The Stranger House
by Reginald Hill
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Author: Reginald HillEdition: Hardcover
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2005-10-01
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 480
Publisher: BCA
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Book Review: Not a Ghost of a Chance
Summary: 1 Stars
Hard to believe that the creator of Dalziel and Pascoe could come up with this piece of dreck. At best this is a book for extremely credulous mid-adolescent readers, not adults. But even then....Neither of the central characters are especially attractive. One is an obnoxious young math whizz and logician who seems always to have just the right kind of knowledge to push the implausible story along. The other is a former seminarian who communes with the spirits of long dead relatives and whatever other ghosts who happen to be in the neighbourhood. Add in an English village full of stock "colourful" characters, and a running time of well over 500 none too action-packed pages, and you end up with what this book is: a recipe for disaster.
Summary of The Stranger House
This is a stunning psychological thriller set in Cumbria past and present, from the award-winning author of the "Dalziel and Pascoe" series. They came to the Stranger House. And death followed close behind. For over 500 years, the Stranger House has stood in the village of Illthwaite, offering refuge to all manner of travellers. People like Sam Flood, a brilliant young Australian mathematician, who believes that anything that can't be explained by maths isn't worth explaining. And Miguel Madero, a Spanish historian in flight from a priests' seminary, who sees ghosts. Sam is an experienced young woman, Mig a 26-year-old virgin. But both want to dig up bits of the past that some people would rather keep buried. As they uncover intertwining tales of murder, betrayal and love, they must put aside their differences in order to uncover the dark mysteries at the heart of this ancient place!Horror Books
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