John Harwood
Seance
Set in Victorian England, Harwood's spellbinding second novel (after
The Ghost Writer) pays homage to such 19th-century suspense masters
as Wilkie Collins and Sheridan LeFanu. When orphaned gentlewoman
Constance Langton inherits Wraxford Hall, a derelict mansion on the
Suffolk coast, from an aunt she has never met, the lawyer handling the
conveyance warns her to sell the hall unseen.
