Fatal Inheritance by Rachel Rhys
I loved this book! How’s that for a spoiler? It’s a fun
mystery with no exploding cars or gory body scenes and set in the
years immediately following World War II and on the French Riviera,
to boot.
The setting itself
is practically a character in the story. But back to the story.
Eve Forrester is
married to a boor and she is miserable. Don’t you just hate it
when they think we’re stupid? Clifford thinks Eve is stupid. Her
mother is a miserable woman and Eve is stuck, walking on eggshells
and trying to please two miserable people. Then she gets what we all
wish on stars for, a letter telling her a complete stranger left her
an inheritance in the south of France. She leaves, promising to come
back in a couple of days.
Eve’s
inheritance turns out to be a quarter share of a villa looking out on
the Mediterranean and she is enchanted, but then, who wouldn’t be?
The other three inheritors aren’t thrilled with her, thinking she
is a long lost love child there to sabotage their plans to sell the
villa to the first person with a checkbook so they can have their
money. But Eve is determined to find out who this Guy Lester, her
benefactor is, and why she never heard of him and she starts digging
for answers.
This is a
mystery so we’re trying to figure out who the bad guy is and it’s
not glaringly obvious. It could be several people trying to hurt
her, stop her, trip her up. In the meantime she is rubbing elbows
with the rich and famous and discovering she can get along just fine
without that boor of a husband of hers.
This book is a
delight. But I already told you that.
sounds like an interesting book..
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