by Peter James
(1992)
Publisher: Orion
Francesca Monsanto meets a man and his son racing to catch a train. It is a meeting she never anticipated, but one that was meant to be. As their relationship develops the coincidences that brought them together to take on a dangerous aspect.
A young boy watches his mother die. A sadistic man dies in agony. Drunk students play with an Ouija board in a damp cellar. Can bricks and mortar retain imprints of the emotions experienced within them?
Frannie is delighted when a chance meeting with a handsome man and his son leads to a romance. The fact that the relationship is marred by gruesome tragedies, she dismisses as an unsettling coincidence.
But eventually, she can no longer ignore the fact that she is the only thing linking these horrible events. Is it a murderous practical joke?
Or worse … ?