgina Grey. Her family's history is closely bound up in the penitentiary’s dark and terrible past. Television presenter Chad Ingram is fascinated by Calvary as well. He plans to conduct a new experiment in the long-vacant structure within the brooding desolation of the old execution chamber. Chad's experiment and Georgina's curiosity, however, will have horrifying consequences. Someone is dead set on suppressing the truth of Calvary, and is willing to go to any lengths to ensure that its shocking past remains buried.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781416522232 (1416522239)
Publish date: May 1st 2009
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Pages no: 547
Edition language: English
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...
After reading Spider Light I found The Death Chamber a little flat, but I still enjoyed it. I liked the way people were connected to each other in various ways. It left you curious as to how it would all pan out. Again Rayne runs her novel with paralleling stories that are connected to one another, ...
I really liked this one! It was very atmospheric with some great twist and turns that had me guessing until the end. I am looking forward to reading more by this author.
This book started out a little confusing with four different stories that changed decades with each chapter. But by the middle of the book it all started to make sense of who was who and why they were where they were in these different times. It had a lot of twists to the plot and an ending that mad...
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