Review
This as other titles by Raymond Nickford, together with his forthcoming collected stories "Twists in the Tale" due for publication in September and his novel "A Child for a Summer" to follow in 2005 will comprise a new series of psychological suspense, each balancing the macabre with a strong, poignant theme centering around characters whose lives are driven to extremity and yet each having a strong and satisfying resolution - Haunted Books.
Product Description
Aristo's obsessive need to trace and belong to his family - even though he was told they were all burnt and left unidentifiable during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus - has estranged his English wife, and is gradually distancing his only child, while in turn, Pavlos has an increasing need to belong to a father who will make time for him. As the practices at Papas' late-night museum 'staff meetings' unfold themselves to Pavlos, the boy is led deeper into a sinister confrontation with the 'family'. This beautifully-written novel, with its vivid descriptive passages about Aristo's private museum and the Troodos Mountains of Cyprus, has a tautness and nervous energy that carries the reader on. This novel will haunt the reader long after the last chapter has been read, and the book finally laid to rest.
