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Thunder Heights

Phyllis A. Whitney

1973220 pagesabout 3–5 hours
1973
first published
  • 1973Coronet · 220 pages · ENGISBN 9780340174104
  • 1980Piatkus Books · 224 pages · ENGISBN 9780861880300
  • 2012Center Point Pub. · ENGISBN 9781611733037
  • 1981Fawcett · ENGISBN 9780449241431
  • 1976Ulverscroft Large Print · 493 pages · ENGISBN 9780854564330
  • 1987Fawcett · ENGISBN 9780449214824
  • 1991HarperCollins Publishers · ENGISBN 9780061002151
  • 1975Fawcett · ENGISBN 9780449227374

Camilla King knows little of her family history, having never met her estranged relatives. Her late father wanted it that way. But when she receives a startling invitation from her immeasurably wealthy and ailing grandfather, Orrin Judd, to return to Thunder Heights, the crumbling mansion on the Hudson where her mother died under mysterious circumstances, Camilla complies, partly out of curiosity for the family she never had, and partly because of whispers of an inheritance. What she finds there is a demanding and unwelcoming tyrant, two wraithlike aunts haunted by an unnamable grief, a cunning idler living off the Judd fortune, and her grandfather’s rigid and suspicious aide. When a series of accidents befall Camilla, she has reason to fear her homecoming may be a carefully designed trap—the same one her own mother fell prey to many years ago.

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Plot intensityEventful
Character focusSingle lead

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