Deadly Gift

Written by Heather Graham

Narrated by Phil Gigante

An outsider in a world of extraordinary wealth, Caer Donahue must learn who can be trusted...and who should be feared

Caer is spending this Christmas among strangers. Brought to Newport, Rhode Island, from her native Ireland to nurse ailing millionaire Sean O'Riley, she's living a life few can imagine. But money can't hide the tension between O'Riley's trophy wife, his paranoid daughter, the eccentric aunt in the attic and the staff members who run the house.

When O'Riley's business partner goes missing, family friend Zach Flynn arrives. Determined to help him solve the case, Caer becomes enmeshed in a mystery that weaves together the sins of the past with one family's destiny...and a spirit that watches the mansion, possessing a deadly gift.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Brilliance Audio
• Release date: Jan 29, 2010
• ISBN: 9781423398691

Heather Graham

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Heather Graham has written more than a hundred novels. She's a winner of the RWA's Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Thriller Writers' Silver Bullet. She is an active member of International Thriller Writers and Mystery Writers of America. For more information, check out her websites: TheOriginalHeatherGraham.com, eHeatherGraham.com, and HeatherGraham.tv. You can also find Heather on Facebook.

Reviews for Deadly Gift

[Nneamaka M. Payne · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

It is all about the Irish history and the spirit of their Leprechaun known as the banshee. It is a form that guide the spirt of their Dear departed into the other life. Especially if they had been good souls. Zachary Flynn was called by their mothers famy member who was afraid for her father's life. Although she was his wife a young woman who was about the age of the man daughter.
But Sean O'Reilly was a business man and owner of a big shipping company and sail ⛵. He was away for Irish back home and as he got home to Ireland he became sick. He was taken to the hospital where he was under suspicion that he had been poison. But unfortunately no one knows what it was because he has passed it out already by being sick. He was treated and a nurse was sent home with him. One thing after the other the secret began to come out bit by bits.

In the story two good people died. But the killers were able to take out another person but shows the police that the dead of the first man was not a mistake but that the killers were smarter and careful. They have to pulled them out from their plan and allow them to make mistakes. They have to trigger them after the killers almost got the boy but intend knifed the Irsh lady who is the Bansche.
It set things in motion that brought the killers out into action.
The birds was a sign that opened the door for the Bansche to see the plan of the killers with drink again poison. Which has been consumed by all on the ⛵. The killers meet their faith in this last plan.

[carol420 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Slow start but good story. I’m part Irish and the history folk tales in this story helped bring the Emerald Isle alive for me. I particularly liked the values it shows of strong families and friends that are there to the end! I really enjoyed this book.

[jalenv_2 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Deadly Gift is the seventh of Ms. Graham's books I've read since January, and so far it's the only one I had no trouble at all putting down. I read four other books during the 15 days it took me to get through this one. The Lovecraft fan in me liked the fact that the bulk of the book is set in Rhode Island, H. P.'s home state. The prologue even made me wonder if the author was going to do a homage to The Shadow Over Innsmouth. I'm part Irish, so I certainly didn't mind the chapters set in Dublin.The Irish maiden aunt, Bridey O'Reilly, who was convinced there was a banshee in her nephew's big house, was a fine character. I enjoyed her dreams and her two biggest scenes (I was rather expecting the second one).Caer Cavannaugh is different from the other Graham romantic heroines I've read about. We find out early on that she's not what she seems. The author takes her time letting us know more about her, teasing us with possibilities.Zach Flynn, the youngest of the Flynn brothers, was nicer to Caer in the beginning than his brothers were to the women they went on to marry, but he's suspicious. Someone is trying to murder wealthy old Sean O'Reilly. Could it be his beautiful nurse?Sean was one of the Flynns' late father's best friends. He's been like an uncle to them since their parents died. His daughter, Kat, is like the younger sister they never had. (Zach's even gotten Kat started on her career as a professional singer. The woman is talented and beautiful.) Sean was a widower for years before he married his trophy second wife, Amanda, who is 31 to his 76. Kat hates Amanda. She's sure that her stepmother is the reason her father took ill and almost died while in Dublin. The worst we know about Amanda is that she's as shallow as she is beautiful and rude to employees. Is she an airhead or a cunning would-be murderess?Kat calls Zach in both because she's worried about her father and because Eddie Ray, her father's old friend and business partner, has disappeared. Could Eddie's disappearance have anything to do with a treasure he and Sean have been discussing and hunting for years? (The treasure has to do with an American Revolution spy made up for this book.)There are scenes that make me think of both Lovecraft's 'The Dunwich Horror' and a famous Alfred Hitchcock movie. The red herrings are plentiful. The older Flynn brothers get to help out. So does Jeremy's wife, Rowena. (It seems strange to me that neither Jeremy nor Rowena remark on the fact that Rowena's maiden name was identical to Caer's except for having one 'n' instead of two.) We even get to find out out the sex and name of Aidan and Kendall's baby during the epilogue. So why didn't I like this book as much as the first two in the triology?I guess I didn't care as much about Zach and Caer. Still, it's worth reading.Notes: See chapter 2 for Sean telling Caer about the treasure.See chapter 5 for the 'treat' Amanda arranged for Sean while he was in that Dublin hospital. (I loved the nurse's reaction.) This is also the chapter for a bit of information about Dublin itself.See chapter 11 for Zach telling Caer about his family and vice-versa. (I enjoyed the first version she told him.)No pets this time, although dog lovers might be pleased that Kat's favorite stuffed toy isa collie.