The Seance – A Victorian Mystery by John Harwood
Published by Vintage and out now
‘Sell the Hall unseen; burn it to the ground and plough the earth with salt, if you will; but never live there…’ London, the 1880s. A young girl grows up in a household marked by death, her father distant, her mother in perpetual mourning for the child she lost. Desperate to coax her mother back to health, Constance Langton takes her to a seance. Perhaps they will find comfort from beyond the grave. But that seance has tragic consequences.Constance is left alone, her only legacy a mysterious bequest will blight her life. So begins “The Seance”, John Harwood’s brilliant second novel, a gripping, dark mystery set in late Victorian England. It is a world of apparitions, of disappearances and unnatural phenomena, of betrayal and blackmail and black-hearted villains – and murder. For Constance’s bequest comes in two parts: a house, and a mystery. Years before a family disappeared at Wraxford Hall, a terrifying stately home near the Suffolk coast. Now Constance must find the truth behind the mystery, even at the cost of her life. Because without the truth, she is lost.
How can you not like the sound of that! Late Victorian England, a terrifying stately home and a mystery? Couldn’t sound better.
After reading your promo I looked for the book at amazon.de .To my surprise THE SEANCE is also available in GERMAN – title: "Ruf ins Jenseits. And even more surprising: The German paperback is cheaper than the English one. Normally it is the other way round.
I'm sure I replied to this! But that's weird in a good way. Their are bargains to be had sometimes