![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What could be more gothic than the sorrowful drabness of the rainy-day funeral which opens the story? Or the suspicious circumstances surrounding a death? Or the person you thought you knew turns out to be an enigma? The elements are all here: mystery, horror, death, romance and a touch of the supernatural. Described as an Australian gothic mystery it certainly falls into this category. Thornwood House intrigued me from the start. Sadly that's where this book sat, overlooked, until recently and once I'd read it I wondered why I had left it there for so long. ![]() Throw in a mention of World War II and it is definitely heading for my TBR pile. Like many, I cannot pass up a book that involves old photographs, letters and abandoned houses. In her attempt to discover the truth she uncovers another family tragedy and in doing so places herself and her daughter in danger. The house, willed to Audrey by Tony Jarman, Bronwyn's father, was once the home of his grandfather, Samuel Riordan.Īudrey finds a faded photograph and a letter in the old house and becomes obsessed with the rumour that Samuel Riordan killed Tony's grandmother back in the 1940s, on his return from the war. When Audrey Kepler and her eleven-year-old daughter, Bronwyn, move to Thornwood House on the outskirts of Magpie Creek, a small town in rural Queensland, it doesn't take them long to fall under its spell. ![]()
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