Blood Canticle (Vampire Chronicles)

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Fiery, fierce, and erotic, Blood Canticle marks the triumphant culmination of Anne Rice’s bestselling Vampire Chronicles, as Lestat tells his astounding tale of the pleasures and tortures that lie between death’s shadow and immortality. . . .

Surrounded by its brooding swampscape, Blackwood Farm is alive with the comings and goings of the bewitched and the bewitching. Among them is the ageless vampire Lestat, vainglorious enough to believe that he can become a saint, weak enough to fall impossibly in love.

Gripped by his unspeakable desire for the mortal Rowan Mayfair and taking the not so innocent, new-to-the-blood Mona Mayfair under his wing, Lestat braves the wrath of paterfamilias Julien Mayfair and ventures to a private island off the coast of Haiti. There, Saint Lestat will get his chance to slay his dragon. For Mona and the Mayfairs share an explosive, secret blood bond to another deathless species: a five-thousand-year-old race of Taltos, strangers held in the throes of evil itself.

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Anne Rice continues her astonishing Vampire Chronicles in a new novel that begins where Blackwood Farm left off -- and tells the story of Lestat's quest for redemption, goodness, and the love of Rowan Mayfair.

Welcome back to Blackwood Farm. Here are all of the brilliantly conceived characters that make up the two worlds of vampires and witches: Mona Mayfair, who's come to the farm to die and is brought into the realm of the undead; her uncle, Julian Mayfair, guardian of the family, determined to forever torment Lestat for what he has done to Mona; Rowan Mayfair, brilliant neurosurgeon and witch, who finds herself dangerously drawn to the all-powerful Lestat; her husband, Michael Curry, hero of the Mayfair Chronicles, who seeks Lestat's help with the temporary madness of his wife; Ash Templeton, a 5,000-year-old Taltos who has taken Mona's child; and Patsy, the country-western singer, who returns to avenge her death at the hands of her son, Quinn Blackwood.

Delightfully, at the book's center is the Vampire Lestat, once the epitome of evil, now pursuing the transformation set in motion with Memnoch the Devil. He struggles with his vampirism and yearns for goodness, purity and love, as he saves Patsy's ghost from the dark realm of the Earthbound, uncovers the mystery of the Taltos, and unselfishly decides the fate of his beloved Rowan Mayfair.

A story of love and loyalty, of the search for passion and promise, Blood Canticle is Anne Rice at her finest.

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So-so.......2007-08-24

This book was ok. I started out liking Mona Mayfair, but by the end I couldn't stand her. Now don't get me wrong, it was nice to have the 'Brat Prince' "write" again, I think that Anne has given up on the dark side. She's gone spiritual. There's nothing wrong with that, but if you've read other books of Anne Rice's you'll notice a difference in this one. The first chapter was tedious and boring; it made me want to stop reading, right then and there! However it's a lot of babble so I skipped to chapter 2 like Lestat suggests. It does tie up the loose ends with the Taltos, which I always wondered about. I hope that if Mrs. Rice decides to do another Vampire book that she looks back to her original books. There was nothing wrong with "Memnoch the Devil" a lot of what is talked about in the first chapter, I just think that a lot of people didn't understand that she was trying to warn us that maybe we've reached the end with Lestat. This is the first book since "Memnoch the Devil" that has been written by Lestat, maybe she's out of ideas. I mean come on! How much MORE can he do? After you've been to Heaven and Hell and back, there's just not much left that seems to be so important right? I'm sure that's how she's looking at this through Lestat's eyes. So those of you criticizing Anne for being full of herself, you all are just silly! Overall the book was ok. Had its high points and low points. Not one of her best work but I will continue to keep it.

I didn't realize this was the end..........2007-06-27

I read this book and thoroughly enjoyed it. Not as much as some of the other Chronicles, but I still devoured it.

What I didn't realize was that this is the last of the Vampire Chronicles. Yes, I am a little late in the game figuring it out, but the shock is still palpable! I finished Christ Our Lord: Out of Egypt, and began to wonder about her return to vampires and witches.

I read Anne's post here, in which she declared "...thank God..." regarding Blood Canticle being the last of the Chronicles. I have to very, very sadly and vehemently disagree. I am going to miss looking forward to that next adventure.

I will be reading the next Christ book, but not with the same enthusiasm I held for our old friends Lestat, Louis, Marius, Armand, Pandora, Gabrielle, Rowan, Mona...all of them.

I would like to thank Anne for giving me such a great escape--for creating a world that was so easy to slip into and get lost in.

Very dissapointed.......2007-06-24

I was angry enough after reading Memnoch, and I wasn't interested in the books that came after, as they did not have Lestat (or Louis)as the narrator. But Blood Canticle had. Or so I thought. After reading the first ten or twenty pages I came to the conclusion that the narrator of this book was not Lestat, but the author trying to find back a character she lost so long ago. I mean, Memnoch was bad, but at least she used the right voice! After those twenty or so pages I decided I did not want this book in my bookcase any longer, it being a disgrace to the other vampire cronicles stored in there, so I brought it to the nearest second-hand bookshop and never ever wanted to look into it again.

Reviewers too hard on Anne Rice.......2007-06-15

There are some extremely harsh reviews here, and I think they are very insulting to Anne Rice. She is right in her response: if you don't like her writing, don't read it. She doesn't owe any of us anything, especially not closure. The Vampire Chronicles, like the rest of her work, belong to her. They are her intellectual property to do with as she sees fit: she can take the story in any direction she wishes, and she can stop writing them all together. Lestat is hers, not ours. I really don't understand the nastiness and anger in so many of these reviews.

This is an interesting book. It's a kind of part 2 to Blackwood Farm, which is wonderful, and it continues the blending of the Mayfair Witches and Vampire Chronicles, which is intriguing, illuminating, and fun. I loved it, and I'll surely reread it over the years. I say that if you are buying Blackwood Farm, absolutely buy Blood Canticle with it, no question.

We all need to respect authors and their work. We're lucky to have been able to read Anne Rice's stories. I'll consider myself lucky to read more of her stories if she chooses to publish more, and I hope she knows that she is deeply respected and valued by many, many readers.

Shipped quickly and recieved on time........2007-05-19

This sellers turn around time was better than i ever expected.

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It's Finished, but It Doesn't Seem So

Blood Canticle (The Vampire Chronicles)

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It's Finished, but It Doesn't Seem So.......2004-12-14

I recently wrote a review more of other peoples' reviews of this book. Now, I figure it's time to review the actual book, but since we can only write one review per item, I'm writing this under the paperback listing.

I first read "Interview With the Vampire" twelve years ago, in the tenth grade. I have since read every Vampire Chronicle to be released. Just quickly, I'd like to say I felt the best volumes were "Interview With the Vampire," "The Vampire Lestat," "Queen of the Damned," "The Vampire Armand," and "Blood and Gold."

The other books were not quite what I've come to expect in this series, but that's not really for me to judge. Overall, it's been a wonderful series, and I truly am a little sad to see that she's closed the overall story.

"Blood Canticle" was a very quick read, yet still full of her usual attention to details that give you a very good image of the characters, places, objects and events in her stories. The character development, though rapid, was ample.

One of the things that has made Ms. Rice's Vampire Chronicles so interesting and engrossing has been her dealings with existence, spirituality, mortality, and other aspects of "human" life. Much of these dealings are missing from "Blood Canticle." Almost the only thing I saw throughout this book was a dealing with lust. However, lust has been explored, in depth, and at great length, many times throughout almost all her works.

The one thing I saw in this story that was unique to her dealings with Lestat was his refusal to give the "dark gift" to someone with whom he is deeply in love. This is the first time he has put his selfishness, loneliness, and lust second to his desire to see a generally good person continue to do good things with the abilities and resources available to her. He has seen the work she does, and he can comprehend just how vast and promising it is. He has deemed this far more important than his own needs and wants.

This ability to put the needs of others before one's own is an absolute must for anyone to be deemed a saint. Perhaps Lestat took the biggest step he could have toward reaching sainthood.

Ultimately, that's what this book was supposed to be about...Lestat's desire to become a saint. However, the story's dealing with this theme has been, until just this moment, as I write this review, seemingly nonexistent. It was never clear, as I read the story, that Lestat was doing anything in particular to achieve the goal he talked about, almost tiresomely, at the beginning of, and throughout, the book. However, I have to say that it makes me grin to think back on it now and realize that I didn't see the most saintly event in the book for what it actually was.

But, since the event was treated with no more importance than anything else that happened in the story, I have to wonder, also, if Ms. Rice understood that she was giving Lestat his first true taste of sainthood as she wrote about his turning Rowan down for the dark gift, especially for the reasons he did so.

This is the end of the Vampire Chronicles, as has been mentioned. Its ending, however, didn't feel at all like an actual farewell, let alone like an ending to a series that has now run nearly thirty years.

As books go, without considering the complete body of works in the Vampire Chronicles, it was, I feel, a decent work. Some of her works have been much better, but some have also been much worse. However, her books, in general, are still considerably better than many works several "renowned" authors have turned out over the years.

This book left me wondering what the next installment of the Vampire Chronicles will be like, but, as Ms. Rice has made unmistakably clear, she is finished with this series. So, I must admit there is a bit of disappointment in this last story, because I don't feel it fulfilled the role of ending the series. But, again, as a book in its own right, it's not bad.

So, I'll end in saying that, considering the fact that you can pick up hardcover copies for pretty cheap at bookstores, you wouldn't be remiss to add it to your library. If you read it and find that you didn't like the story, well, put it on a shelf anyway. You may come to a point in your life when the story will make perfect sense to you, and you will come to love it. You just can't know until it happens, but if you never buy the book and read it, you'll never have the chance to know, either. I can think of far worse risks to take than giving this book a try.

6 Anne Rice Novels, Hardcovers - Vittorio the Vampire, Merrick, Blood and Gold, Blackwood Farm, Blood Canticle, Christ The Lord

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6 Anne Rice Novels, Hardcovers - Vittorio the Vampire, Merrick, Blood and Gold, Blackwood Farm, Blood Canticle, Christ The Lord
Anne Rice
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Title: 6 Anne Rice Novels, Hardcovers - Vittorio the Vampire, Merrick, Blood and Gold, Blackwood Farm, Blood Canticle, Christ The Lord Binding: Hardcover Publication date: 1999-2005

Anne Rice Collection II (Witching Hour, Taltos, Lasher, The Vampire Armand, Memnoch the Devil, Blood Canticle, Interview with a Vampire, The Queen of the Damned, The Tale of the Body Thief,)

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Anne Rice Collection II (Witching Hour, Taltos, Lasher, The Vampire Armand, Memnoch the Devil, Blood Canticle, Interview with a Vampire, The Queen of the Damned, The Tale of the Body Thief,)
Anne Rice
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The Mayfair witch saga with some of the Vampire Chronicles provides either entertaining evenings or weekend. Enjoy

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Blood Canticle

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Blood Canticle
Anne Rice
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Cantico De Sangre/ the Blood Canticle
Anne Rice
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The Vampire Chronicles: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned, The Tale of the Body Thief, Memnoch the Devil, The Vampire Armand, Merrick, Blood and Gold, Blackwood Farm, Blood Canticle (Set of 11 Vampire Horror Novels)

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The Vampire Chronicles: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned, The Tale of the Body Thief, Memnoch the Devil, The Vampire Armand, Merrick, Blood and Gold, Blackwood Farm, Blood Canticle (Set of 11 Vampire Horror Novels)
Anne Rice
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Blood Canticle
Anne Rice
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A DELIGHTFUL MYSTERY

The Red Mystery

Murderously Fun

A tad overrated

pleasant enough reading experience
The Red House Mystery
A. A. Milne
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Something's happened," said Cayley. He was breathing quickly. "I heard a shot-it sounded like a shot - I was in the library. A loud bang - I didn't know what it was. And the door's locked." He rattled the handle again, and shook it. "Open the door!" he cried. "I say, Mark, what is it? Open the door!

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Something's happened, said Cayley. He was breathing quickly. "I heard a shot-it sounded like a shot - I was in the library. A loud bang - I didn't know what it was. And the door's locked." He rattled the handle again, and shook it. "Open the door!" he cried. "I say, Mark, what is it? Open the door!"

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A DELIGHTFUL MYSTERY.......2004-12-30

NOT REALLY A REVIEW JUST A VOTE FOR THIS DELIGHTFUL BOOK. THOSE WHO LOVE ENGLISH MYSTERIES WILL LIKE THIS.

The Red Mystery.......2003-05-14

The Red House Mystery by A.A Milne was a mystery set in the late 1900's. The story was about a lady named Miss Stevens in the red house. There is a man or a woman that is killing people, so the public has to try and figure out who did it, when and how. This is probably one of the best mystery stories I have ever read. This book really had a lot of suspense and surprising points. I think you'll be very shocked about what happens at the end. I recommend this book to whoever likes mysteries or who is at a high school level.

Murderously Fun.......2000-12-22

This was the most fun I've had reading a mystery since I read the Hardy Boys as a kid. It seems you should be reading it under the covers with a flashlight. In The Red House Mystery, A.A. Milne (of Pooh fame) lets us pal around with Tony Gillingham, a jack-of-all-trades who is trying his hand a being a detective. The setting is an English country house loaded with guests, including the British major, the willful actress, and the dim-but-lovable young athlete. These are stock characters; Tony and his friend Bill even gleefully refer to each other as "Holmes" and "Watson". It's all very playful, despite the corpse. So much so that Tony and Bill are guilty about how much fun they are having.

There are tons of mentions of amateur theatricals and acting. Tony is playing at being a detective and so is the reader, which draws you into the story alongside him. In a way you are competing with Tony and Bill to solve the crime. It's a fair contest: only amateurs allowed. Milne gives you all the clues, even to the point of saying things like "This would be important later." In the reader's head a siren goes off and a sign lights up saying "CLUE". Tony and Bill bounce theories off each other and the theories change as the clues mount up. Still, Tony is always ahead of Bill (and probably the reader). He knows the real question in a mystery is not "How?" but "Why?"

The best parts are the gasps of surprise and moments of anticipation while we wait in darkness for the sounds of approaching footsteps. Milne has a great way of setting the mood, whether it's nervous tension or eager curiosity. A fun mystery is like opening up a big present: You can't wait to know what it is. Milne conveys this sense of "I need to know" in this his one-and-only mystery novel. If you're like me, you'll need to know and keep saying to yourself, "One more chapter and I'll put out the light."

A tad overrated.......2000-10-16

"I envy those readers who are coming to this lighthearted masterpiece for the first time," writes Douglas G. Greene in the introduction of A. A. Milne's "The Red House Mystery." Since Greene is considered the leading expert on John Dickson Carr--one of the greatest Golden Age detective novelists--I was tremendously excited by his recommendation and plunged into the book straightaway.

It took me a little under two weeks to finish. Yes, for a book that isn't even two hundred pages. The story features Antony Gillingham and Bill Beverley as a rather unlikely Holmes and Watson who set out to unravel a bizarre murder at the Red House. Although Gillingham and Beverley make an interesting pair, the way they tackle the problem is a bit too languid and leisurely for my taste (and I usually thrive on cozy mysteries), and since there is virtually no action and almost no other major characters to focus on--well, it's not exactly a page-turner. There are a few nifty plot tricks--one twist involving a door key is particularly clever--but the resolution (which falls back on that most irritating of cliches, the letter of confession) doesn't carry much in the way of suspense or surprise.

Still, it's all very witty and well-written, and the droll humor that spawned "Winnie-the-Pooh" is very much in evidence. Anglophiles will treasure it for its delineation of mid-1920s England alone. But I was expecting a masterpiece, and as a detective novel, "The Red House Mystery" is no masterpiece--but then again, Mr. Milne is no John Dickson Carr.

pleasant enough reading experience.......2000-10-13

Of course it's very hampering being a detective, when you don't know anything about detecting, and when nobody knows that you're doing detection, and you can't have people up to cross-examine them, and you have neither the energy nor the means to make proper inquiries; and, in short, when you're doing the whole thing in a thoroughly amateur, haphazard way. -A.A. Milne (The Red House Mystery)

A.A. Milne is, of course, best remembered for his series of Winnie the Pooh tales. In addition, he wrote for the famous British humor magazine Punch, was a fine playwright and, though he served in WWI, became an outspoken pacifist. In the midst of all this, he wrote one of the classic English drawing room mysteries--The Red House Mystery. The book ends on a note which seems to imply that further adventures will follow, but sadly none did.

The Red House is a British manor, home to Mark Ablett, and gathering place for his fun loving friends. But the bucolic setting is disrupted when Ablett's long lost brother, black sheep of the family, is murdered and Mark goes missing. Two guests, Antony Gillingham, a sort of Holmsian jack of all trades, and Bill Beverley, a mildly dense Watson-like sidekick, take it upon themselves to solve the crime. What follows is a reasonably dated but still amusing "intuitive" mystery. Raymond Chandler apparently went out of his way to attack the story as one of the worst examples of the genre, wholly lacking in genuine criminological methodology and requiring enormous intuitive leaps on the part of the "detectives". Still, take it for what it is and it offers a pleasant enough reading experience.

GRADE: C+

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The Red House Mystery

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A detective story from the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh.

The After House / Locked Doors / The Red Lamp (Mary Roberts Rinehart's Crime Book)

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The After House / Locked Doors / The Red Lamp (Mary Roberts Rinehart's Crime Book)

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Annie Wilkins Mystery Series: The Jade Monkey, Shakespeare Mystery, Mystery at Stone Mountain, House of Pamela Nye, Little Red Pills (Little Red Pills, ... Mystery at Stone Mountain, Jade Monkey)

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Annie Wilkins Mystery Series: The Jade Monkey, Shakespeare Mystery, Mystery at Stone Mountain, House of Pamela Nye, Little Red Pills (Little Red Pills, ... Mystery at Stone Mountain, Jade Monkey)
Annamarie Sands
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Crooked House - This is a Red Badge Mystery

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Crooked House - This is a Red Badge Mystery

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Mystery

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Crooked House, a Red Badge Mystery
Agatha Christie
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Haunted House Mystery: Secret Picture Search (Secret Picture Series)

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Haunted House Mystery: Secret Picture Search (Secret Picture Series)
Red Bird Press
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House of the Red Slayer (Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan)

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Well written medieval mystery

House of the Red Slayer (Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan)
Paul Harding
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Well written medieval mystery.......2005-01-31

It is sad but inevitable that Paul Harding's novels about Brother Athelstan have been overshadowed by the Cadfael series by Ellis Peters .The series heroes have much in common --both are medieval religionists with military backgrounds who have the uncanny knack of getting involved with ,and solving ,criminal cases .Both are partnered by the "official wing " of the law -Cadfael by sheriff Hugh Beringar ,and Athelstan by the mountainous and wine loving Sir John Cranston .
Yet they are not really alike -Athelstan is a friar ,not a cloistered monk .He is free to wander the filthy ,grime encrusted streets of London rather than while away his time in a rural herb garden ,behind monastery walls .Indeed it could be argued that in the Athelstan books we have the equivalent of a middle ages " hard boiled " novel to act as counterpoint to the "cosies " of the Cadfael series .Certainly, a great asset of the books is the evocation of place namely late fourteeenth century London ,here in the grip of a bitter ,bone chilling winter .The Thames is frozen ,and death from exposure is evidenced on every street corner .Unrest is in the air -and signs of what soon became open revolt ( the Peasant's Revolt )are in the air
Murder has been done in the Tower of London ,the Constable ,a man named Witton ,having had his throat cut in a locked bedchamber having just four days previously received a death threat seemingly from Islamic "hashishi" aka "assassins".They are not the only suspects however as he was widely disliked and feared .Soon another knight is killed and the deaths prove to be linked to acts of theft committed in Egypt during the Crusades

Athelstan also finds time to investigate another bizarre crime -grave robbing ,

It is quite a dark book ;there are several deaths ,every street corner groans with the bodies of executed criminals and London emerges as a cesspit of disease ,ignorance and poverty .Yet it is withal a book with its share of humour and compassion .Athelsatn is a convincing hero and a human one ,still grieving for his deceased brother Francis ,and nursing a unrequited and undeclared passion for a member of his congregation ,Benedicta .There is also the splendid and very Falstaffian creation of Sir John- roistering ,vulgar from time to time ,but a charitable man and head over heels in love with Maud his wife and ruler of the household

This is one for those who enjoy their history with mystery in darker shades than most

The House of the Red Slayer (Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan)

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A Puzzle for Athelstan

The House of the Red Slayer (Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan)
P.C. Doherty
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A Puzzle for Athelstan.......2006-10-30

This is the second book in the Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan series. This novel combined with the early books in the Hugh Corbett series is one of Paul Doherty's earlier offerings and he has since written many more books and is now an established author of medieval novels and has also added a number of novels on Egypt to his ever growing list of titles. Having said that it is one of his earlier offerings does not mean that it is inferior to his current books, quite the opposite. The Hugh Corbett mysteries were and are extremely popular and Paul Doherty has found another winner with the Brother Athelstan series.

In this novel Brother Athelstan is set a conundrum. What appears to be the perfect crime, the murder of Sir Ralph Whitton. Sir Ralph is the Constable of the Tower of London and he is found in one of its bleak and forbidden chambers. But the door was still locked from the inside and was guarded by trusted men.

The crux of the matter is how did the murderer enter the chamber, commit the crime and then get out leaving the door locked from the inside and not disturbing the guards in the process? Why was the Constable so terrified and appalled by the message he received on days before his death?

The House With the Red Door: The Morrisons

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Exceptionally intriguing__
Intriguing Story!
Fascinating Dialogue!
TRULY DEVINE!
An Exciting Author

The House With the Red Door: The Morrisons
Jennifer Ferguson
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The wind is blowing rapidly and tosses away layers of soil, causing several little buried skeletons to appear. She is surrounded by these little hands that desperately try to reach out to her. She is drowning and cannot survive the heavy rain that continuously falls—and the heavy winds blowing away her rosebush garden.

The wind howls even louder and these tiny hands continue reaching out to her; crying and crying—tormenting her mind...

In this chilling thriller, a small family that dwelled for generations in an exclusive mansion will be transformed into nothing but shame and disgrace. And a doctrinal mother and an honest, hardworking nanny will turn what used to be a private home-sweet-home into a whorehouse and a destructive burial ground. The filth that is buried behind the walls of this once used-to-be mansion is as dark as midnight. And no one wants to go near...

THE HOUSE WITH THE RED DOOR

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Exceptionally intriguing__.......2005-07-06

The book is fascinating. I enjoyed the Felix character who totally donimates all characters. Quite frankly I do not find Aundrea to be bitch, but Lisa who froliced through men like children on an Easter Egg hunt. Quite an intriguing story. I enjoyed it.

Intriguing Story!.......2003-10-14

Excellent imagintion! Symplicit writing. My favorite kind of writer. Not confusing. I did not have to ready this book twice to get the jest of it. Not too many authors can compare. I find the best writers are the ones with innovative minds. Fantastic writing. Characters are well maintained and right to the point. Aundrea, a natural devil, demeaning, yet professional. The scenery is rather amazing. I saw it exactly as I read it. Great Job!

Fascinating Dialogue!.......2001-03-26

This book is hilarious, enthralling and well written. I love her articulated "Fade Out" and Fade In". I like that! It makes the reader feel like a part of the entire event.

When Aundrea went to answer the ringing of the chimes, the "Fade Out". That was great, because one would lead you to believe that when she did answer the chimes, the scene with the young man releasing the sail was at the door. This is truly unique and I find her to be an excellent writer, her imagination goes well above and beyond.

Great job!

My favorite chapter? All, but I will give an extra star for the final chapter, "The Reunion". Fantastic!

TRULY DEVINE!.......2001-03-22

DEVINE Jennifer!

Sweet and scrumptious!

This novel is like yourself!

I'm stuck, on this novel like I'm stuck on you.

EXCELLENT! Continue your good work.

An Exciting Author.......2001-02-24

The book is truly a pleasure to have. Breathtaking, educational, hilarious.

Aundrea seem to be the main character in this book. Dominating, disgusting. Can't figure out why the author would want to write so much repulsive dialogue for this character. Aundrea seems to be the housekeeper most of us would want to have around. What Aundrea did on her personal time is no concern to Felix, Jim, nor the lady of the mansion, Miss Cora. Yes, she caught up on a piece here and there, but she was a damn good housekeeper.

Felix? Stupid. Cannot describe him any other way, yet he was determined to improve himself and he did it in fashion. Great guy. He too like Aundrea, is the caretaker one would be eager to hire. Though he showed stupidity, he was still smart in many ways.

Darn, the abortion, or what should have been an abortion. How amazing. I give this author nothing other than a 5 for her imagination. How wild! Having an abortion then learning 13 years later that you have a son, and living right in your father's home, the father that she was searching for, for years.

The last chapter of this book has given this author the 5 stars. The most un-forgettable ending. "The Reunion". What a reunion that was.

Fantastic dialogue!

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