The Silence
by Sarah Rayne

Antiques dealer Nell West is valuing the contents of her late husband Brad’s childhood home, Stilter House. Set on the remote Derbyshire Peaks, there was once a much older property there, in which the notorious Isobel Acton committed a vicious crime.

Warned against visiting the house by an elderly aunt of Brad’s, Nell hears mysterious piano music soon after her arrival. It becomes clear that the music is tangled with Isobel Acton’s macabre fate more than a hundred years earlier. A fate whose consequences still menace the present.

Genre: Contemporary horror and ghost stories

Reviews

“Fans of this veteran author will be well pleased”

Booklist

“Rayne continues to mix eerie hauntings and witty protagonists in her enjoyable third neogothic mystery”

Publishers Weekly

“Rayne's third Nell West ghost story perfects the craft of deftly chosen details, simmering suspense and chilling surprises, all woven into a quiet, elegant narrative”

Kirkus Reviews

Sarah Rayne

Sarah Rayne is the author of many novels of psychological and supernatural suspense, including the Nell West & Michael Flint series, the Phineas Fox mysteries and the Theatre of Thieves mysteries. She lives in Staffordshire.

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Editions

The Silence by Sarah Rayne is available in the following formats

Paperback978184751474531st March 2014138 X 216mm256£13.99
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