Suspicion - Softcover

Rogan, Barbara

3.62

150 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0743400577 ISBN 13: 9780743400572

Publisher: Pocket Books, 2000

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As a writer of ghost stories, author Emma Roth dismisses rumors about her new Victorian house being haunted, until strange things begin to happen, and it seems as though an evil force has decided to focus its attention directly on her. Reprint.

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Review:

"Kirkus Reviews" Rogan's best so far...a winning, flat-out all-nighter.

"Publishers Weekly" This absorbing tale is artfully told...[with] rising suspense and vividly nuanced characters.

"The Poisoned Pen" The handling of the elements and the writing are masterful!

"Library Journal" Rogan weaves classic mystery and ghost-story elements together with modern technologies to create a novel that twists and turns right up to the end. A well-crafted book that is a pleasure to read.

"San Francisco Chronicle" Like Shirley Jackson, Rogan brings sophistication, skillful writing, and subtlety to the business of ghosts.

"New York Post" Completely absorbing.

"Booklist" A tightly woven thriller...Rogan builds suspense well and effectively updates the classic trappings of a ghost story. Guaranteed to keep readers turning pages into the wee hours.

"The Seattle Times""Suspicion" puts an energetic, suspenseful, and updated spin on the genre.

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An addictively compelling novel of psychological suspense where the atmosphere of fear provides a superb contrast to the excellently drawn domestic life. Emma Roth, a writer of ghost stories, is a confirmed citydweller until her scientist husband finds the perfect house, a Victorian building complete with tower, perched on a cliff above the sea.

Country life begins to grow on them and their young son, until inexplicable things begin to happen. Strange messages appear on her computer screen: someone else seems to be writing her manuscript: her son appears to be threatened. But none of these incidents happen when her husband is around, and given her past history, his disbelief isn’t surprising.

As the incursions into her life grow more dangerous, the past tragedy seems to hover more darkly over the present and every relationship she has is in ruins.

Emma Roth is both haunted and hunted. The unravelling is both spellbinding and highly satisfying.

“ A shrewd observer and a passionate writer”
NEW YORK TIMES

“Barbara Rogan has mastered the essence of the storyteller’s art”
CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER

“Barbara Rogan has a great talent for the souls of people, which is what writing is all about.”
ALAN SILLITOE

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