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107 ratings, 3.71 average rating, 4 reviews
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published
1990
by Berkley
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Paperback, 280 pages
isbn
0425120058
(isbn13: 9780425120057)
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Read in March, 2008
I might end up re-rating this one before I'm done. I realized I had never read this one by Michaels. It's one of the few. It is different from many of her others since there's a creepy castle and a legend of a killer merman. :)
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I am thoroughly enjoying this over a third of the way in as always with Michaels: wit, humor, suspense, romance, and creepiness are the makings of this novel set in 70s Cornwall.
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Thoroughly enjoyable. I didn't know who dunnit until the last 15 pages of the...more
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I am thoroughly enjoying this over a third of the way in as always with Michaels: wit, humor, suspense, romance, and creepiness are the makings of this novel set in 70s Cornwall.
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Thoroughly enjoyable. I didn't know who dunnit until the last 15 pages of the...more
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Read in January, 1991
I read this when I was about fourteen, so I'm not sure I would even like it now, but I really enjoyed it at the time. It made me wish I had a rich relative who would leave their Cornish estate when they died! I was also left with a serious craving for scones and clotted cream.
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Mass market book...read if you are truly desperate...starts out interesting and ends fast and disappointingly...I literally rolled my eyes.
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Read in March, 2008
Started out great, fizzled out toward the middle.
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