5 Stars!
In every novel, Sarah Rayne weaves a glorious Gothic sensibility, and that is particularly prevalent here, with the boarding scool in an old convent, the nuns disalpearing two centuries ago, the antique parish church, the old cottage whose cellar was part of the medieval priory. Then too is the "L'emmurer," an ancient, covert, plainchant and ritual.
This is Book Three of the Phineas Fox Musical Mysteries. Phin accompanies his love interest Arabella to the Bicentenary of her alma mater, and researches a macabre opera penned by a former, slightly mad, headmaster. That opens doors to the turbid French Revolution.
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