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Daughter of the Stars (1994)

de Phyllis A. Whitney

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Children's book author Lacey Elliot travels to Harper's Ferry in West Virginia to solve her father's murder. In the process she meets an array of relatives, some drunk, some sober. This is a family whodunit, with ghosts and a brief romance thrown in. By the author of Star Flight.
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Lacey Elliot, una joven y cotizada ilustradora de libros, vive intrigada por su pasado. Huérfana de padre, no dispone de más fuente de información que su madre, pero ésta se niega a hablar. En una visita a Harpers Ferry, localidad de donde procede la familia, Lacey tiene ocasión de entrevistarse con su tía Vinnie, quien le confiesa que su padre murió asesinado. Esta revelación aviva aún más la curiosidad de Lacey, que con ayuda de un investigador local desentrañará la inquietante historia de su familia.
  Natt90 | Nov 16, 2022 |
This was a book that came in a grab bag with 2-3 other books when I went to a used book store in Florida. I had never heard of this author, but I'm glad I read it. ( )
  JennysBookBag.com | Sep 28, 2016 |
Window on the Square is the one book the women in my family have in common. It's a gothic mystery/romance and don't ask me what it is about this book, but we all have a copy and we're all territorial over them. My sister has already claimed my mother's hardcover copy when that time comes. Fortunately, I'd upgraded to a hardcover a few years ago so we won't actually end up in court over who gets mom's copy. ;)

But I had never read any other Phyllis A. Whitney before now. As much as I love WotS, I don't consider myself a fan of gothic reads; probably because I struggle with the romance genre? Anyway, when I was on vacation and cutting a swath through the Friends of the Library book sales one of the dear volunteers gave me this book for free ("If you're buying this here stack of hardcovers, I'm not going to charge you for that poor paperback.").

My first impressions: Man, they just don't write them the way they used to. With an economy of words, Ms. Whitney transports you exactly where she wants you. A strong sense of time, place, atmosphere from the first page - all without rambling expository narrative. Also - NO grammatical, spelling or editorial errors. None. Zip.

Story wise... meh. It was good, to be fair, but it didn't measure up to the unreasonably high expectations developed by my love of WotS. There's not much here that qualifies it as gothic, and very little romance. This was a straight forward mystery, spanning generations and centered on Harper's Ferry, West Virginia and people who have such a strong vise-like grip on their own history, the Civil War might as well of happened last week.

The writing was excellent, as I've said. The murder mystery was extremely well-plotted, although I sort of saw the ending coming. The characters were almost all hard to like or not like; the author gave the reader reasons to doubt both the goodness and the evilness of just about every character, except the MC and a handful of others. The romance was almost non-existent. It's a central theme, but the development of it's hardly touched upon at all with no build-up of romantic tension.

I enjoyed this book, and while I'm not going to run out and buy up her backlist, I'm going to keep an eye out for her books. Her writing is first class - I just have to find the stories she's written that hook me the way that first, treasured book did. ( )
  murderbydeath | Sep 20, 2014 |
Phyllis A. Whitney was one of my favorite authors when I was a girl. Her Columbella was one of the two books I checked out the day I proudly received my first adult library card. Eventually I stopped reading romantic suspense, so I hadn't read the last 24 of Ms. Whitney's novels. I picked up one of the later ones a few months ago and enjoyed it. I've been checking out about one a week since.

Even though several plot elements (heroine visits relatives she hasn't known, there's a child, etc.) are familiar in Ms. Whitney's books, I've been finding them very good anyway. Daughter of the Stars is no exception. I'd been wondering why so many of her later novels are set south of the Mason-Dixon line. The foreword offers a simple and logical explanation.

This mystery opens with a scene from the Civil War. It'll be quite a few chapters before we find out why some soldiers were shot by men from their own side. It's an ugly story. We're promised that what happened then won't be over for more than a century. Ms. Whitney keeps her promise.

A more recent incident in heroine Lacey Elliot's family involves an unsolved murder that split them apart, leading to flight, a suicide, and voluntary exile. Of course echoes of that murder are still affecting the present. Which relative, if any, is the killer?

If you like strong, elderly female characters -- sympathetic or otherwise -- Ms. Whitney had been delivering them for decades. There are more of them here.

The information about Harper's Ferry was very interesting. If you want to see pictures of some of the places described, there's a virtual tour at the National Park service website. You may hear various singers and versions of the lovely old song, 'Oh, Shenadoah', at youtube. (I found out my schoolgirl memory of the lyrics was even less accurate than I thought.) The Shepherd College where one of the characters teaches is Shepherd University now.

If you're in the mood for some romantic suspense, give this book and Whitney's others a try. My local library doesn't have the space to keep books that haven't been checked out for more than two years. They still have a lot of well-thumbed Whitneys. ( )
  JalenV | Aug 13, 2013 |
This, along with [book: The Golden Unicorn] by the same author, are what my grandmother used to call "Woman in Front of the House Books" from the standard cover art of a young woman in flowing garments posed in front of a large, spooky-looking house. The technical name is romantic suspense, and Phyllis A. Whitney was a master of the genre (in fact she was named a Grand Master by the MWA in 1988). When Whitney died recently at age 104, I realized I hadn't read anything of hers since junior high (she also wrote for young adults) so when I saw these two books ready for discard from a friend's bookshelf I took them to read on the plane.
[book: Daughter of the Stars]' title refers to the Shenandoah River, which meets the Potomac at Harpers Ferry, WV, the setting for this novel. Whitney always began writing by visiting the location and it shows; I could easily visualize the setting although I've never been there. The heroine of this book has been raised by her mother with no other apparent relatives. During the mother's recovery from surgery, a letter comes from Harpers Ferry and the heroine discovers that she does have relatives there, and that they may be in danger. She travels to West Virginia, meets the relatives, and also meets a handsome historian. There is a murder, but all ends more or less happily. One can usually predict what's going to happen in these books, and this was no exception, but the setting was so well done and the writing so well-crafted that it was an excellent way to pass the time during the 11 hours in airports, airplanes, and bus that it took to get from Savannah to Portland. ( )
  auntieknickers | Apr 3, 2013 |
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Through the gloom of the night, Sunday, October 16, 1859, a small band of men tramped silently behind a horse-drawn wagon down a winding Maryland road leading to Harper's Ferry, Virginia.
From the shoulder of each man hung loosely a Sharps rifle, hidden by long gray shawls that protected the ghostly figures against the chilling air of approaching winter. A slight drizzle of rain veiled the towering Blue Ridge Mountains with an eerie mist. Not a sound broke the stillness, save the tramping feet and the creaking wagon.
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