false <![CDATA[The Stranger House]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174145087m/365460.jpg 365460 11 A stunning new psychological thriller set in past and present-day Cumbria from the award-winning author of the Dalziel and Pascoe series.<br><br>Things move slowly in the tiny village of Illthwaite, but that&#8217;s about to change with the arrival of two strangers. Sam Flood is a young Australian post-grad en route to Cambridge. Miguel Madero is a Spanish historian in flight from a seminary. They have nothing in common and no connection, except that they both want to dig up bits of the past that some people would rather keep buried. Sam is looking for information about her grandmother who left Illthwaite courtesy of the child migrant scheme four decades earlier. The past Mig is interested in is more than four centuries old.<br><br>They meet in the village pub, the Stranger House, a remnant of the old Illthwaite Priory. They can find nothing to agree on. Sam believes that anything that can&#8217;t be explained by math isn&#8217;t worth explaining; Mig sees ghosts; Sam is a fun-loving, experienced young woman; Mig is a 26-year-old virgin. But once their paths cross, they become increasingly entangled as they pursue what at first seem to be separate quests, finding out the hard way who to trust and who to fear in this ancient village.<br><br>The action is fast, there are clashes physical and metaphysical, and shocks natural and supernatural, as the tension mounts to an explosive climax. But fans of Reginald Hill&#8217;s will not be surprised to find a few laughs along the way. And very loyal fans might even recognize a ghost from the very distant past. . . .<br><br><br><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i> 2831899 2005 The Stranger House total:131|5:21|4:60|3:40|2:7|1:3| 131 482 184 14 3 0 false false Sun Jul 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 03 10:51:36 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 05 20:32:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 15 12:10:24 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 15 12:10:25 -0700 2007 more...]]> 0 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 23 13:37:27 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 23 13:45:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false false Tue Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Sun Nov 02 00:50:11 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 02 00:51:03 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Fri Jul 03 07:44:34 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 08 10:54:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Nov 04 05:58:15 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 04 06:02:32 -0800 2009 Strange story, relying on coincidences, but good characters and, as ever with Reginald Hill, well written.]]> 1 0 false false Tue Feb 06 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Jul 31 18:02:09 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 31 18:02:09 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 11 07:16:57 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 11 07:18:04 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sat Mar 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 05 09:14:22 -0800 2009 Sat Mar 14 08:07:26 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Wed Oct 08 06:12:32 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 18 06:57:43 -0700 2008 At the end, I felt like I hadn't paid attention enough t...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Oct 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 15 16:54:09 -0700 2009 Wed Nov 18 01:06:10 -0800 2009 Not only does this goes into Viking myths and Edas, but also Catholic/CoE persecution history and the (now recently apologized for) fiasco of the emigrating kids in the 60s to the land of Oz.
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