Devil-May-Care
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.87 (685 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0786158530 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 527 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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Unwittingly, she has aroused a terrible vengeance that is now aimed at her.. In the carefree days before marriage and new responsibility, she decides to house-sit at Aunt Kate's palatial estate in Burton, Virginia. With its nearly invisible housekeepers and plethora of pets, Ellie feels right at home. Ellie is young, rich, in love, and engaged. But when she opens an antique book about the town's aristocracy, she finds disturbing secrets that extend to her own family. Suddenly, Ellie's interest in the past is attracting a slew of unwelcome guests--some of them living and some, perhaps, not
"There's mirth as well as mayhem in Peters's mysteries, and Grace Conlin reads with a mischievousness.Her arch delivery reinforces Peters's descriptions of unlikable people, Ellie's stuffed-shirt fiancé in particular, but her voice warms when impersonating Ellie's eccentric aunt or Ellie herself." --AudioFile
Elizabeth Peters (1927-2013) was a New York Times bestselling author whose novels were often set against historical backdrops. She earned a PhD in Egyptology at the University of Chicago. She was a member of the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, DC, and won a Helen Hayes Award in 1988
"Mysterious Happenings at Aunt Kate's" according to Frances Shaw. Pretty darn good. I hate to admit it, but this is the first book I've read by Barbara Mertz (aka Barbara Michaels and Elizabeth Peters), but it won't be the last. (I have already begun on her Amanda Peabody series.) Ellie, a young woman from the city, promises to house sit her aunt's mansion in rural Virginia, and all kinds of hallucinations,. Peabody she's not I love Ms Peters' books that take place in Eqypt with the daring, loveable, and eccentric Emerson family and their friends. I know when I start one of these books, there won't be any chores done until I finish the whole thing.I can't say the same for Ellie, the heroine, of this story. It might just be that I am more interested ancient Egypt t. J Davis said A bit of the paranormal?. This is an unusual Elizabeth Peters' mystery, but I found it an enjoyable read. Elli is a young woman engaged to a self-centered, social-climbing attorney. She is going to house sit for her eccenentric, old aunt who lives in a mansion with an assortment of pets. Shortly after her aunt leaves on vacation, ghostly events start happening. Elli d