The Waiting Room (Paperback)

from jan.fleming

The retired rock star, Martin Stride, lives a blissful happy family life with his beautiful wife and children on their sprawling rural estate. On the very edge of their grounds stands the waiting room, an old run down building...all that remains of Shale Point Station a reminder of a long since v...

from scot2

Good victorian mystery. The policeman was a working class, salt of the earth type. The servants were an enjoyable mix of personalities. The wealthy employers were not very likeable spoiled people. Altogether an enjoyable book. A couple of nice twists near the end.

from bibliobeck

I really enjoy Cottam's writing and had this book on pre-order for months, so when it arrived, I gobbled it up! A ghostly Edwardian waiting room on a retired rock star's land is the setting for Cottam's latest spooky read. Once again he draws on the early part of the 20th Century to provide his h...

from Johnny1978

Appalling doesn't really cover it. This is a lazily written, uninspiring and iritating novel. Its promising beginning leads on to an unlikely plot with a ridiculous denouement. Julian Creed (such subtle sign-posting) is a TV psychic and a fraud who is confronted by a very real haunting on the est...

from brillow51

Do not read this book alone in a room with a closed door and a lamp lit low. My son walked in on me reading this and I jumped a few feet up in the air. Even though the story was very eloquently and elegantly told, I would not give this four stars because there were too many subplots that got in t...