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218 pp.
| Bloomsbury |
January, 2012 |
TradeISBN 978-1-59990-745-1$16.99
(3)
YA
After his mother's death, Michael becomes the ward of the wealthy but apparently unbalanced Sir Stephen and reluctantly spends Christmas at his estate on the Cambridgeshire fens, where all is not what it seems. Mysterious glimpsed figures, secret chambers, strange noises in the night, tragic accidents, surprising revelations, and more figure into this page-turner of a gothic novel.