Frank H. (perryfran) reviewed on 4/18/2017 + 1224 more book reviews

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I thought this Gothic ghost story was very enjoyable. It was told in a very straight forward manner and didn't have a lot of surprises but it was fun to read nevertheless. The story is about Hallie James who is living outside Seattle...her father in a nursing home with Alzheimer's...and believing that her mother had died in a fire. She then receives a letter that turns her world upside down. She inherits a house on an island in the Great Lakes and it turns out that her mother who recently died had found out that Hallie was alive. Hallie goes to the island and finds out that her real name is Halcyon Crane and that the house she inherits has a bleak history with several untimely deaths and a possibly ghostly haunting. The housekeeper for the estate tells Hallie the family history including encounters with a local medicine woman considered by many to be a witch. She also finds that her father had been accused of an unsolved murder that happened 30 years previously. Overall, a very atmospheric story to read on a stormy night.

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