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    Prince of Darkness

    By Barbara Michaels

    3.5/5

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    A stranger has come to Middleburg, Maryland, a visitor from abroad with a mysterious purpose. But this quaint, affluent community has dark secrets of its own. And when the interloper, Peter Stewart, becomes involved with the bewitching, seductive ward of noted local author Kate More, the townfolk fear the chilling past they are hiding will no longer be safe. For Middleburg has a colonial history of malevolent sorceries and obscene sacrifice. And when the terrible pot is stirred, murder may be the least of the evils to emerge from the unholy brew.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 13, 2009
    ISBN9780061842450
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    Prince of Darkness
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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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    • 4/5
      Boy, is this completely different from any of the Barbara Michaels books I've read so far. Structured differently, and written with a tad more sophistication than a lot of her other romantic suspense books. Just a tad, though at first I thought I was in for something more on a level with Whitney's works. I'm sort of glad it wasn't, really, because otherwise this book would have scared the hell out of me. Instead, it was just fun, with a bit of non-visceral horror at the end. It feels like Michaels might have been taking a popular trope at the time and turning it on its side, showing it from a different perspective. The book is structured in three parts, meant to mimic metaphorically, a traditional Fox Hunt. The Meet, The Huntsman, and The Quarry. Of course, the reader is supposed to suspect the Huntsman at every turn and bemoan the weakness of The Quarry. All I'll say about any of it is that, while I definitely suspected one facet, there were many that were unexpected on their revelation. Michaels ratchets up the suspense from page one, to the point that it feels the pages themselves might snap from the tension; it's only when things come to a crisis that the book fails, just a little bit, to deliver what could have been a more explosive resolution. Mind you, it was still a good ending, and I don't know how such explosiveness might have been achieved, only that for the amount of tension built up, the release of it was slow and measured. Horrifying in its way, but not detrimental to anyone's pulse. I read this for Halloween Bingo, using it as my official Wild Card for the Classic Horror Square. It's not a classic, but the horror bit was closer to the mark than I expected.
    • 1/5
      Barbara Michaels AKA Elizabeth Peters is one of my favorite authors, but I was so offended by her references to black people as "darkies," huddled in their homes, afraid to come out on Halloween. It was just too much to overlook. The story line was OK, I guess. I probably would have enjoyed it if it weren't for the disturbing treatment of blacks.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      Ok, I admit it. Michaels got me on this one. At the beginning of the book she portrays the male protagonist as a guy you might not even want in the same room with you, and it's not until about 75 pages in that you realize his motivations aren't what you thought they were. It's a hidden identity book with a really harrowing ending involving elements of a closed society behaving very badly indeed.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 1/5
      Barbara Michaels AKA Elizabeth Peters is one of my favorite authors, but I was so offended by her references to black people as "darkies," huddled in their homes, afraid to come out on Halloween. It was just too much to overlook. The story line was OK, I guess. I probably would have enjoyed it if it weren't for the disturbing treatment of blacks.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      As always, Barbara Michaels gives a terrific cast of characters, a perfectly macbre setting, and a plot you can't shake a stick at. I would've have given the book 5 stars, but I had to take away a few points for the old 'death-bed confession' plot tool to weave it all together. That was my only disappointment. 

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      January 2, 2000Prince of DarknessBarbara MichaelsThis is probably my least favorite of Barbara Michaels’ books, though she remains pretty much my favorite author of all time. I don’t remember ever reading this one before. It came out originally in 1969, so it has to be one of her earliest works, after Master of Blacktower and The Wizard’s Daughter. The synopsis on the back of the book really reveals very little of what the story is about, and even who the protagonist is. This turns out to be Peter – at least, his POV is what the reader primarily learns the story through. All we know in the beginning is that he has come to Middleburg, MD all the way from England, and he’s on some kind of mission – and not a friendly one. He seems to be seeking retribution for something, and his target is a young ex-college professor with a particular interest in the Old Religion, Dr. Katherine More. She’s wealthy and lives as a hermit, and the reader gets a sense of extreme tragedy in her recent past – something that has made her retreat even further into a world of her own, surrounded by elements of witchcraft.You never quite know until the very end who’s involved, and it’s something of a surprise (was for me, anyway), or whether Peter will turn out to be friend or foe.The plot is great. What was lacking was the wonderful characterizations that BM is normally so excellent at. None of the characters are really fleshed out; at least not in a way that would make you care one whit about them or be interested in what happens to them. Not even Peter, the principal narrator. BM is great with fleshed-out female protagonists, and the story would have been much better if she’d stuck to that.

      1 person found this helpful