Thunder Heights
Published in 1960, Thunder Heights is a gothic fiction and romantic suspense novel by Phyllis A. Whitney. Key subjects include orphans and inheritance and succession.
Open Library readers give it an average of 4.0 out of 5 from 3 ratings, and 25 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 18 editions.
It runs to roughly 311 pages — 5–6 hours of reading at an average pace.
About Thunder Heights
Camilla King knows little of her family history, having never met her estranged relatives. Her late father wanted it that way. But when she receives a startling invitation from her immeasurably wealthy and ailing grandfather, Orrin Judd, to return to Thunder Heights, the crumbling mansion on the Hudson where her mother died under mysterious circumstances, Camilla complies, partly out of curiosity for the family she never had, and partly because of whispers of an inheritance. What she finds there is a demanding and unwelcoming tyrant, two wraithlike aunts haunted by an unnamable grief, a cunning idler living off the Judd fortune, and her grandfather’s rigid and suspicious aide. When a series of accidents befall Camilla, she has reason to fear her homecoming may be a carefully designed trap—the same one her own mother fell prey to many years ago.
Quick answers
Who wrote Thunder Heights?
Thunder Heights was written by Phyllis A. Whitney and first published in 1960.
What genre is Thunder Heights?
It is usually shelved as Gothic Fiction and Romantic Suspense.
How long is Thunder Heights?
The median edition has 311 pages, about 5–6 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.
What books are similar to Thunder Heights?
Readers who like it often enjoy Lord of the Far Island, The Moon-Spinners and Thornyhold.
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