The Silence of Herondale

by Joan Aiken

First published 1964 · 185 pages

About this book

Deborah Lindsay sought peace and security when she accepted the post of governess to a teenage girl. Instead she found terror and murder...

Isolated in the Gilmartin ancestral home in Herondale, Deborah and young Carreen were left to face a nameless, unseen danger lurking in the frozen village, where only the flick of a curtain at a window or some random footprints in the snow, showed that it was inhabited at all.

Alone in a house that had known violence, Deborah turned to Carreen's cousin Jeremy, as attractive as he was cynical and mysterious. But was he really a friend, or was he the enemy? In spite of Jeremy - or because of him? - Deborah found herself fighting for her life in an affair so bizarre as to shatter the silence of Herondale forever.

  • Psychoanalysis
  • Pathological Psychology
  • English literature
  • Fiction, mystery & detective, general

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