Footsteps in the dusk. Pale hounds howling through the night. Hollow-eyed children pleading for his help. And, most sinister of all, the return of an old friend, grown more powerful than ever. Daniel's life is falling apart; then Cora, his beautiful step-sister, disappears. He'll give anything to get her back ! but will he have the courage to face his own demons?
Patricia Elliott was born in London and grew up in Europe and the Far East. She has worked in publishing in London and in a children's bookshop in New York. She now teaches a course in children's literature at an adult education college. She lives in London with her husband, two sons, and a yellow labrodor named Finagal.
Read this one when I was thirteen and thoroughly enjoyed it. It was a bit of a mindfuck. Looking back I can see that maybe the plot twists were a bit ambitious but nonetheless, I'm rating the book for when I first read it and it had me turning the pages late at night. A good read indeed.