Twilight Return

Zodiac Gothic #Cancer

by Jean Kimbro, Jean Kimbro

Non-Conformist Marjorie Trotter Accepts a job impersonating a famous actress in France at the place of her birth, in fact. There, her fascination for the occult leads her to information about a composer who has been dead for forty years and she becomes the focus of a bizarre contest. Which of the two men in her life can she really trust? Who is sending her the ominous warnings? and what role does the boy, Robert, play? The past seems to come to life to threaten Marjorie as she looks for the secret locked in the eternal twilight of the old church vault.

Genres: Gothic

455 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1976

Reviews

[MV · Rating 1 out of 5]

I've read several dull Zodiac Gothics from Ballantine Books, but I thought this one was bizarre. Our heroine Marjorie is pulled into this weird scheme in France where she must impersonate a famous actress, then participate in a weird "game" to find the famous lost works of some long dead composer guy who some believe may have been reincarnated. Meanwhile, she catches feelings for every guy in sight including a 12 year old altar boy. She has to keep stopping herself from seducing him.

The whole story is too ridiculous for me. The "gothic" aspect is lost on me. Yeah, not a fan. As always, nice cover art by George Ziel, though. I think they used the same model for nearly all of these.

Jean Kimbro is a pseudonym for John Kimbro, who wrote a Zodiac Gothic (for Berkley, not Ballantine) as Kym Allison, and those Saga of the Phenwick Women books as Katheryn Kimbrough.