Bibliograph

The silence, Sarah Rayne

Type

Label

The silence, Sarah Rayne

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The silence

Oclc number

986999198

Responsibility statement

Sarah Rayne

Series statement

Nell West and Michael Flint Haunted House stories, 3Haunted House mystery, 3

Summary

Antiques dealer Nell West is valuing the contents of her late husband Brad's childhood home. Stilter House, set in the remote Derbyshire Peaks, is said to stand on haunted ground. And once there was a much older property there - a house in which the notorious Isobel Acton committed a vicious crime. In Oxford, Nell's lover Michael Flint is contacted by an elderly aunt of Brad West's, who warns him that Nell and her small daughter Beth must not spend a night in Stilter House. "Because Esmond is still there," says the aunt. "And Beth is so very like Brad ..." Then, soon after Nell and Beth arrive at the isolated old house, Nell hears soft piano music, even though the music room is closed up, the piano locked and the key missing. And then she discovers that the mysterious music has been heard before. Nell and Michael begin to realize that the music is not just linked to Esmond, but is tangled with Isobel Acton's macabre fate more than a hundred years earlier. A fate whose consequences still menace the present

Target audience

adult

Classification