“If Virginia Andrews makes you shiver, Diane Guest will make you scream…”
“In the cold, clear moonlight surrounding the gardens of Clairemont, someone, something, is out for a midnight prowl…
“When Gillian Norlund learns of her half-brother Robin’s request to reunite her with her father, she returns to Clairemont with some reluctance, for it is a house of unhappy memories: the place where Gillian’s mother Claire met a horrifying and untimely death, and where Gillian herself experienced a shattering rejection by her family.
“Now Gillian is grown up, with a loving husband and Daisy and Will, her adorable eleven-year-old twins. By her reckoning, there’s nothing to lose by returning to Clairmont – so why is she so scared?
“When the family arrive at the house, they find a mansion infused with a sense of trauma and fear; the age-old disturbances are buried, but not forgotten. Gillian’s younger sister, Amanda, is psychotic and obsessive; her half-brother Robin alternately aloof or friendly; and the twins are clearly terrified of something – yet they won’t confess their troubles to Gillian. Only Robin’s wife Lenore seems ever cheery and optimistic, and that is peculiar in itself.
“Something, somewhere is casting terror over Clairmont – a terror which only Gillian can dispel, yet which threatens her, more than any other, with a vengeful, violent death…”
Oh, scary…well, not so much...at all. Predictable but written well enough. Was expecting a lot from a subheading stating, “If Virginia Andrews makes you shiver, Diane Guest will make you scream…” The closest this came to Virginia Andrews, was having her name on the cover.
All in all, it was a simple ghost story…predictable or not, I didn’t get who “done-it” until the end, but if I’d read the whole the blurb on the back, it jumps out at you.
And if I was that husband, the marriage wouldn’t have lasted long, I would bloody hell want to know…but I noisy.
Bring on a book with Amanda as the main character…she was fun...I do like the crazies.
Not likely to read again…anyone want?
This women was idolised before junk food, inactive lifestyle and TV turned curvy into obese. And I'm sure she did a shit more than thirty minutes of exercise a day and ate more than the recommended serves of fruit and vegetables and less red meat.