The Haunting of Grey Cliffs

by Nina Coombs Pykare

When Hester arrives in Cornwall after agreeing to marry Edward, Earl of Grey Cliffs, she finds an assortment of eccentric relatives including a cousin who claims to contact the dead and is given disturbing information regarding the suspicious death of Edward's father.

Genres: Gothic, Historical

234 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1992

About the author

Nina Pykare
aka
Ann Coombs, Nina Coombs, Nan Pemberton, Nina Porter, Nora Powers, Regina Towers

Nina Coombs Pykare has published 54 novels in the romance, Regency, inspiration, historical, contemporary, gothic, and mystery fields under a variety of pseudonyms.
Nina has sold hundreds of short stories and articles, as well as puzzles and poems for children of all ages. Some of the latter were written for her four sons and daughter, and now for four grandsons, five granddaughters, and one great-granddaughter. Nina taught a novel writing class for Writer's Digest from 1988 to 2006 and has also taught classes at nearby schools and the YWCA. She was married for 20 years, has been divorced longer than that, and still believes love is the most important thing in the world.

Reviews

[Britt]

Gothic

Well this is definitely a gothic style regency. Grin. Very melodramatic, but not bad. I've enjoyed other books by this author a lot more.

[Kay]

Fairly predictable in many respects, but I still enjoyed the book due to the romance and murder mystery amidst the "gothic setting ". I liked the heroine even though she was obsessed with the idea of having a baby and the side characters were eccentric enough to make the castle more mysterious. My second gothic-romance by this writer and it gave me a good time.

[Cattys]

Sometimes you are in mood for the most pedestrian Gothic mystery from the days of yore. So we have the usual checklist:
1. Dark, gloomy castle
2. Tall, dark, brooding hero
3. Flustered heroine with her traitorous body who never seems to think of anything else but the mystery
4. Eccentric bunch of characters
5. Perpetually stormy weather
6. Secrets

Read if you have nothing else to do.

[Amy]

Put me in mind of Victoria Holt and Phyllis Whitney stories

[Brenda Haven]

A good old fashioned regency mystery.