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| Wildfire at Midnight (Coronet Books) | 
 enlarge | Author: Mary Stewart
Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks
Category: Book
List Price: £6.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 257830
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Impression
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.3 x 0.8
ISBN: 034001945X
EAN: 9780340019450
Publication Date: September 19, 1991
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Good reading but slightly disappointing characters February 1, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I should admit that I expected more from the book. And somehow main characters were not particularly attractive and interesting to me but may be it's just me ...
 the first of this author's wonderful books January 25, 2007
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Mary Stewart's gorgeous romantic thrillers enlivened many a dull afternoon for me as a teenager, and even today, I just love going back again and again into their enchanted atmosphere. This is, I believe, the very first of Mary Stewart's novels(first published in 1956) and it bears all the hallmarks of her distinctive style--a spirited, lively, but slighly disillusioned heroine-narrator; two love interests of whom one will prove to be dangerous, though you can never pick which; fabulous setting(in this case, Skye), lyrical writing which nevertheless never gets bogged down in too much description, and a gripping mystery, laced with lots of suspense. A delicious concoction, to be savoured slowly, like good chocolate!
Creepy Hebridean Hotel Mystery April 1, 2005
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
When I was a child in the 1970s we were on a holiday on the west coast of Scotland and by chance, taking refuge in the car from the torrential summer downpour in the barren square of Portree, my father turned on the radio. What came on was a creepy, disturbing drama set on Skye. A young woman, the only visitor to this country hotel not on the suspect list for a grizzly murder is sitting in the dead of night by the unconscious body of another would-be victim of the murderer. "How appropriate!" my mother laughed, and we listened on. The landscape of the story was the same landscape that was around me, though I couldn't see it for the rain, and there were strange characters, a crazed climber, beltane fires and murder. I thought it was great and it really, really stayed with me. It was years later that I read Wildfire at Midnight and realised that this was the self-same story I'd heard as a child. It's cracking, unashamedly romantic, but really rather well written. A good read for a sick day tucked up on the sofa, or a quiet night in. Mary Stewart's great - if only new pulp fiction could manage the same alluring balance of literary poise and good swash-buckling plots. No one else does it as well.
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