Susan Howatch is an author whose international best-sellers have sold in the millions. These three novels, originally published in the Sixties, are among her finest works of intrigue and suspense.
Expecting this older mystery to be dated and predictable, I was agreeably surprised at finding it engaging and, well, mysterious. Sometimes the outcomes in older books are ridiculously easy to foresee, but The Dark Shore kept me guessing most of the way through. The descriptions of Cornwall are good, and Howatch is a skilled writer, one who improved over time but was never half bad. Enjoyable.
Worth reading
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
A detective story, close to the "How done it?" genre. Most of te time it keeps the reader suspense, although most of the time it gets to imaginary. Certainly, this isn't a "must have" book, but a light and nice book...
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