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The House
on Cold Hill |
Peter James'
The House on Cold Hill is one spooky, haunted-house mystery. I will give it that. Whether it breaks new ground is an altogether different question. When the Harcourts, Ollie and Caro along with their daughter Jade, relocate from the city for a dilapidated countryside Gregorian mansion in Sussex, little do they realise that in doing so they have set in motion a chain of terrifying paranormal events beyond their control, forcing the unsuspecting family to discover the true horror of
the house on Cold Hill, which by then is all too late. The story's bucolic British backdrop is quite unsettling, but if you get past that, there is little by way of exciting and new beyond what has been already explored in countless similar novels. Fairly engrossing this haunting, but blood-curdling it is not.
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