”You are not wanted here. Go away from Hallstead Island or you will be very sorry you stayed.”
Macy Stoddard had hoped to ease the grief of losing her parents in a fiery car crash by accepting a job as a private nurse to the wealthy and widowed Alexandria Hallstead. But her first sight of Hallstead House is of a dark and forbidding home. She quickly finds its winding halls and shadowy rooms … shadowy rooms filled with secrets and suspicions. Alex seems happy to have Macy’s help, but others on the island, including Alex’s sinister servants and hostile relatives, are far less welcoming. Watching eyes, veiled threats… slowly, surely, the menacing spirit of Hallstead Island closes in around Macy. And she can only wonder if her story will become just one of the many secrets of Hallstead House.…
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I love gothics–and I’m happy to discover Amy M. Reade.
Secrets of Hallstead House by Amy M. Reade was a delightful, gothic-style mystery that immediately set the mood with a remote setting in the Thousand islands of upstate New York. It had a delicious and ominous tone that centered around a wealthy family and a matriarch named Alex Hallstead, a spry, elderly woman with a few secrets of her own and …
As someone who reads a number of mysteries, I really enjoyed this book. “Secrets of Hallstead House” is a good old-fashioned mystery with a touch of the gothic (wealthy elderly woman in an isolated, rambling old house) thrown into the mix. And it’s a recipe for some seriously satisfying reading. From the first page, I was drawn into the story of …
Not awful but glad I got it free! Nice story and premise. In some areas the story lagged and others it felt as if something were missing. It didn’t seem like there was continuity in the characters and their personalities. For example Pete went from being very gruff and stand-off-ish to be friendly and congenial rather quickly. As for Macy she was …