MYSTERY

Return to Wyldcliffe Heights

Morrow. Jul. 2024. 320p. ISBN 9780063265288. pap. $18.99. M
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It was only afterwards that Agnes Corey realized she shouldn’t have written that letter to author Veronica St. Clair. Agnes is an editorial assistant at the small press that published St. Clair’s bestseller, The Secret of Wyldcliffe Heights. For almost 30 years, readers, including Agnes, have wanted a sequel, but St. Clair, a blind recluse, refused to write it. However, Agnes is shocked when she’s hired to transcribe St. Clair’s harrowing sequel to the original gothic tale. Arriving at Wyldcliffe Heights, she quickly gets wrapped up in the seemingly autobiographical novel about two young women imprisoned at an experimental mental hospital, and the fire that blinded St. Clair. As she transcribes, Agnes finds connections to her own family story and her mother, who was mentally ill. Agnes’s fears for her own mental stability come to a head on Halloween when the shocking secrets of Wyldcliffe Heights are revealed.
VERDICT Goodman, author of two Mary Higgins Clark Award–winning novels, including The Night Visitors, will please readers who like a gothic mystery with a creepy setting and unreliable narrators. Suggest for fans of Jane Eyre.
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