Bright, warm rooms have turned cold and uninviting shadows now fall unexpectedly and Eve senses a presence moving through the garden. And, like its owner, Les Genévriers is also changing.
Though Eve knows he bears the emotional scars of a failed marriage-which he refuses to talk about-his silence arouses suspicion and uncertainty. Set in the lush countryside of Provence, Deborah Lawrenson's The Lantern is an atmospheric modern gothic tale of love, suspicion, and murder, in the tradition of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca.ĭrawn to a confident and artistic wealthy older man she barely knows, bookish Eve recklessly embarks on a whirlwind affair that soon offers a new life and a new home-Les Genévriers, a charming yet decaying hamlet nestled amid the fragrant lavender fields of Provence.īut with autumn's arrival the days begin to cool-and so, too, does Dom.
This haunting tale is everything you could want in a Gothic mystery that doesn't also include a heroine named Jane Eyre." - Redbook "A whirlwind love affair, a wife who dies under mysterious circumstances, and a string of murder-and ghosts!-all set in a crumbling countryside estate in Provence.
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