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Reviewed The Heiress: A Novel

I read this for a local book club. I like the occasional foray into whodunits and murders. This one really was full of murders everywhere. The interspersed confessional kept things going in between what to me was less interesting bits of the present with the repetitively angry adoptive son and his out-of-his-league wife.<br/><br/>Really, it turned out everyone was terrible here, even the golden boy prodigal adoptive son. The pile up of twists in the back quarter of the book went maybe 1 or 2 too many. On the other hand, I appreciated that the adoptive son wasn't so dumb. Although in thinking about it just now it is kind of a betrayal to his portrayal throughout the entire book up until that moment.<br/><br/>The final-final twist was really what I was expecting, just not how exactly we got there with her. That part made me roll my eyes at the implausibility. What can you do, it's fiction. And entertaining enough at that. Recommended if you want a light and fast read of soapy murder full of rich sociopaths.

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Published 2026-08-18 17:58 UTC · bridged from Atmosphere