ISBN |
9781444830460 |
Name |
Craddock, Rosemary author. |
Title |
Avalon Castle Rosemary Craddock. |
Edition |
Large print edition. |
Published |
2016 |
Description |
250 pages ; 24 cm. |
258 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. |
Series |
Ulverscroft. |
Summary |
Avalon Castle is an unusual, disturbing place. Painstakingly built by Ambrose Blackwood, an eccentric obsessed by the legends of King Arthur, and inhabited by the rest of the dysfunctional Blackwood family, Avalon Castle houses some very dark secrets. When Rachel Garland visits, she hopes to spend the Christmas of 1867 peacefully with her half-sister Lucy who is living there. What she finds is a house filled with family feuding, rumoured hauntings and unnerving disappearances. Any chance of festivity is halted by the sudden death of a house member. Rachel's discomfort grows as her questions mount: who is this strange family, and what skeletons are being hidden within their vast house? With the help of William Norton, a neighbouring land-owner who makes Rachel's acquaintance, she searches for evidence to prove her suspicions of foul-play, but her quest leads her into deadly peril. |
Built by Ambrose Blackwood, an eccentric obsessed by the legend of King Arthur, Avalon Castle is a disturbing place housing very dark secrets. When Rachel Garland visits in 1867, she hopes to spend a peaceful Christmas with her half-sister Lucy. But what she finds is a house filled with rumoured hauntings, family feuds, and unnerving disappearances. Then the festive mood is destroyed by a death, and Rachel's discomfort grows as her questions mount. With the help of William Norton, a neighbouring landowner, she searches for evidence to prove her suspicions of foul play - but her investigations will lead her into deadly peril... |
Subjects |
Detective and mystery stories |
Families -- Fiction |
Families -- Death -- Fiction |
Vendetta -- Fiction |
Murder -- Fiction |
Family secrets -- Fiction |
Large print books |
Genre |
Mystery fiction -- Detective and mystery fiction |
Large type books -- Mystery fiction |
Historical fiction |
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