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Loading... A Cruel Twist of Fateby H. F. Askwith
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Helena pretends she is a governess to go and work on an island for a family that owns the company her father worked for. The Cauldwell's are elusive - very rarely leaving the island and some of them have died in strange circumstances giving rise to talk of a curse amongst servants. When the head of the family is found dead, Helena starts to investigate and then there is another suspicious death....is something supernatural happening or is someone in the family up to no good? A bit like an Enola Holmes crossed with Agatha Christie. no reviews | add a review
When seventeen-year-old Helena is sent to be a governess at Archfall Manor - a beautiful but crumbling manor house, perched at the edge of a causeway in the North Sea - she feels confident she will know how to deal with the esteemed but eccentric Cauldwell family who own it. But it quickly becomes clear that the Cauldwells are hiding more than Helena could ever have dreamed of. A series of sinister events come to a head the night of a great storm, which washes away the only path back to the mainland - and reveals in the morning that there has been a murder... quickly followed by another. Suspicions and paranoia quickly run rampant. Someone has dark motivations in mind - and a killer's instinct to enact them. But the Cauldwell's aren't the only ones keeping secrets. Helena has a very important one of her own - and soon she begins to wonder whether forces beyond her control might be willing her to enact her own dark plan . . . Just how far will she go to get what she deserves? No library descriptions found. |
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Average gothic mystery with a touch of magic ( )