The Secrets of Hartwood Hall is the debut novel of Katie Lumsden. This is a entertaining and intriguing manor house mystery novel.
Beautifully descriptive the author takes the reader back to 1852 and the English countryside. On a dark and stormy night Margaret Lennox, newly widowed, arrives at her new place of employment. The large rundown and isolated country house is where Margaret will be the governess to ten year old Louis.
As Margaret tries to figure out the unusual relationship between Louis and his mother, she is hearing strange rumors in town about the house and the people who live there. It is a lonely place until she befriends Paul the gardener.
But all is not as it seems, secrets are being kept by everyone in the house, from the handsome gardener, Paul to the kitchen staff. Of course Margaret is also seeing stranger figures in the dark and hearing noises coming from the closed off East Wing of the house.
Should she investigate or keep quiet because Margaret has secrets of her own she does not want to share.
An entertaining novel in the gothic tradition. A manor centered mystery with twists and turns around every corridor and down every hallway. Secrets kept behind closed doors.
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