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The House on Tradd Street | 
| Author: Karen White
Publisher: NAL Trade
Category: Book
List Price: $14.00
Buy Used: $7.20
You Save: $6.80 (49%)
Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 12218
Media: Paperback
Pages: 352
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.9
ISBN: 0451225090
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780451225092
ASIN: 0451225090
Publication Date: November 4, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: General Light Wear
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
A brilliant, chilling series debut, featuring a Charleston real estate agent who loves old housesand the secret histories inside them.
Practical Melanie Middleton hates to admit she can see ghosts. But shes going to have to accept it. An old man she recently met has died, leaving her his historic Tradd Street home, complete with housekeeper, dogand a family of ghosts anxious to tell her their secrets.
Enter Jack Trenholm, a gorgeous writer obsessed with unsolved mysteries. He has reason to believe that diamonds from the Confederate Treasury are hidden in the house. So he turns the charm on with Melanie, only to discover hes the smitten one...
It turns out Jacks search has caught the attention of a malevolent ghost. Now, Jack and Melanie must unravel a mystery of passion, heartbreakand even murder.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 13 more reviews...
 BEST BOOK BY KAREN WHITE SO FAR. January 9, 2009
Anne OConnor (Jupiter, FL USA)
I RECOMMEND THIS BOOK VERY HIGHLY. FASCINATING PLOT AND VERY WELL-WRITTEN.
COULD NOT PUT IT DOWN.
Absolutely LOVED this book! January 4, 2009
J. Moore (Knoxville, Tennessee United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Murder and romance in an old haunted mansion south of Broad in Charleston, SC, was the perfect book for my introduction to author Karen White. Melanie Middleton is a highly successful realtor with all her ducks in a row until she inherits the house on Tradd Street and meets the perfect man in Jack Trenholm---plus a few unsettled spirits. The plot is loaded with mystery, suspense, romance and treasure. Miss Middleton is charming and engaging as an intelligent, yet vulnerable heroine. Her handling of her estrangements with her parents and her deep sense of responsibility to her benefactor make her believable and delightful. I can't wait for # 2 in this series scheduled for November 2009!
A Surprisingly Complex, Intriguing, and Suspenseful Read January 2, 2009
weathered1 (Nashville, TN, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is rife with so many issues and themes that it could have easily become a tangled, unreadable mess. The fact that Karen White was able to deftly handle each and every plot is a testament to her talent as a writer. She was able to tackle everything from ghosts (both of the benevolent and evil varieties) to treasure, betrayals, love, abandonment, and even how one goes about restoring an old house to its former splendor.
Through all of that, White managed to create characters that are deeply flawed, yet also realistic, and the reader winds up truly caring about them as they navigate through traumas and obstacles that not only creep up on them in present day, but also those that befell them in the past.
Even as they deal with pain and loss, their likability shines through, which leads to quite a bit of humor throughout the book. Case in point - the story's protagonist is, on the surface, all about strict organization and efficiency, and the reader quickly finds out that this is part of the defense mechanism that she's relied upon since her incredibly troubled childhood. A less talented writer would have made it pretty difficult to care about Melanie, but White imbues her with so much snark, humor, and quirks - i.e. her love of spreadsheets is second only to her utter devotion to sugar in all of its various forms - that the reader quickly becomes invested in her and her relationships as she deals with (amongst other things) a multitude of ghosts and her desire to solve the mystery of a family's tumultuous, tragic past.
Then, too, Jack is an excellent foil for Melanie. Rather than merely being an exceptionally attractive playboy writer, his charm and humor endear him to readers as he interacts with Melanie, and tries to solve a mystery or two of his own, while he's still reeling from an event that caused him a great deal of emotional pain.
This book was very good on any number of levels - it's both funny and sad at times; the multiple mysteries are all interesting and suspenseful; and the ghosts run the gamut from being heartwarming to exceedingly creepy and dangerous. It is truly a great book, and the only downside to it is that, according to the pages at the book's end, we have to wait quite awhile until the next installment of Melanie and Jack's adventures is released.
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