When Jason Robbins arrives at the eerie Heron House in deepest Carmarthenshire for a writing course, he soon meets its two weird servants who seem to exercise a sinister power over their scheming employer, Monty Flynn. Another newcomer is Helen Jenkins, a cook, to whom Jason is instantly attracted. Together they discover what dangers really lurk behind those ivy-clad walls; how the terrible post-war past bleeds into the present when the tormented soul of the young woman haunting them will stop at nothing to have her story told. But is the ghost's version of events to be trusted? And at what cost to Jason and Helen when they attempt to find out the truth?
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"will keep the reader on edge until the very end" Fran Lewis, New York reviewer, talk show host and interviewer. "Her writing is so distinctly unique it will truly chill you to the bone" Sally Meseg, for Dreamcatcher "Sally Spedding is a font of creepy stories, the kind of tales which wheedle their way back into your mind, hours maybe days and weeks later..." Western Mail "Spedding knows thta before delivering the set-pieces it's essential to carefully build suspense through both unsettling incident and sense of locale - at both, she's unquestoonably got what it takes." Barry Forshaw, Crime Time "Sally Spedding... has been credited with being a latter day Du Maurier..." Crime Squad "Sally Spedding is the mistress of her craft." Welsh Books Council
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Sally Spedding has won many awards including the H.E. Bates Short Story Prize and the Anne Tibble Award for Poetry. Sally is the author of five highly acclaimed crime mystery novels.
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This is a book in which the plot hits the ground running and instantly grabs the reader's attention. When Jason Robbins makes a snap decision to attend a writers' conference in deepest Wales, he has no idea he is entering a world where the past lingers. It's a dark and menacing past and it threatens to envelop and at times almost overwhelm both him and Helen Jenkins - the reluctant cook/housekeeper at the eerie old Heron House.
Jason and Helen are attractive and engaging central characters, human and real; separately and together they find themselves becoming dangerously entangled in a part of Heron House's history that dates back to 1946. The action is lively and there are a number of surprising twists - macabre and shocking twists that keep the story belting along at a cracking pace.
The writing is lovely - deft and smooth, with the eeriness of the house and the surrounding countryside subtly and skilfully portrayed. The flashbacks to the 1940s are beautifully woven in and portrayed with careful attention to period detail.
Each time I laid this book down I found myself looking forward to being able to pick it up again and find out what happened next. Very highly recommended as a really top-notch read by a gifted story-teller.
Jason and Helen are attractive and engaging central characters, human and real; separately and together they find themselves becoming dangerously entangled in a part of Heron House's history that dates back to 1946. The action is lively and there are a number of surprising twists - macabre and shocking twists that keep the story belting along at a cracking pace.
The writing is lovely - deft and smooth, with the eeriness of the house and the surrounding countryside subtly and skilfully portrayed. The flashbacks to the 1940s are beautifully woven in and portrayed with careful attention to period detail.
Each time I laid this book down I found myself looking forward to being able to pick it up again and find out what happened next. Very highly recommended as a really top-notch read by a gifted story-teller.
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5 stars
"Cold Remains" is my introduction to the novels of Sally Spedding, and now I am determined to find and read more. This is a novel that will not surrender its hold on my mind. The storyline is brutal, violent, abusive; yet compelling, riveting, intriguing. I found myself frequently with jaw dropped at the hubris and arrogance and conceit of many of the characters, and simultaneously cheering on "the good guys," Helen and Jason and Bestsan and Gwylim and others. Yes, there are really good guys (and women) on the police departments here also; just as there is real present evil in all walks of life. Like turning over a stone and finding maggot-ridden meat, this novel turns over the facades of upscale life (and those in poverty as well) and uncovers the good and the evil concealed within.
Circling around Heron House in rural Wales, present and past, is a conglomeration of individuals, very few of whom tell the truth, or even are honest about their identities and purposes. Formerly the home of a wealthy judge, Heron House is now "run" by Monty Flynn, supposedly a best-selling writer, and the weirdest pair of servants since-well, at least since Daphne du Maurier's "Mrs. Danvers." Helen, art graduate, is hired to cook, and Jason is the first of several prospective authors-to-be. What they find is the most complex, incredible, yet realistic Gordian knot I've read of in a very long time-if ever.
I received an e-book copy via NetGalley in return for my fair and impartial review.
5 stars
"Cold Remains" is my introduction to the novels of Sally Spedding, and now I am determined to find and read more. This is a novel that will not surrender its hold on my mind. The storyline is brutal, violent, abusive; yet compelling, riveting, intriguing. I found myself frequently with jaw dropped at the hubris and arrogance and conceit of many of the characters, and simultaneously cheering on "the good guys," Helen and Jason and Bestsan and Gwylim and others. Yes, there are really good guys (and women) on the police departments here also; just as there is real present evil in all walks of life. Like turning over a stone and finding maggot-ridden meat, this novel turns over the facades of upscale life (and those in poverty as well) and uncovers the good and the evil concealed within.
Circling around Heron House in rural Wales, present and past, is a conglomeration of individuals, very few of whom tell the truth, or even are honest about their identities and purposes. Formerly the home of a wealthy judge, Heron House is now "run" by Monty Flynn, supposedly a best-selling writer, and the weirdest pair of servants since-well, at least since Daphne du Maurier's "Mrs. Danvers." Helen, art graduate, is hired to cook, and Jason is the first of several prospective authors-to-be. What they find is the most complex, incredible, yet realistic Gordian knot I've read of in a very long time-if ever.
I received an e-book copy via NetGalley in return for my fair and impartial review.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By timeisariver
Format:Paperback
Cold Remains, Sally Spedding's 7th novel isn't a read for the faint hearted or prudish and certainly shouldn't be read after dark!
Unrolling at a cracking and scary pace it's guaranteed to make your hair stand on end and your flesh crawl, and there are plenty of flesh crawling moments between these covers. Impetuous protagonists Jason and Helen are up against a cast of deeply unpleasant and deviant characters moving through vivid and claustrophobic landscape, house, past and present which keep you turning the pages.
Jason and Helen.......and the sly and evil Davieses are worth a sequel.
Yvonne Mitton aka Barry Wenden
Unrolling at a cracking and scary pace it's guaranteed to make your hair stand on end and your flesh crawl, and there are plenty of flesh crawling moments between these covers. Impetuous protagonists Jason and Helen are up against a cast of deeply unpleasant and deviant characters moving through vivid and claustrophobic landscape, house, past and present which keep you turning the pages.
Jason and Helen.......and the sly and evil Davieses are worth a sequel.
Yvonne Mitton aka Barry Wenden
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