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Vanish with the Rose

Vanish with the Rose | Barbara Michaels

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Fearing for the safety of her missing brother, lawyer Diana Reed will do anything to get to the truth. Taking a job as a landscape architect at the last place Brad was seen—the sprawling estate where he worked as a caretaker—she prowls the strange old house determined to unlock its secrets. But each mystery Diana uncovers is more unsettling than the last, as odd visions, scents, and sounds pervade an atmosphere of dread and barely suppressed violence. And in her zealous search for answers, she may have inadvertently opened a door to something frightening and deadly that can never be closed again.

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Vanish with the Rose | Barbara Michaels

Meh

so-so

Barbara Michaels is a pen name for Barbara Mertz, who also wrote as Elizabeth Peters. I've tended to enjoy her books written as Peters more (they're more humorous, I think?) and have found her Michaels books to be a little hit or miss. They tend towards the melodramatic. Here, Diana has shown up to the home of a rich couple, while pretending she is a landscape architect. We don't find out why she's trying to sneak into their household until ā¬‡

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) about a hundred pages in, I think because Michaels was trying to get the reader hooked before revealing just how incredibly weak this plot point is. It worked, because I did want to see how things played out, but overall there were a LOT of holes in this one, and I didn't like the characters well enough to make up for it. Not terrible, not great.

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Vanish with the Rose | Barbara Michaels

"The approaching storm cast a tarnished metallic luster over the landscape."

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