Greystone Tavern

Greystone #1

by Janet Louise Roberts, Louisa Bronte (Pseudonym)

A romantic and suspenseful novel set in 1774 at the historic Greystone Tavern, a remote New England inn. Young Charity Osborne finds herself stranded with a strange group of wayfarers.

229 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published October 12, 1975

About the author

See pseudonyms Louisa Bronte, Rebecca Danton & Janette Radcliffe. Some of the listed titles are more straight romance than romantic suspense.

Janet Louise Roberts was born on January 20, 1925, in New Britain Connecticut, the daughter of a missionary in a conservative church. She wrote contemporary, historical, and gothic romances, as well as occult horror romances such as The Devil’s Own, Isle of the Dolphins, Lord Satan, and Her Demon Lover. She used pseudonyms for several of her works.

Roberts died on June 11, 1982 in Dayton, Ohio.

Reviews

[Jane Irish Nelson · Rating 3 out of 5]

This reads more like a Gothic romance than a historical mystery, although it is both historical and includes many mystery elements. Set in February 1774, the American Revolution has not yet began, but there are rumblings. A group of passengers, travelling by stagecoach from Boston to New York are stranded at Greystone Tavern by the weather. There they become enmeshed in murder, spies, army deserters (from the British army), and even a legend of hidden pirate gold! All this in less than a week. When the story begins, Charity Osborne's father has recently died, and her uncle is taking her to live with him in New York City. Just like every Gothic heroine, Charity foolishly head into danger as well as tumbling head over heels in love. While I found it interesting and hard to put down, it may not be to everyone's taste. "Louisa Bronte" is a pseudonym of Janet Louise Roberts.