Lady Julia is the young wife of Sir Edward Grey. At a party organized at home, at Grey House, Edward, very sick man, died in the presence of his wife and a strange man Nicholas Brisbane, the private detective. Some time later, Brisbane will entrust Lady Julia that her late husband was the target of threatening letters and that he was murdered. Therefore, the young woman will not have more than one idea in mind, find the murderer of her husband. If I had to summarize this novel in a word would: Surprising. At first I was waiting at a detective novel Agatha Christie style of romance. But in fact, The Silence of Grey House is much more. From the beginning the author takes us a journey through time to find himself 19th in the late Victorian England. I, who normally am not a fan of the great descriptions loved ones Deanna Raybourn. No heaviness, just enough to put us in the mood both in decorations, clothes conventions. Through Lady Julia, we will learn to live at that time and it's really interesting. The characters are also little nuggets. We attend, as and measuring our reading, the evolution of Lady Julia. She spends young woman cleared a person who lets himself be guided by his instincts. Admittedly, his family, the March, is excellent and shifted. Brisbane is as beautiful as it is mysterious ... a riddle unto itself ^^! Even the secondary characters are described with delicacy and all have a little extra that makes it out of the ordinary. As for the investigation itself, it was long since I had not been surprised like that ... I do not say more;) Basically I loved this novel. We can not say this is a book to the beach because given its size (500 pages and wheelbarrows) you may fine sunburn but you can put it in your suitcase is a great value ... The only problem is that at the end ... we want more: s Highly following: p [...]
