Review: Doesn't make any sense in the end
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 03 10, 2013
In the end this book makes no sense at all.Marion and her husband James buy an old Victorian and start to fix it up.  After Marion falls ill, forcing her to spend a lot of time in the house, she starts to live, in her dreams, the life of the people who had inhabited the house in the 19th century. She becomes obsessed by the people and ends up solving a murder that had taken place in another location.There are a lot of problems here.  The biggest problem is that after finding the second body, a suicide, the ghosts go away.  Marion claims it was because the ghosts wanted to be sure that the suicide victim had actually committed murder.  Well, they knew that when Marion discovered the first body!  If the ghost wanted was to find out if a murder had taken place and who did it, that first discovery answers the question.  There is no reason for the book to go on.Marion discovers two bodies and her lawyer husband insists that they be reburied without notifying the authorities!!! He says that they will be dragged into the legal fuss about murder.  Here in the US no one is going to have to worry about defending themselves regarding a murder that took place before they were born. I think Canadian law is similar. You call the cops. There might be some fuss but it will go away.  I don't know if they have a Bar Association in Canada, but her hubby would have to do some fast talking to keep his license if anyone ever found out he had reburied not one but two bodies.And I know ghosts aren't real and so the author can make them do whatever she wants, but isn't it generally accepted that ghosts haunt the place they died?  None of the ghosts died in the house.  Shouldn't the haunting be at the location where the first body was found, and shouldn't the ghost doing the haunting be the murder victim?And then to top things off, Marion just gives up her interest in these people.  We never find out if Rosamund had a happy life.  That was just inexcusable.The book is well edited and there are no formatting errors.