huutonetistä sain tänään, 4,40e. 2011. Ballantinebooks, New York.

Pääsin sivulle 60 tässä kirjassa. saa jäädä kesken.

Sisälirpaketeksti:
In christmas hoecoming, a familiar face from Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novels - Charlotte`s mother, Caroline - travels with her young husband, Joshua Fielding, and his theatrical troupe to Whitby, the Yorkshire fishing village where Dracula the vampire first touched English soil in the sensational novel named after him. Joshua has arranged to produce a stage adaptation of Dracula by the daughter of Whitby millionaire Charles Netheridge during the Christmas holiday, but after the disastrous first read-through of her amteurish script, only the fact that the company is depending on Netheridge`s financial backing for their spring tour keeps them at work.
As tempers flare and wind and snow swirl around Netheridge`s lonely hilltop mansion, a black- cloaked stranger emerges from the storm - an eerily opportune arrival, for this enigmatic figure turns out to be a theatrical genius. At the same time, a brooding evil makes itself felt. Instead of the theatrical triumph that Netheridge desired for his daughter, there is murder - shocking and terrifying.


Luulin ihan toisenlaiseksi tätä tarinaa. Alkuun oli tuskallista lukea, kun ei tahtonut ymmärtää tarinasta. Vuoden verran ehti olla lähtövalmiina lootassa, mutta sitten joulun aikoihin otin tämänkin luettavaksi ja niinhän tarina alkoi kuljettaa lukijaa mielenkintoisten vaiheiden tiimellyksessä.
Nyt vihdoinkin tämä on luettu ihan viimeiselle sivulle saakka.
Juu, tässä murhattiin henkilö ja kait se syyllinenkin löytyi, vaikkei Tietääkseni tarinaan mahtuneetkaan poliisit vielä. Että tarina jäi siltä osin avonaiseksi.
Hyvä, että kirja on nyt koluttu viimoiselle sivulleen saakka ja saa todellakin jäädä odottamaan uutta kotiosoitettaan :)

Hyvää matkaa kirjalle :)

Oho, no aika jännittävä kirja on tämä, en olisi odottanut murhamysteeriä kannen perusteella. Mielenkiintoista.
Laitan kirjan saataville, kun en ole varma tuleeko luettua.
Kiitos kuitenkin kirjan postittamisesta ja kirjan matkaan sopivasta kortista, jossa kolme yöasuista natiaista kurkistaa verhojen raosta joulukuuseen kynttilää kiinnittäviä käsiä. Ja oikein hyvää uutta vuotta sinullekin!

Miitissä eteenpäin.

Last spring I visited Yorkshire and Whitby. So I couldn't resist taking this book.
Thank you very much!

Helmet-lukuhaaste 34

The first thing we saw when we came to Whitby was the Whitby Abbey which was established in 657 AD.

It was very nice to read of Caroline's life. She is the mother of Charlotte who is married to Thomas Pitt. Caroline seems to be very much like her daughter.
I would like to read the rest of these Christmas novels, too.

Bram Stoker spent some time in Whitby in 1890. He used to climb the 199 steps up to East Cliff and the abbey which stands behind the ancient parish church of St Mary while his landlady was cleaning his room.

Bram Stoker spent some time in Whitby and he found the old ruins of the abbey and St. Mary's church very inspiring indeed for his novel of Dracula. I saw only one shop selling Dracula products. There must be more I guess.

One more photo of Whitby: From the cemetery of the St. Mary's Church you can se the townscape of Whitby. I wonder how much it has changed in a hundred years...

The wood-burning stove is now covered with a cloth and decorated with pictures of fish. The stove is in the middle of the St. Mary's church and around it sat earlier the women of ill repute. They had the warmest place. Not bad at all, I think! Other people sat in their boxes or stalls of high walls. I am sure they were freezing in Winter. Nowhere else have I seen so high walls around benches.

Merry Christmas!