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Dangerous Inheritance
Jenny Hargreaves leaves her teaching post and travels to the remote coast of Wales, to work as a paid companion to Verity Morgan, entering a world of fear and suspicion. Why is it that no villager of Pentir will approach Crearty House after dusk? And who is it who waits on the cliffs below the pine forest?
- GenresGothic
256 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2000
About the author
Veronica Black
47 books70 followersPseudonym for Maureen Peters
Maureen Peters was born in Caernarvon, Wales, on March 3, 1935, and was married and divorced twice; she has two sons and two daughters. In addition to biographical fiction, historical romances, and mystery novels written under her own name, other noms de plume include Veronica Black, Catherine Darby, Levanah Lloyd, Belinda Grey, Elizabeth Law, Judith Rothman, and Sharon Whitby.
Said Maureen Peters about Sister Joan in an interview, "I chose a nun because they have got a lot of time on their hands. I have friends who are real nuns and they give me information on their lives, but mine’s a bit more unconventional. Every time she goes to a convent, she finds a dead body — Cornwall is littered with them."
Maureen Peters was born in Caernarvon, Wales, on March 3, 1935, and was married and divorced twice; she has two sons and two daughters. In addition to biographical fiction, historical romances, and mystery novels written under her own name, other noms de plume include Veronica Black, Catherine Darby, Levanah Lloyd, Belinda Grey, Elizabeth Law, Judith Rothman, and Sharon Whitby.
Said Maureen Peters about Sister Joan in an interview, "I chose a nun because they have got a lot of time on their hands. I have friends who are real nuns and they give me information on their lives, but mine’s a bit more unconventional. Every time she goes to a convent, she finds a dead body — Cornwall is littered with them."
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December 27, 2016
I hate to give a Veronica Black book 1 star, but it must be done. Dangerous Inheritance reads quickly, but it wasn't good. A promising start turned into a disaster not too far in.
It had the kind of ending that really gets under my skin. The baddie was in the middle of telling why they had done what they did, when they were interrupted by Jenny saying in narration that all that was ten years ago, and then she went on to summarize what happened in everyone's lives in the past ten years.
Many gothics end that way, and it reeks of laziness on the author's part. It feels like they get tired of writing and decide to wrap things up with a fast update.
It had the kind of ending that really gets under my skin. The baddie was in the middle of telling why they had done what they did, when they were interrupted by Jenny saying in narration that all that was ten years ago, and then she went on to summarize what happened in everyone's lives in the past ten years.
Many gothics end that way, and it reeks of laziness on the author's part. It feels like they get tired of writing and decide to wrap things up with a fast update.
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