Whistle for the Crows
by Dorothy Eden
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Fiction. Romance. While staying at an eerie Irish castle, a woman is caught up in a family's dark secrets, in this suspenseful tale by a New York Times–bestselling author. For Cathleen Lamb, traveling to Dublin to record the history of the mystery-shrouded O'Riordan family is the answer to a prayer. Still grieving over the accident that killed her husband and baby daughter, she hopes to lose herself in other people's lives. But something sinister is going on at the ancient castle at the show more edge of the moors . . . something beyond the scandalous skeletons rattling around the O'Riordans' closets. The former heir was killed three years earlier in a suspicious fall. The same night, the family matriarch suffered a stroke that left her mute. Despite the malice that surrounds her, Cathleen is drawn to the brooding, darkly passionate man who is plotting to control the family. But even he may not be able to protect her when the crimes of the past reach into the present to terrorize the living. show lessTags
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I absolutely adored Whistle for the Crows by Dorothy Eden. The way that Eden creates her settings, the reader instantly falls right into the story like you are right alongside the characters living with them. This book is technically a romance, but it’s more heavily based on mystery with a side dish of romance.
Cathleen Lamb takes a job as a secretary to an old woman, Miss Matilda O’Riordan, who is trying to write a book about her family’s history, who used to be an important family. Cathleen had recently lost her baby, Debby, and her husband, Jonathan, and this is her first job since then. When she arrives to have an interview with the dragonish lady Miss O’Riordan, Cathleen finds a threatening letter on the floor. This was her show more first sign that maybe she shouldn’t take this job. However, of course she does. While living in the castle where Miss O’Riordan (Also known as Aunt Tilly) lives with her niece, Kitty, and her nephews, Rory and Liam, Cathleen discovers some mysterious things. The mystery really starts when she begins hearing a baby cry in the middle of the night when there are no children living there. When she tries to investigate, she finds she is stopped from all angles and is told she is crazy and just hearing her dead baby crying in her head. However, she discovers that everyone living there is keeping secrets. Who is this mysterious baby? Or is she just hearing things like everyone keeps telling her? Why all the secrets?
This book seems very tame when you are used to reading the modern romances of this era. The way that Eden was a pioneer of her time writing these romance novels is quite commendable. She has a way of drawing the reader in and keeping them captivated, even if they were hoping to read a romance. I would give Whistle for the Crows 4 out of 5 stars. I would recommend this book for anyone that likes a mystery book and also to anyone that likes romances. Even though this book is not dripping with romance, it is still a feel good romance. show less
Cathleen Lamb takes a job as a secretary to an old woman, Miss Matilda O’Riordan, who is trying to write a book about her family’s history, who used to be an important family. Cathleen had recently lost her baby, Debby, and her husband, Jonathan, and this is her first job since then. When she arrives to have an interview with the dragonish lady Miss O’Riordan, Cathleen finds a threatening letter on the floor. This was her show more first sign that maybe she shouldn’t take this job. However, of course she does. While living in the castle where Miss O’Riordan (Also known as Aunt Tilly) lives with her niece, Kitty, and her nephews, Rory and Liam, Cathleen discovers some mysterious things. The mystery really starts when she begins hearing a baby cry in the middle of the night when there are no children living there. When she tries to investigate, she finds she is stopped from all angles and is told she is crazy and just hearing her dead baby crying in her head. However, she discovers that everyone living there is keeping secrets. Who is this mysterious baby? Or is she just hearing things like everyone keeps telling her? Why all the secrets?
This book seems very tame when you are used to reading the modern romances of this era. The way that Eden was a pioneer of her time writing these romance novels is quite commendable. She has a way of drawing the reader in and keeping them captivated, even if they were hoping to read a romance. I would give Whistle for the Crows 4 out of 5 stars. I would recommend this book for anyone that likes a mystery book and also to anyone that likes romances. Even though this book is not dripping with romance, it is still a feel good romance. show less
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Dorothy Eden was born in Canterbury Plains, New Zealand on April 3, 1912. She worked as a legal secretary before moving to London, England in 1954 to become a full-time writer. She is best known for her writings in the historical, suspense, and Gothic genres. Her first novel, The Singing Shadows, was published in 1940. During her lifetime, she show more wrote more than 40 novels including Let Us Prey, The Vines of Yarrabee, Melbury Square, The Shadow Wife, An Afternoon Walk, The Salamanca Drum, and An Important Family. She also contributed to several magazines including Redbook and Good Housekeeping. She died of cancer on March 4, 1982 at the age of 69. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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