House of Whispers: Book One Of The Supernatural Properties Series (Supernatural Properties, 1)

by Margaret Lucke

Book Overview

Claire Scanlan is launching a new career in real estate and has a chance to sell a spectacular oceanview home designed by a world-renowned architect. But the home has a problem that frightens off... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809571587
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Juno Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.0" x 1.0" x 4.0"

Customer Reviews

House of Whispers by Margaret Lucke

Great read! I thoroughly enjoyed this supernatural mystery. Claire Scanlon is a likeable heroine who confronts life's challenges, both familiar and unfamiliar, with ingenuity and strength. Entertaining and fun to read! I am really looking forward to the next book in the series.

4 stars

As Claire Scanlan begins a new life, death becomes the center of it. After managing to secure the agent of record position to sell a house that sits under the cloud of tragedy and scandal; a mass murder and suicide took place there, previously unknown psychic talents awaken, allowing her to smell blood and hear whispers. The spirit of the house needs her help to bring out the truth concerning what happened there, that the actual killer did not die but lives still. This is a fact that could well cost Claire her new life and fresh chance at love. **** Like Barbara Michaels, Phyllis Whitney, and Victoria Holt, Ms. Lucke weaves a spell around her readers. Unlike modern urban fantasies, the pacing is very deliberate, taking time to build, rather than running at a perpetual motion machine, with constant action that never lets you take a breath. House of Whispers blends the old and new effectively, efficiently, and no pun intended, hauntingly. **** Amanda Killgore for Huntress Reviews.

Gives new meaning to haunted house

When I think of haunted houses, I imagine creaky floorboards, cobwebs, dark recesses, and a gray clapboard house covered by a tangle of vines inhabited by bats. House of Whispers breaks the mold, relegating its spirits and the human who encounters them to an ultra-modern, sun-filled mansion on the edge of a Pacific cliff--a home created by an award-winning architect who has become the victim of an angry son--or so the story goes. The book's heroine, Claire, a neophyte real estate saleswoman, wins the dubious honor of having to market and sell this spectacular home where, unfortunately, a great tragedy, the murder of an entire family, has taken place. Her skepticism about all things paranormal disintegrates as the spirit of one of the dead reaches out to touch her in search of justice. Her attraction to the brother of the architect/victim wavers under the shadow of suspicion. Author Margaret Lucke's prior successes in mystery writing (and teaching others to write mysteries) adds a literate and believable edge to the who-done-it aspect of the story. What a great read for an eerily sunny afternoon when chimera are least expected.

entertaining haunted house whodunit

After she catches her husband in bed with another woman, Claire Scanlon starts divorce proceedings and returns to her California hometown where she quickly shares a home with her best friend Lindsay. She obtains a realtor position with Golden Gate properties. Because she is late on her first day on the job, her boss makes her compete with another newbie Avery for the LeGrande listing. The seller Ben Grant will select the realtor of record after he meets the rivals and gets their opinions on how to show the house. The house has a dark past because the last tenants were murdered there by their son who turned his gun on himself and committed suicide. Claire smells blood when she enters the abode and hears a voice whispering. She next sees something out of the corner of her eye. Claire is shook to her bone marrow, but Ben picks her to show the house because she will know how the other potential buyers will feel. Claire and Ben become romantically involved. She goes to the house and picks up vibes that a fifth person was there during the murder-suicide. In spite of her sudden paranormal skills, Claire understands she has no mundane proof that the real killer got away with mass murder. HOUSE OF WHISPERS is a fascinating blending of romance, mystery and the paranormal. Every few chapters, the ghost talks to herself wishing she could communicate more directly with Claire so that the truth becomes known about her parents, her brother and her. Claire's reactions to what her senses find seem right as she goes from doubter to questioner to believer. Margaret Lucke provides an entertaining haunted house whodunit. Harriet Klausner