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A Clear Blue Sky
Attempting to save her failing marriage and recapture her childhood happiness, Kate Sheridan decides that her family should rent a house in Cornwall, not realizing that a woman with a terrifying secret is on her way to the house
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554 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1995
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April 4, 2013
The front cover and blurb on this book really do give the wrong impression about this story. It's a lot better than it looks.
Kate Sheridan wants to take her family back to Cornwall, where she spent idyllic holidays in her childhood. She feels her husband, Oliver, is working too hard and Emma, her daughter, would benefit from the family time. There's also her sister, Lynn, whose husband has just survived restructering of his company. Their daughter, Lucy, is shy and naive, while William is as boisterous as James is quiet. The two families move into an isolated farmhouse to enjoy the piece, but both husbands have secrets to share and Lucy comes out of her shell in dramatic style. And if that wasn't all, the house itself has a dark secret and a past that is about to make sure this is a holiday they never forget.
This is well written and, if a bit slow in places, the last few chapters just pull you along. A great mystery set against the struggle of the two families to survive the definate downs of life.
Kate Sheridan wants to take her family back to Cornwall, where she spent idyllic holidays in her childhood. She feels her husband, Oliver, is working too hard and Emma, her daughter, would benefit from the family time. There's also her sister, Lynn, whose husband has just survived restructering of his company. Their daughter, Lucy, is shy and naive, while William is as boisterous as James is quiet. The two families move into an isolated farmhouse to enjoy the piece, but both husbands have secrets to share and Lucy comes out of her shell in dramatic style. And if that wasn't all, the house itself has a dark secret and a past that is about to make sure this is a holiday they never forget.
This is well written and, if a bit slow in places, the last few chapters just pull you along. A great mystery set against the struggle of the two families to survive the definate downs of life.
May 26, 2017
Excellent read!
Loved the setting and the time-frame. The author has intimate knowledge of the folks of the region and has created the characters using that knowledge. Enough sadness, madness, and teenage angst to make a really interesting yarn!
Loved the setting and the time-frame. The author has intimate knowledge of the folks of the region and has created the characters using that knowledge. Enough sadness, madness, and teenage angst to make a really interesting yarn!
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March 31, 2020Visions are clear, ideas are different, mind works peacefly just as others, memories needed to recreate the best or the right act towards the action.
Feel everything is fine and can be right. Ambitious is back, aims are there again...there is hope and a place for an educated lady out there...
Feel everything is fine and can be right. Ambitious is back, aims are there again...there is hope and a place for an educated lady out there...
August 17, 2015
Although not billed as a mystery, this novel tells of the unsolved murder of two members of the same family and the disappearance of a third. Sounds like a mystery to me! Two families share the same house on a summer vacation, and discover more than they bargained for--about each other and the long-ago murders. Took me a while to get into the story, but it was worth it in the end.
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