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Secrets of Tyrone
Strange Dreams Haunted Her
Shadows on a staircase...a hand without a body...heartbroken, unearthly sobs. The images never varied through the years, nor the feeling of stark terror. The photograph Karen Barnett discovered in her mother's effects was of the house in those nightmares. On the back was a single word: Tyrone.
On a street in Tyrone, Nebraska, Karen found the house. But neither she nor the town's mayor, Steve Hayes, could find anyone who'd reveal why she was haunted by a place she'd never seen.
Tyrone was the beginning of Karen's perilous journey. Love was waiting for her there - but so was creeping terror...
Shadows on a staircase...a hand without a body...heartbroken, unearthly sobs. The images never varied through the years, nor the feeling of stark terror. The photograph Karen Barnett discovered in her mother's effects was of the house in those nightmares. On the back was a single word: Tyrone.
On a street in Tyrone, Nebraska, Karen found the house. But neither she nor the town's mayor, Steve Hayes, could find anyone who'd reveal why she was haunted by a place she'd never seen.
Tyrone was the beginning of Karen's perilous journey. Love was waiting for her there - but so was creeping terror...
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First published July 1, 1989
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July 5, 2016
Karen Barnett (who's 30) from California, goes back home to Montana to sort through her father's belongings, he died nine days ago. While she's there she brings down a box of her mother's possessions from the attic. Inside the box she finds an envelope with a photograph of a house, the house of her nightmares. Does this house really exist? She has been seeing this house in her dreams/nightmares since she was a child. On the back of the photo one word is scrawled---Tyrone.
She leaves and goes back to California, but she can't stop thinking about the photo of the house. She has a small retail jewelry shop, but she's having trouble working and concentrating, she's becoming obsessed with the picture of the house. She eventually starts looking for towns named Tyrone. She finds three states that have towns named Tyrone, decides on Nebraska, and on impulse goes there to hopefully find this house. While driving through Tyrone (in Nebraska) she cruises up and down streets and finally, to her amazement, finds the house. While she's outside looking at the house a man who is walking by stops and talks to her. His name is Steve Hayes (33) and he is the town mayor. His grandmother is the owner of the abandoned house, it hasn't been lived in for many decades, about 25 years. Steve eventually lets her in the house (he has a key) and Karen wonders how she knew what this house looks like, even on the inside? She has never been here before, or has she? There are rumors that the house is haunted, that a ghost is sometimes seen in an upstairs window, and a murder could have been committed in this house many years ago. Karen needs to find some answers and Steve tries to help her, but the townspeople are very reluctant to talk and to help her out.
This was an enjoyable, captivating, and sometimes sad read with a creepy old abandoned house, strange townsfolk, and decades-old secrets. I found the main couple likable and the cast of characters interesting. I was really curious to see how this would all turn out! A good older Harlequin Intrigue.
She leaves and goes back to California, but she can't stop thinking about the photo of the house. She has a small retail jewelry shop, but she's having trouble working and concentrating, she's becoming obsessed with the picture of the house. She eventually starts looking for towns named Tyrone. She finds three states that have towns named Tyrone, decides on Nebraska, and on impulse goes there to hopefully find this house. While driving through Tyrone (in Nebraska) she cruises up and down streets and finally, to her amazement, finds the house. While she's outside looking at the house a man who is walking by stops and talks to her. His name is Steve Hayes (33) and he is the town mayor. His grandmother is the owner of the abandoned house, it hasn't been lived in for many decades, about 25 years. Steve eventually lets her in the house (he has a key) and Karen wonders how she knew what this house looks like, even on the inside? She has never been here before, or has she? There are rumors that the house is haunted, that a ghost is sometimes seen in an upstairs window, and a murder could have been committed in this house many years ago. Karen needs to find some answers and Steve tries to help her, but the townspeople are very reluctant to talk and to help her out.
This was an enjoyable, captivating, and sometimes sad read with a creepy old abandoned house, strange townsfolk, and decades-old secrets. I found the main couple likable and the cast of characters interesting. I was really curious to see how this would all turn out! A good older Harlequin Intrigue.
February 5, 2023
Surprisingly good, and mostly a mystery novel with a side of romance. If the ending had been stronger, it might have made it to 4 star rating. (Okay, it might have lost a few points for a western Nebraska that sounded a bit more like Kansas, but I'm not sure if that was bad research or trying a little too hard to make sure no one thought it was set in a particular town.)
Oh, sure, it has a few fridge logic moments, but for a story about a town with a secret and a woman with nightmares that might be memories, it did a pretty good job of holding together. And at having a sufficiently dark secret. In many ways, it felt like a grown up version of the sort of children's mysteries I liked growing up. It was also reminiscent of Agatha Christie's Sleeping Murder - enough so that I wouldn't be surprised if the author was inspired by it, but not so much so that it felt like a rip off of it.
But I am very fond of mysteries that involve figuring out what happened in the past somewhere, so I am pretty much the ideal audience for this book.
Edit: I wrote this review before I settled on my current rating system, so I have bumped it up to a 4. I would read more books like this from this author.
Oh, sure, it has a few fridge logic moments, but for a story about a town with a secret and a woman with nightmares that might be memories, it did a pretty good job of holding together. And at having a sufficiently dark secret. In many ways, it felt like a grown up version of the sort of children's mysteries I liked growing up. It was also reminiscent of Agatha Christie's Sleeping Murder - enough so that I wouldn't be surprised if the author was inspired by it, but not so much so that it felt like a rip off of it.
But I am very fond of mysteries that involve figuring out what happened in the past somewhere, so I am pretty much the ideal audience for this book.
Edit: I wrote this review before I settled on my current rating system, so I have bumped it up to a 4. I would read more books like this from this author.
July 24, 2013
Not probable ending. Glad it was not too explicit.
May 19, 2016
Loved this story!
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