A review by sjgochenour
The Dancing Floor by Barbara Michaels

4.0

ATMOSPHERIC AS HELL. I dreamed about this book while reading it, and my whole body got kind of numb and tingly at the end. Most of my high rating is for that intense evocation of creepiness on the basis of an overgrown bramble with a couple statues thrown in -- shouldn't be that scary, and YET.

That being said, the plot is a bit mush, and the romantic subplot is not terribly satisfying. You know immediately which guy is the guy for Heather because Barbara Michaels/Elizabeth Peters/Barbara Mertz never picks a charmer when a grump is available, but god, he's an asshole.