Latham's Landing II: Return to Cairn Isle

Latham’s Landing, Book 2

De: Tara Fox Hall

Narrado por: Jennifer Fournier

Latham’s Landing is a cursed island mansion that dwells like a sitting spider on a long clear lake in the Northeast. Red granite stones make its skeleton. Lights form at night in its windows, though the electricity there has been off for some time. Winding out from the isle is a long narrow stone bridge that snakes to a house of glass known as The Sea Room. On some nights, The Sea Room also lights up, burning like a pyre of Hell as Cairn Isle welcomes new victims. Winds tend to come up out of nowhere, becoming tempests of lightning and rough waves in mere minutes that overturn boats with childish ease. Time passes differently there, the hours slipping away like minutes. Stories of ghosts and disappearances abound, and it is hard to say what is truth and what comes from fear. For the isle wears an unspeakable menace like a permanent cloak, and none who come close enough to see anything—and live to tell about it—ever tell all that they have seen.

Until now.

Frustrated that Cairn Isle has claimed another new batch of victims, retired police Chief Stahl strikes back, buying the property and flooding Cairn Isle, stopping the killings. Yet black hissing shadows and worse haunt the island shore, venturing inland. People begin to disappear. Island survivor Barb, reporter Cheer, pastor Maryanne and even the psychic Jean Bane join with Stahl in an effort to destroy the evil forces of Cairn Isle at all costs.

©2024 Tara Fox Hall (P)2025 Tara Fox Hall

Really good, scary mystery

I am so happy that we got a follow-up to the first book. There are familiar characters from the first one and I loved this one even more. Instead of it being multiple stories at this old gothic house on an island, several of the characters have come together to try to solve the mystery of Latham's Landing and what is the evil haunting the house and the island. A lot of mystery as our group tries to figure out what really happened on the island in the past and how it affects what is going on now. I loved this book and am so happy the author decided to write a second one. The narrator is one of my favorites, so this book was a win-win for me.