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Calvary Gaol, standing bleak and forbidding on the Cumbrian hillside, exerts a curious influence over Georgina Grey. Her family's history is closely bound up in the penitentiary’s dark and terrible past. Television presenter Chad Ingram is fascinated by Calvary as well. He plans to conduct a new experiment in the long-vacant structure within the brooding desolation of the old execution chamber. Chad's experiment and Georgina's curiosity, however, will have horrifying consequences. Someone is dead set on suppressing the truth of Calvary, and is willing to go to any lengths to ensure that its shocking past remains buried.
- Sales Rank: #2558974 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Simon n Schuster UK
- Model: 5084193
- Published on: 2009-05-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.00" h x 1.40" w x 4.50" l,
- Binding: Paperback
- 560 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
Review
"Equal parts Daphne Maurier, Josephine Tey and Ruth Rendell, Rayne possesses super storytelling skills." —US Mystery Guild
"She has a crisp and intelligent style, and a real way with tension." —Mo Hayder
"When you get halfway through, you won't be able to stop....The varied cast of characters are so well-drawn that they get under your skin long before you reach the gripping climax." —Big Issue, on Tower of Silence
"The author knows how to weave a tense and gripping tale, providing bumps and jolts along the way." —Bookseller
About the Author
Sarah Rayne is the pseudonym of a well-known British author. She is the award-winning author of several suspense novels, including Spider Light.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Everything but the kitchen sink
By Cathy G. Cole
Georgina Grey's lover and partner is gone, leaving both her and their design firm severely in need of funds. When Georgina receives a letter informing her that she may inherit a bit of money from the Caradoc Society, she leaves at once for Cumbria. What she doesn't realize is that she will be learning a great deal about her family, for her great-grandfather had been a doctor at nearby Calvary Gaol in the late 1930s. As Georgina is settling in to straighten out the details of her bequest, Chad Ingram and his team are finalizing their own plans to document the strange and possibly supernatural goings on at the prison. Just how dangerous is Calvary Gaol?
The Death Chamber is chockfull of possibilities that just don't pan out. There are too many characters in too many decades, and it rapidly becomes difficult to keep them all straight. There are too many competing plot threads: Georgina and her bequest, Ingram and his television program, one of the wardens during the World War I era steps in with his agenda, a few of the condemned prisoners have their own plot threads, as do a couple of the gaolers. There's another warden, another prison doctor, a blind journalist who's supposed to be helping Ingram, and a strange little man in charge of the soon-to-be-defunct Caradoc Society who reminds me more than a bit of Norman Bates. Are you confused yet? By the time I got to the end of this 500+ page epic, I almost didn't care about who had done what to whom or about anyone's true identity.
For this book to succeed with me, Rayne would have had to change guns and ammunition. Instead of a shotgun loaded with buckshot, she would have needed to switch to a rifle and one bullet. What am I talking about? Focus on one character, and have most of the action revolve around that one person. With characters, action and decades pruned back, Rayne's skill at the "creep factor" would be shown to much greater advantage. More than once, her scenes of Calvary Gaol gave me the first pricklings of goosebumps:
"As the hours went by Walter could no longer tell which were the furtive conversations of the warders and which was the sighing of the wind. The impression that something invisible and implacable was stirring in Calvary's bones grew on him. Something creeps into the place, the prisoner had said in the infirmary. Something creeps in..."
With a reduced cast and better targeted action, The Death Chamber would have held my interest from first page to last. As it is, it was a bit of a muddle that I only finished hoping that my confusion would lift. It didn't.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Worth a read for the concept, atmosphere and core handful of interesting characters.
By Helen Simpson
The story is set mostly at Calvary Gaol which was built in 1790, sits on a hill in Cumbria and dealt with "an average of eight hangings a year".
Switching between events in 1917, 1938 and the present day we follow various characters, some more realistic than others. The historical interest was excellent, from the storyline of Clara Caradoc and her visits to Violette and Bartram Partridge to the genuinely tense atmosphere and mixed feelings when an execution was imminent at the gaol.
Walter Kane is one of the key character in this rather drawn out tale which is spread over nearly a century. We first meet him as a child visiting his father, an Irishman who so hates the English and believes he is fighting for the 'cause', he is about to be hanged for selling information to the Germans during WWI. In 1938 after completing his training, Walter returns to Calvary to work as the prison doctor and we meet a different generation of prisoners.
Georgina Grey is the present day lynch pin and she meets Chad Ingram and his team who are planning to make a television programme about possible haunted places. This was where I felt the story fell down. I didn't particularly warm to the modern day characters, and found their conversations weak and naive and the fact that someone wanted the hidden truths behind Calvary to stay just that, hidden, seemed just as unlikely. The earlier twists which involved Neville Fremlin and Elizabeth Molland were good but all in all I felt that the author had tried to fit too much into one book and it just resulted in weakening the over all story.
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
A mixed basket
By Nadine JAC
I wanted so much to like The Death Chamber. I bought the book on the strength of the opening paragraph--where Rayne pulled the reader in with her description of Georgina reading a letter a second and a third time because it was so astonishing--and then, by thirty pages into the book, I began to feel my hopes slipping.
While The Death Chamber has a great many strong points, the dialogue is not one of them. It feels like a classic case of telling rather than showing, and the first instance of dreadful dialogue occurs very early on with Georgina's phone chat with her accountant, where everything the reader ever wanted to know about Chad Ingram is revealed in a few short minutes.
Further on the negative points: the love story between Lewis Caradoc and the prison warden Belinda Skelton reads badly, so badly I was actually embarrassed for the author for penning something so dreadful. Their sex scene is a kind of train wreck situation where you want to look away but just can't.
Too many of the characters (Saul Ketch, Denzil McNulty, Vincent Meade) are villains without a clue, and the various responses of the heroes to their machinations are all covered in ways that don't feel true to character. Lewis Caradoc is one minute an educated man, then an almost campy one, then a horny one, then a ballsy one, then a sentimentally stupid one, and while this may be true to humanity, in the text it reads as if the author has no comprehension of who her character is. The changes in tone are frequent and make the text feel uneven and occasionally undirected. Walter Kane fares slightly better, but the resolution of his storyline feels uncomfortably tacked on at the end, like a late addition incorporated to satisfy the readers in desire of sentiment.
Denzil McNulty never reads believably as one so obsessed with the paranormal as to be willing to blackmail everyone he's ever met, because while the author tells us this is so, she hasn't provided actual detail about it to round out the character. He's one-dimensional, annoying and flat, and it's hard to believe that he's the major antagonist. Saul Ketch is insufferably stupid, and while this is definitely the author's intent, it is unfortunate that it comes across as heavy-handed as a slap to the face. Subtlety is not a word in Rayne's vocabulary, it seems. The one point in Saul Ketch's favour is that he's not blind to the real character of the infamous female prisoner.
So, the decent parts of The Death Chamber: the twists of the Neville Fremlin/Nicholas O'Kane/Elizabeth Molland plot were suitably satisfying, though one or two did strain my suspension of disbelief almost to breaking point; Jude Stratton and Clara Caradoc were superbly and authentically characterised; the historical detail was confidently well-handled; the odd moments of humour served to break the tension; Phin was a pleasant surprise, an American character in British fiction who was depicted as neither arrogant nor stupid, but with a sincere sense of naivety; the sense of unease surrounding executions aptly depicted familiar feelings to the concept of capital punishment; the extracts from Talismans of the Mind were cleverly written and made for excellent clues; and Calvary Gaol itself was beautifully described.
If you read The Death Chamber for the plot and the historical aspects alone, you will have a very pleasing read. But if you're the kind of reader who questions characterisations, as well their justifications, if you tend to be critical and observant of faults in dialogue, you may find it wanting. With some craftier editing, The Death Chamber may have been an excellent read. As it stands, it's a mixed basket of delights and disappointments.
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