An absorbing and stimulating read with a slightly supernatural chill. Barrister Clare needs to keep her well known level head and her mettle about her when a meeting with a clairvoyant leads her to research her own family history. Clare is meticulous in her delving and leaves no stone unturned, which unsettles an eerie slice of history. This is discerning and subtle writing, without cheap thrills, instead layers of tension are built that feel utterly realistic. An intriguing mystery with an added thrill of suspense, like Clare, you may find yourself double checking that you’ve locked your door at night. ~ Liz Robinson
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Clare Mallory has a Victorian mourning locket with the photograph of a girl and a curl of her hair. When Clare loses the locket in a fortune-teller's tent her quest to find it draws her into a dark episode of the family's past and the true circumstances of the girl's untimely death at Danby Hall, her Norfolk home. The locket has been taken by the fortune-teller herself, sensing a troubled history and danger ahead. But her attempts to understand the warning signs release forces long held at bay. Events of the past seep into the present until the reappearance of a man who vanished from Danby Hall in 1887 threatens not only her life but Clare's too. 'It was lying on the rug with the chain curled round. It must have come off when the girl had grabbed her hat and basket and marched off with barely a word. As soon as she picked the thing up she had felt it and once she had prised it open there was no doubt at all.'
The Green Door features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Thriller and Suspense, Book Club Recommendations, General Fiction, Fiction, Recommendations
The Green Door is available in Paperback
The Green Door was written by Christopher Bowden and published by Langton & Wood
The Green Door has 192 pages
£8.09
