Property of a Lady
by Sarah Rayne
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Pub Date 1 Jul 2011 | Archive Date 30 Nov 2019
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Description
Introducing Oxford don Michael Flint and antiques dealer Nell West in the first book in a haunted house thriller series.
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 . . .
Advance Praise
"An inventively plotted, goose-bumps-inducing ghost story" - Booklist
"Turns the picked-over bones of the haunted house story into something fresh and frequently terrifying" - Publishers Weekly
"Rayne delivers another intriguing tale of psychological and supernatural suspense, working the contrast between the idyllic English countryside and the dark histories of its inhabitants into a delicious tension. Fans of haunted-house fiction and psychological suspense should particularly enjoy the final twist" - Library Journal
"Rayne spins eerie yarns within yarns like a latter-day Isak Dinesen or Wilkie Collins" - Kirkus Reviews
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780727880284 |
| PRICE | US$28.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 256 |
Featured Reviews
Mallory Anne-Marie H, Reviewer
I’ve noticed before, perusing Ms. Rayne’s “psychological mysteries,” especially those which border on the actually ghostly (which is many of her novels), that Ms. Rayne exhibits the ability Henry James demonstrated in “Turn of the Screw” a full century or more earlier. “Real life,” in whichever era Ms. Rayne is weaving, is delineated with clarity, conciseness, and focus; and in places, reading a Rayne story is akin in some ways to reading in the sub-genre known as “British cosy mysteries.” So did “Turn of the Screw” appear, at the beginning, and for some time afterwards.
But horror and the Supernatural are not always best exposed by “splatterpunk.” Sometimes it is the very subtleties, the quiet approach, the soft creak of old lumber, the wind’s whistling in the attic eaves, that inspires the churning of our stomachs and the anxiety in our emotions. Sarah Rayne is utterly skilled at the subtle underpinnings, the spider’s silk that entraps the unwary venture, She is as accomplished a storyteller as Henry James in “The Turn of the Screw” and as H. H. Munro (Saki) in the inimitable classic “The Open Window.”
Danielle G, Reviewer
Thank you Net Galley and the publisher for this book.
Property of a Lady
by Sarah Rayne
I have read this book before in the past 2 year but had forgotten and requested a copy from Net Galley. This was a great book. Well written, good mystery that keeps you guessing. I would highly recommend this to anyone who likes a good mystery, ghosts or haunted house stories.
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