I picked up a copy of Tim O’Rourke’s Moonlight as an Amazon freebie.

When eighteen-year-old Winter McCall is offered a chance to leave her life of poverty behind on the streets of London, she moves to a remote part of the South West of England. Here she takes up the job as housekeeper to the young and handsome, yet mysterious, Thaddeus Blake.

Warned that he has some curious habits, Winter soon realises that not all is as it firsts appears at the remote mansion where she now lives and works.

Blind to the real danger that she is in, Winter finds herself becoming attracted to Thaddeus, and with nowhere and no one to run to, she slowly succumbs to his strange requests. But none of them are as strange as asking Winter to stand each night in the moonlight.

My Review:

I passed a pleasant evening with Moonlight, but anyone who has ever read Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Adventure Of The Copper Beeches will find this plot immanently familiar and predictable (just with a paranormal twist). As I have read Doyle’s works it took a little of the fun out of it for me. I pretty much knew where the book was going from very early on. Despite that, I enjoyed O’Rourke’s writing style and Thaddeus’ personality (even if Winter didn’t do too much for me) and Michelle, Claude, and Nate are fearsome foes. For a quick read, Moonlight is well worth picking up.