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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc
This is my first Harwood (probably not my last - I missed your review Don!) - it has great ratings on Amazon.
Granted, this isn't Great Literature, but it's an entertaining & well written Gothic romp. Every cliche in the book for endangered frail mentally challenged heroine is thrown at you - but it's fun, and hasn't been boring yet. The horror element is Jamesian (Turn of the Screw & others) - in that it is realistic but fantastic - is it a nightmare, hallucination, madness .... or reality? And the historic/period detail is well done. I'm about half way through and highly recommend it -  |
Thanks pooh. It's on my TBR list now. I chose
Scare Me by Richard Parker in the interim, as the premise is intriguing and it had twelve 5* reviews on Amazon:
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When did you last Google yourself?
Wealthy businessman, Will Frost, gets woken in the middle of the night by an anonymous caller, asking him exactly this. When Will goes online, he finds a website has been set up in his name, showing photographs of the inside of his home, along with photographs of six houses he has never seen before. In the first of these strange houses, a gruesome murder has already taken place. Will is then told that his own family is in mortal danger. The only way he can keep them safe is to visit each of the houses on the website in person before the police discover what has happened there. Seven houses. Seven gruesome homicides. Seven chances to save his daughter's life...
Scare Me is tale of modern urban terror, for anyone who's ever worried that someone might one day use the internet to track them down and cause them and their family harm...
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