book cover of The Dying Room
 

The Dying Room

(1993)
A novel by

 
 
Publisher's Weekly
Giroux ( Death of a Dodo , etc.) turns away from her series hero, London attorney Robert Forsythe, to track the plight of a beleaguered young mother in this sluggish, melodramatic romantic mystery set in the small town of Hampton, Ontario. Karen Dancer, a career woman and widow in New York, brings her eight-year-old daughter, Jamie, to Hampton and the huge old house she lived in as a child. Soon Jamie's stuffed panda is discovered pitchforked in a barn and then her kitten is found eviscerated in the ''dying room,'' the downstairs bedroom that holds a childhood terror for Karen. Could someone be trying to scare Karen out of--or into--selling land she owns to a company that intends to build a nuclear power plant? Karen is pursued by two ardent swains as the threats escalate until finally Jamie is kidnapped. Many of Hampton's unpleasant characters who fear the outsiders a nuclear plant might bring to town are cast as red herrings to distract attention from the real culprit, a local killer whose deadly activities have raised some citizens' suspicions for years.



Visitors also looked at these books

cover of Dearest Enemy
Dearest Enemy
Kathryn Blair

Used availability for Doris Shannon's The Dying Room


About Fantastic Fiction       Information for Authors