4.5 stars for The Strangers on Montagu Street (Tradd Street book 3) by Karen White.
As alluded by title of this book 3 of the Tradd Street series, the story revolves around the residence on Montagu Street, an old spooky Victorian house with a large circular turret that claims one corner of the building and culminates in a mansard-style roof.
At first glance, there seems to be no reason for the strangers on Montagu Street to be connected in any way to our female protagonist and narrator, Melanie. Nevertheless, the author manages to weave a riveting tale with perfectly valid and logical motive for Melanie to probe and uncover the secrets embedded in the roots of this prominent family hidden behind the facade of their historic house in Charleston.
Once again, the author does a superb job of creeping me out with the supernatural and paranormal aspect of the unknowns in this story such that each and every trivial sound that permeates the air in my living room while I read the book late into the night makes me jump up in my couch with a thumping heart and surreptitiously turn my head around as if I am being watched by unseeing eyes.
Though some parts of the storyline in book 3 The Strangers on Montagu Street are more predictable than the earlier 2 books (book 1 The House on Tradd Street and book 2 The Girl on Legare Street), it still ticks all the right boxes on the account of mystery, romance, suspense and the paranormal. For those who love a good spine-tingling and hair-raising story, it is definitely a book not to be missed.
Publisher: NAL; 1 edition
Publication date: 1 Nov 2011
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With her relationship with Jack as shaky as the foundation of her family home, Melanie’s juggling a number of problems. Like restoring her Tradd Street house…and resisting her mother’s pressure to ‘go public’ with her talent—a sixth sense that unites them to the lost souls of the dead. But Melanie never anticipated her new problem.
Her name is Nola, Jack’s estranged young daughter who appears on their doorstep, damaged, lonely and defiantly immune to her father’s attempts to reconnect. Melanie understands the emotional chasm all too well. As a special, bonding gift Jack's mother buys Nola an antique dollhouse—a precious tableaux of a perfect Victorian family. Melanie hopes the gift will help thaw Nola's reserve and draw her into the family she’s never known.
At first, Nola is charmed, and Melanie is delighted—until night falls, and the most unnerving shadows are cast within its miniature rooms. By the time Melanie senses a malevolent presence she fears it may already be too late. A new family has accepted her unwitting invitation to move in—with their own secrets, their own personal demons, and a past that’s drawing Nola into their own inescapable darkness…
*Blurb from author's website*
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