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    The Dark on the Other Side

    By Barbara Michaels

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    Everywhere she turns, Linda Randolph hears voices: from empty dark corners and lonely rooms. But it is the house itself that speaks the loudest, telling Linda to run for her life. Her husband, Gordon, the noted statesman and scholar, suggests she's losing her mind. Linda almost hopes it's true, because the alternate explanation is too terrible to contemplate: that Gordon is intimately involved with dark, diabolical forces beyond the scope of the natural and rational. Either Linda Randolph is half-mad ... or her husband is pure evil.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 13, 2009
    ISBN9780061843884
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    The Dark on the Other Side
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    Barbara Michaels

    Elizabeth Peters (writing as Barbara Michaels) was born and brought up in Illinois and earned her Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Chicago's famed Oriental Institute. Peters was named Grandmaster at the inaugural Anthony Awards in 1986, Grandmaster by the Mystery Writers of America at the Edgar® Awards in 1998, and given The Lifetime Achievement Award at Malice Domestic in 2003. She lives in an historic farmhouse in western Maryland.

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    • 5/5
      One of Barbara Michael's best, that I had not read. Very suspenseful and exciting. Very well written.
    • 3/5
      This is an interesting novel from Barbara Michaels. It's actually from two points of view- Linda, the wife of a celebrity and Michael, his biographer. Michael doesn't understand how Gordon could be married to a drunk, until he realizes that Linda has more sinister issues.
    • 4/5
      January 23, 2000The Dark on the Other SideBarbara MichaelsAnother early work of BM’s, still with that 70’s dark, insanity-tinged atmosphere. Must have been a popular theme then. The main character(s) are always deeply troubled and a little nutty - the predecessors, I suppose, of the more traditional, “nice girl caught up in an extraordinary event” types.Linda Randolph may or may not be going insane, and by all appearances seems to have tried to kill her filthy rich and handsome husband, Gordon. Gordon is the long-suffering mate, trying to bear his wife’s illness bravely. Hmmm.Michael Collins gets involved when he’s asked to paint a portrait of Linda – one of those things rich people have done, I guess. All he can see at first is that for some reason, Linda Randolph drinks too much and more importantly, seems to really hate her husband. She also has a terrible fear of dogs. Even the word “dog” is enough to make her nearly keel over in a faint. You find out why that is later. She says she’s being haunted by a par of giant, black dogs – devil dogs. Proof of her nuttiness? Michael thinks so – at least at first.Though it’s not too obvious in the beginning, the witchcraft / supernatural element comes out shortly – a subject that is fairly prevalent in quite a few of BM’s books, if not all. Things do unfold at a good pace, and learning “who is what” is scary and compelling. Again, as with Prince of Darkness, I just didn’t like the protagonists all that much, especially Linda. Though I don’t want them to be goody-goody (yuck), they need to at least be likable…