Ghosts, old houses and family secrets distinguish the Barbara Michaels books from Elizabeth Peters’s comic archaeological mysteries. Ammie, Come Home begins with a Georgetown house, a séance and a haunting tied to earlier violence, while The Crying Child and Be Buried in the Rain likewise place contemporary women inside old houses, family histories and apparently supernatural danger. Search the Shadows and Vanish with the Rose add mystery and romance to the Gothic framework. Michaels’s books are atmospheric, witty in places and generally more interested in ghosts, inheritance and domestic secrets than in graphic horror. The strongest shelf associations are Gothic romance, haunted-house fiction and supernatural mystery for readers of Mary Stewart and older romantic-suspense traditions. Read more Less
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