Start by marking “Wildfire at Midnight” as Want to Read: Error rating book. Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! BUY NOW FROM. I recently finished this book after picking it up from the same old bookshelf as I found. Wildfire at Midnight isn’t one of my favourite Stewart novels, and indeed the sense of dread and atmosphere in the book makes it perhaps a touch darker than the others, especially with the moral conflict in the last part where Gianetta thinks she knows who did the crime. Who knows! Gianetta Brook, a lovely young woman with a successful London modeling career and a heartbreaking divorce behind her comes to the isle of Skye for a much needed vacation. I didn't really care what the rocky cliffs and mountainous ranges looked like all that much. Did she hot foot it to the nearest policeman. However here are a couple of photos of the Isle of Skye where the story takes place and it is visually stunning. Having the cheating husband confess that his problem was pride - too proud to call her back! our heroine was independent and poised, always retaining dignity and autonomy. Wildfire at Midnight by A readable copy. Genres: "Crime, Cultural, Fiction, Gothic, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Romance, Romantic Suspense, Scotland, Suspense, Thriller". No_Favorite. Instead of peace and quiet, she is shocked by the arrival of Nicholas, her ex husband and then then by the knowledge that there has been a horrific ritualistic murder of a young girl involving the Old Religion's tradition of setting wildfire in honor of the Beltane. WILDFIRE AT MIDNIGHT. [ her philandering ex, Nicholas. Mary Stewart's mystery/romances are my chicklit. Wildfire at Midnight by Mary Stewart ~ 1956. The cast of characters include Gianetta a fashion model who is divorced from Nicholas because of his wandering eye, a lesbian couple, a movie star and a madman. Paperback. “Wildfire at Midnight” is one of those wonderful books that doesn’t grow old or passé. Fashion model Gianetta Brooke leaves her usual glamorous surroundings to go on holiday to the Scottish island of Skye, only to find that her ex-husband, writer Nicholas Drury, is staying at the same hotel in Camasunary. Because there are too many scary things lurking in the shadows here at night. Welcome back. This is a reread for me and what a great one. And, as of 2017, almost all of her work is available in e-format. the romance took center stage only at the very end, in a brief but passionate and rather charm. It documents the I curled up with this one today and polished it off in an hour. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. But even so, I did have a moment where I thought I might be wrong, so I'm way impressed with Stewart pulling it off. In this one lovely model, Gianetta, is due for some rest so she goes to Skye, an island of the coast of Scotland. is this the spooky one in the cuilins, in skye? A bit different than Mary Stewart's other romantic suspense novels, this one has echoes of the old murder mysteries where a group of people in an isolated setting are gradually offed one by one, while the group frantically tries to figure out which of them is the murderer. Wildfire at Midnight is a novel by Mary Stewart which was first published in 1956. Wildfire at midnight Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Wildfire at Midnight by Mary Stewart is an evocative mystery set on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. Bad luck her ex-husband is at the hotel too and rest is not what she gets, as a murderer is on the loose. I plan on reading more by her. Bad luck her ex-husband is at the hotel too and rest is not what she gets, as a murderer is on the loose. - as a way of making each character vivid and real. Page 142, "I turned to look back at Blaven, only to find that the mist was, indeed, rolling down the slopes behind us like a tide of smoking lava. “If anyone was to perform the classic folly of taking a midnight stroll among the murderous gentlemen with whom the hotel was probably packed, it was not going to be me.”, “It was over, the awkward moment, the dreaded moment, sliding past in a ripple of commonplaces, the easy mechanical politenesses that are so much more than empty convention; they are the greaves and cuirasses that arm the naked nerve.”. Phew! Much more of a traditional suspense than romantic-suspense, it is as wonderful a read today, as it was when first published, and Ms. Stewart should be considered among the classic authors. This is a reread for me and what a great one. It was just over two hundred pages but it felt longer than that, mainly because of all the description and some of the back and forth dialog that went nowhere. I think it’s this spectacular writing: [Having the murderer be mad is my least favorite motive ever! The news in 2014 that Mary Stewart had passed away at the age of 94 got me into rereading her classic romantic suspense books written mostly in the late 50s, the 60s and 70s. Wildfire at Midnight contained the token first-person tense, an unfaithful marriage, the heroine's need to get away and murder. In Wildfire At Midnight, death by murder is a tragedy instead of a mere plot point, and its pall affects the mood and temper of everyone in the hotel. [I never bought Grant as a potential love interest, and it struck me that Nicholas's rude behavior was exactly to be expected from someone still in love and feeling horribly jealous. Wildfire at midnight, p.20. the Isle of Skye was rendered in pleasing browns and greys, fog and wind and rain ever present, the surrounding mountainscape stark and threatening. It stopped as abruptly as an engine shuts off steam. In this one lovely model, Gianetta, is due for some rest so she goes to Skye, an island of the coast of Scotland. I curled up with this one today and polished it off in an hour. Did she hot foot it to the nearest policeman. I am so glad to have finished this. Once it becomes evident that the murderer is not done with his or her crimes, tension and fear escalates as hotel guests realise they, too, may be … Wildfire at Midnight was mostly a good read. This edition: Hodder, 1970. That sums it up nicely. A young girl is first, but other deaths fol. Stewart's Nine Coaches Waiting (Rediscovered Classics) and all of Georgette Heyer's work were what set me, as a young teen, onto a lifetime of romance reading. Wildfire at Midnight is set in Scotland’s Inner Hebrides. If you've read any of Mary Stewart's other books, apart from the Arthurian ones which are a whole different kettle of fish, you'll be pretty familiar with the formula: pretty high class woman who works for a living but has ties to the aristocracy, still girlish and a bit naive, gets swept. First published in 1956, this haunting novel of suspense and romance set in the Scottish Hebrides blends pungent description with sheer terror as only Mary Stewart can. 3.5 stars. Original Title ISBN "9781444711103" published on "1956--". It was just over two hundred pages but it felt longer than that, mainly because of all the description and some of the back and forth dialog that went nowhere. But soon that will be the least of Gianetta’s troubles, as someone is murdering hotel guests. ISBN: 0-340-01945-X. While I don't always mind the description in Mary Stewart's books, I did find it rather boring at times in this one. Tell readers what you thought by rating and reviewing this book. So when it's raining out and I'm feeling lazy and such, they're pretty much perfect for my mood. This turned out to be a rather good little thriller. Wildfire at Midnight is Mary Stewart’s second published novel. In Wildfire At Midnight, Mary Stewart created a page-turning mystery novel and threw in a reunited romance for good measure.. [And for heaven's sake, grow a spine and throw some friggin' rocks at the murderer! The State Fire Marshal’s Office is investigating after a house fire just after midnight on May 6 left one person and one of the family's dogs dead. The list of the things that don’t work for me is notable enough that I don’t quite understand how this book as a whole works so well. It is 1953 and London is teeming with coronation crowds and the excitement of Hilary's climb to Mt. We’d love your help. [ a broach that she believed belonged to a missing climber. It is set on the Isle of Skye in 1953, at the time of both the British Mount Everest expedition and Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation. So when it's raining out and I'm feeling lazy and such, they're pretty much perfect for my mood. The best chase and hide scene ever, this book is worth the read for the big stalking scene with the bad guy and the h alone, fortunately the build up to the big scene is pretty good too. Gianetta Brook, a lovely young woman with a successful London modeling career and a heartbreaking divorce behind her comes to the isle of Skye for a much needed vacation. Gianetta Brook escapes the frenzy of London during Coronation Week and her busy life as a model in favor of the peace and quiet at a hotel on the remote Isle of Skye. It is a bit of Agatha Christie as well...there is a murderer loose and it is definitely one of the fellow visitors or the townspeople involved with the hotel in which Gianetta (don't you love that name?) My rating: 6/10 From the dust jacket of the original edition, 1956: Most people came to the Isle of Skye to climb the jagged peaks of Blaven or fish the many sparkling streams. [1] Stewart herself described the book as "an attempt at something different, the classic closed-room detective story with restricted action, a biggish cast, and a closely circular plot".[2]. I'd call this fairly typical of a Mary Stewart novel: a wild and enchanting setting, beautiful description, and a suspenseful plot with a twist. Tho the romance was sub-par but typical of the time period. & then she forgot about it! by Mary Stewart. By . Model Gianetta Brooke, still bruised from the end of her short marriage, arrives at … I secretly love novels about people going on holiday and bad things happening to them in some secluded spot. I didn't really care what the rocky cliffs and mountainous ranges looked like all that much. I love Mary Stewart's books. The story is set in the mid-1950s, against a backdrop of Edmund Hillary's historic climb of Mt. This audio book is excellently narrated by the talented Lucy Paterson. Share your thoughts Complete your review. Rate it * You Rated it * 0. KIRKUS REVIEW. Wildfire at Midnight is a novel by Mary Stewart which was first published in 1956. Gianetta, above suspicion due to her more recent arrival at the hotel, finds herself divided when assisting the police, torn between old loyalties, new sympathies, and her clear civic duty. Mary Stewart is a calm and confident author; I particularly enjoyed her precise focus on certain body parts - the size and shape of one character's hands, the dancing eyes and throaty laugh of another, the deep tan matching the golden hair of a third, etc. Because it does. Her heroines are tough, smart and capable, as well as being beautiful, of course. Her parents suggest she get away from it all by going to the Hebrides to rest. [ Why after four years is Gianetta still in love with her ex husband and he with her? Gianetta Brooke came to forget… (That the mystery is pretty great - though obvious, isn’t it? EMBED (for wordpress.com hosted blogs and archive.org item tags) Want more? A young girl is first, but other deaths follow. Nicholas remains a cardboard figure and I find it hard to believe he will really change. Her heroines are tough, smart and capable, as well as being beautiful, of course. AMAZON BARNES & NOBLE GET WEEKLY BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS: Email Address Subscribe Tweet. A one-time brief description would have sufficed. Although I had read it before I still was engrossed in the action, the build up of tension and, of course, the descriptions of the area which, although not strictly accurate (they dont claim to be), are still evocative for me as I remember the landscape. This is probably more like 3.5 stars, but I'm rounding up purely because I guessed the twist, and the real murderer, correctly. Wildfire at Midnight, page 20 Select Voice: Brian (uk) Emma (uk) Amy (uk) Eric (us) Ivy (us) Joey (us) Salli (us) Justin (us) Jennifer (us) Kimberly (us) Kendra (us) Russell (au) Nicole (au) Try our free service - convert any of your text to speech! - and not “no longer traveling alone” on his research trips - coupled with that conversation Gianetta has with Alma - there’s dated, and there’s “makes me want to shake everyone for being so incredibly stupid and forgiving.” There are too many cheating husbands in this book. Mary Stewart's mystery/romances are my chicklit. Stewart was such a capable writer that she could've written a textbook and made it worth reading. It’s a cop out.) Aug 17 ~~ Oh, dear. Page 51, "The whispering stopped. Early to bed, early to rise and all that. Gianetta's late arrival to the hotel assures her innocence and the local police ask her for her help in creating their dragnet. [in spite of my reservations, I like Nicholas ... and he does a decent job of, the Isle of Skye was rendered in pleasing browns and greys, fog and wind and rain ever present, the surrounding mountainscape stark and threatening. our heroine was independent and poised, always retaining dignity and autonomy. Giannetta is terrified when the clues begin to point unerringly towards identifying Nicholas as the unknown murderer. overall this was a pleasant surprise for me, and an ideal introduction to this author. To say this book is captivating, is an understatement! I'd have believed it better if he hadn't had episodes of childlike incomprehension. Is it because I’m bitter about the fact that I can never afford to go on a real holiday? I have to say I was a little bit bothered that she took him back so easily without wanting to talk about any of it. It was a grey and drizzly day, this morning — even if it brightened up later — so I felt like turning to one of my comfort reads. However things are not what they seem. Especially after it seems that it ended rather badly and what all did he do that he was apologizing so profusely for and that would make her think that he was possibly a murderer? If you've read any of Mary Stewart's other books, apart from the Arthurian ones which are a whole different kettle of fish, you'll be pretty familiar with the formula: pretty high class woman who works for a living but has ties to the aristocracy, still girlish and a bit naive, gets swept up in some kind of mystery and manages to solve it all -- or at least be the instrument of the men solving it all -- while stumbling around and getting herself into trouble. Just want you all to know that I'm usually in bed by 9:30 or so. However here are a coupl. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wildfire_at_Midnight&oldid=1011969060, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 13 March 2021, at 21:28. Wildfire at Midnight was special as I had been on Skye for family holidays and loved the area. This was not a book easily put down. Wildfire at Midnight. the murder mystery was compelling; the murderer or murderess (no spoilers!) Get Full eBook File name "Wildfire_at_Midnight_-_Mary_Stewart.pdf .epub" Format Complete Free. was revealed in all of their madness in a wonderfully fearful set piece - the highlight of the novel. Stewart herself described the book as "an attempt at something different, the classic closed-room detective story with restricted action, a biggish cast, and a closely circular plot". It is their ability to get themselves out of tough situations that intrigue me. A one-time brief description would have sufficed. [ a broach that she believed belonged to a missing climber. Her parents suggest she get away from it all by going to the Hebrides to rest. Under her sophisticated veneer, is a vulnerable young woman still wounded and hurt by her ex husband's infidelity. Wildfire at Midnight by Mary Stewart, 9781444710984, available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. Everest and Queen Elizabeth's coronation. This essay studies The Revenger’s Tragedy as a ‘Gunpowder play’, a drama that engages with the events and the discourses of the Gunpowder Plot. Wildfire at Midnight was mostly a good read. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Blaven was already invisible, and a great wall of mist bore steadily across the glen behind us, obliterating the afternoon.". Once I sat down to really dive in to this book I read the majority in an afternoon. I have to say this was my least favorite Mary Stewart thus far. - means the motive feels like letting the air out of the tires. Download Book "Wildfire at Midnight" by Author "Mary Stewart" in [PDF] [EPUB]. November 25th 2003 Most people came to the Isle of Skye to climb the jagged peaks of … This one wasn't her best, but it was still very good, indeed. My second Mary Stewart novel. It is their ability to get themselves out of tough situations that intrigue me. 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays. It taught me technically a great deal, but mainly that the detective story , with its emphasis on plot rather than people, is not for me. The backdrop of the Cuillin threatens this tale of the Blaven (Blue Mountain) and its history of dead climbers, murders -- almost sacrificial, and doom which overhangs the visitors to the Hebrides on Skye There are plenty of secrets with madness and mayhem and the final melodramatic scene of re [3] Set against the backdrop of recent events at the time of publication—the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II and the Hillary expedition that was the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest—this romantic suspense novel now has a "bygone era" sense of time and place. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. is staying. A bit different than Mary Stewart's other romantic suspense novels, this one has echoes of the old murder mysteries where a group of people in an isolated setting are gradually offed one by one, while the group frantically tries to figure out which of them is the murderer. Gianetta Brooke, exhausted by the demands of her job as a fashion model, heads to the Isle of Skye in order to relax. [I'm mildly uncomfortable with the portrayal of mental illness here, specifically how Roderick Grant moves so effortlessly between normal behavior and his crazy times. the murder mystery was compelling; the murderer or murderess (no spoilers!) I have a collection of vintage Mary Stewart novels, and this one is only 175 pages in my 1963 paperback, so it's a very quick but enjoyable read. Wildfire at Midnight was an attempt at something different, the classic closed-room detective story, with restricted action, a biggish cast, and a closely circular plot. All the guests who were there during the time of the murder are suspects. She must discover the murderer, before he strikes again. Within days she finds herself at the small Camas Fhionnaridh Hotel at the foot of the Cuillin where fishing and mountain climbing is all the guests think about. I might have stayed up way too late so I could finish this in one sitting. The story is set in the mid-1950s, against a backdrop of Edmund Hillary's histor. The mystery component lightly blends 1953 news events with mountaineering, druid mythology and pagan ritual, along with conflicting views about the conquering of nature: heroic progress or human arrogance? Everest. Wildfire at Midnight was never my favorite (that spot goes to The Ivy Tree, with Airs Above the Ground close behind), but I liked it enough to reread over the years, and the depiction of the Isle of Skye has always stayed in my memory. Worth it. Refresh and try again. the romance took center stage only at the very end, in a brief but passionate and rather charming scene. by HarperTorch. Silence dropped like a blanket, so that in a matter of seconds the memory of the sound seemed illusory, while the silence itself surged with millions of whisperings, all equally unreal. Everest. I need to get caught up! Wildfire at Midnight Strange goings-on at a remote hotel on the Isle of Skye in the early summer of 1953 are the subject of Mary Stewart's second novel, Wildfire at Midnight . It is perhaps the most Hitchcock in nature of any of her novels. It’s very exciting, the Scottish scenery is fantastic and the characters are so interesting! We... To see what your friends thought of this book, I have a collection of vintage Mary Stewart novels, and this one is only 175 pages in my 1963 paperback, so it's a very quick but enjoyable read. What a thrilling adventure! An evocative, romantic thriller, back in print First published in 1956, this haunting novel of suspense and romance set in the Scottish Hebrides mingles pungent description with sheer terror as only Mary Stewart can. 224 pages. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less. Or I should say, murders. Everyone who wants page gripping suspense, 3.5 stars. Another for the review asap pile. Add in a dash of Separate Tables interaction among the guests at the hotel and mix in a killer among them for traditionally entertaining suspense intrigue. No, she sat down & had a smoke!!! Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of, Published 1 Star - I hated it 2 Stars - I didn't like it 3 Stars - It was OK 4 Stars - I liked it 5 Stars - I loved it. Within days she finds hers. I liked the heroine for being tough and vulnerable at times, and there were some of the secondary characters who were deeply interesting. See 2 questions about Wildfire at Midnight…, Gothic Romantic Suspense of a Bygone Era- Victorian Mansions, Mysterious Manors, Haunted Chateaux, Sinister Castles, Rambling Estates, Governesses, Heiresses, Mistresses, and Brooding Atmospheres, Classic Romantic Suspense You Can Read Now, Wildfire at Midnight (no spoilers): May 2017, Wildfire at Midnight (spoilers allowed): May 2017, 45 New YA Mysteries and Thrillers You Won't Be Able to Put Down. If you're a fan of the mystery and thriller genre and young adult books, recent months have brought a bevy of great reads to your shelves! The front of my copy of this book says "Terror in the Hitchcock manner...a novel that terrifies as it entertains." EMBED. I love Mary Stewart's books. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. But, to her dismay, her ex-husband Nicholas Drury is also staying there. Under her sophisticated veneer, is a vulnerable young woman still wounded and hurt by her ex husband's infidelity. It is 1953 and London is teeming with coronation crowds and the excitement of Hilary's climb to Mt. After two murders take place locally, suspicion falls on the hotel guests, who include an aging "femme-fatale" star stage actress, a mountaineer, a possessive climber and her ingenue apprentice, a jealous wife and philandering husband, an old acquaintance of Gianetta’s and Nicholas’s, a writer of travel guides, and a handsome local versed in pagan folklore. 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