House of Echoes

House of Echoes by Brandon Duffy

402 Pages

Publisher: Random House – Ballantine, Ballantine

Release Date: April 14, 2015

Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Psychological, Sci Fi

Ben is a novelist. His wife, Caroline, is recently unemployed from financial work. On a whim, Ben buys an old house in serious need for renovation. He thinks this will help give Caroline something to do. While out walking with his beagle, Hudson, they come across the remains of a deer. Later, Ben will find the head in an ominous statement. While cleaning out the basement, Ben and his son, Charlie, come across an old wooden captain’s desk. It is heavy and causes

Ben to fall through the dilapidated stairs. The desk crashes back into the basement and lays in pieces. Ben looks through the debris and finds survey maps of the area and an old bible.

Caroline and Ben go to the preservation meeting. The residents make Caroline feel uncomfortable, but Ben is energized by the experience and uses the experience to begin a new novel.

What a book. An old house, an isolated town, and an unusual community. The history of the town is key to the present. The book was slow to build then hurry up at the end. The characters are well developed, and it is written in the third person point of view. If you liked the television show, Haven, you would enjoy reading this book.