House of Many Rooms

This book was a mind twister. Very different plot from other thriller's I have read. I have to admit, I felt for Therese, and could not wait to find the outcome for her. It does seem a little unreal how Rebecca came back into Therese's life and virtually took her away from Michael and Devon, in a sense, to easy. The best part of this book is the twisted plot of Michael and Devon. I wish the ending would have went into a little more detail of Therese's new life. Good book overall.

This would make a great Hollywood formula movie. But despite it's predictability and Hollywood ending, it keeps you guessing, as confused as the heroine is over who to trust and who to believe. A great read for a rainy afternoon like today; even while I was second guessing the characters and waiting for the ending I expected, I couldn't put it down!

What a great read. The story between the mother and the daughter was just so wonderfully written. The characters were amazingly real, not one-dimensional, but the bad mixed in with the good, like in real life. The ending was a real nerve-stretcher. Highly recommended reading. Wish there were more books like this and less that are screenplays for Bruce Willis.

I have read this author's two previous novels and loved them both. I've been waiting a long, long time for this one to come out! House of Many Rooms isn't just a thriller, but a psychologically fascinating study of human relationships. The heroine's situation is one that really intrigued me. It struck as me as so horribly possible. The climax is a real whirlwind, that left me breathless and wanting more. Highly recommended.

In San Francisco, the high society marriage between Michael and Barbara Florio is breaking up. One of their two adopted children, thirteen year old Therese is a known firebug, who has been quietly accused of setting off some recent fires in the Florio mansion. Barbara dies in the latest blaze. Before the police can arrest Therese as a murderer, Michael takes her and his other daughter Devon to a remote site in Italy. Dr. Rebecca Carey recognizes the picture of Therese she spots in a magazine. Therese is her natural daughter, who she gave up for adoption years ago when she was struggling to make it. She has always regretted her decision and decides to rescue her baby. She tracks the Florios to Italy where she meets the charismatic Michael and Therese, who seems somewhat retarded due to neglect. Rebecca must decide whether to trust the man who might have killed his spouse and left her daughter in a poor mental state, or abduct her child and flee into the night. HOUSE OF MANY ROOMS is a captivating suspense filled thriller due to the wonderfully developed characters and their interrelationships. The story line is fast-paced, though slows down unnecessarily at times. Fans of suspense thrillers will want to read Marius Gabriel's latest offering. Though the characterizations are not people redily unerstandable, discoveing what they are all about makes the book even more delightful. Harriet Klausner