Product Description

Bosco: once a beautiful, stately home, is now a tranquil artists' retreat. Ellis Brooks has come here for the peace and quiet - and for the opportunity to write a novel inspired by the scandalous events that took place in the mansion's early days, a scandal involving a medium of dubious repute, three dead children and a seance that ended in tragedy. As Ellis delves into Bosco's sinister history, she starts to uncover unnerving connections between the living and the dead. The past is forcing its way into the present, and - as the members of the artistic community come under greater and greater threat - Ellis must untangle the truth caught up in the house's murky past, before it ensnares them all...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #95722 in Books
• Published on: 2007-04-05
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 464 pages

From the Publisher
The chilling new gothic thriller from the author of The Lake of Dead Languages

From the Back Cover
Bosco: once a beautiful, stately home, now a tranquil artists’ retreat. Ellis Brooks has come here for the peace and quiet – and for the opportunity to write a novel inspired by the scandalous events that took place in the mansion’s early days, a scandal involving a medium of dubious repute, three dead children and a séance that ended in tragedy.

As Ellis delves into Bosco’s sinister history, she starts to uncover unnerving connections between the living and the dead. The past is forcing its way into the present, and – as the members of the artistic community come under greater and greater threat – Ellis must untangle the truth caught up in the house’s murky past, before it ensnares them all…

About the Author
Carol Goodman graduated from Vassar College, where she majored in Latin. After teaching Latin for several years, she studied for an MFA in fiction. Her writing has been published in a number of literary magazines. She currently teaches writing and lives in Long Island, USA.

Customer Reviews

Really great haunting tale
This is a ghost story like no other set, at the turn of the 19th century and the start of the 21st. Two seperate periods in time related in an unusual way and brought together at Bosco, a retriet for artists.

Mediums, murders, seances, ghosts, you have it all in this book. As you read, the story unfolds in such an interesting and spooky way.

The characters from the past connect with those in the present until the past can be redeemed through the present.

Wonderful writing, brilliant plot and believable characters. I am ordering more of Carol Goodmans books right now!