But mainly Carla – always she adds Carla. In fact it starts off promising, if a little stuffed with back story as we learn that Amanda is still haunted the memories of her summers eight years ago at the mansion. Sounds good doesn’t it – well at least not bad. A year after Amanda’s Grandmere has died, several cousin like friends of the family and Amanda are summoned for the reading of the will. While young Ellen was left in a state of psychosomatic muteness. Grandmere having caught the incident from her window, sent Carla away before a scandal could erupt. Let me explain by starting off with the plot –ġ8 yr old Amanda Willett is about to return to Lake Falls and Chanson du Lac her french sort of grandmother’s expansive waterfront mansion – having not been there since a tragic accident eight years ago when 16 year old psychopath Carla shoved 10 year old Ellen in the lake knowing she couldn’t swim. Lynch on the other hand seems to write, hunched over her typewriter as though making things up on the fly. It would be mean to say that Dorothy Woolfolk is the better writer between the two – so let’s just say she’s seems better organized – knowing exactly what she wants to say and where she wants to take the story. I enjoyed Miriam Lynch’s Dark Magic – which is why on a whim I dug out her other Windswept I had – Girl in the Shadows – I made it a Windswept weekend alternating between Dorothy Woolfolk and Miriam Lynch.
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