Content levels
Hero archetypes
Heroine archetypes
Protagonist archetypes
Synopsis
Deborah Lindsay sought peace and security when she accepted the post of governess to a teenage girl. Instead she found terror and murder... Isolated in the Gilmartin ancestral home in Herondale, Deborah and young Carreen were left to face a nameless, unseen danger lurking in the frozen village, where only the flick of a curtain at a window or some random footprints in the snow, showed that it was inhabited at all. Alone in a house that had known violence, Deborah turned to Carreen's cousin Jeremy, as attractive as he was cynical and mysterious. But was he really a friend, or was he the enemy? In spite of Jeremy - or because of him? - Deborah found herself fighting for her life in an affair so bizarre as to shatter the silence of Herondale forever.
Is The Silence of Herondale appropriate for my child?
Suitable for most readers 10 and up.
Middle grade gothic mystery with atmospheric terror, an isolated setting, and implied violence including murder. No graphic content, but sustained suspense and danger create genuine tension appropriate for confident middle grade readers.
What to know going in
This book has moderate violence, no sexual content, and clean language. Content notes include murder, violence, and isolation.
Who'll love this
A governess must solve a deadly mystery in a silent, snow-bound village where danger lurks and she can't trust anyone—not even the handsome cousin who might be friend or foe.