Review: All of Us Murderers

All of Us Murderers by K.J. Charles
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Zeb Wyckham is persuaded by his cousin Wynn to visit him at his country estate Lackaday House on Dartmoor, hoping that this cousin will be less horrible than the rest of his relatives. But on arrival the stately home looks like a gothic nightmare, the staff are surly, Zeb's ex Gideon (who loathes him) is Cousin Wynn's assistant, and the icing on the cake is that Zeb's obnoxious older brother Bram and his supercilious wife Elise, and his tiresome cousin Hawley are also guests.

Then cousin Wynn drops a bombshell, he has discovered a hitherto unknown cousin, Jessamine, an unfortunate girl who was the culmination of several girls having illegitimate babies, and he is determined to do right by her, by giving his home and fortune to the Wyckham cousin she marries [cue duh, duh, duh music].

Trapped with a group of people he detests, first by a promise to his cousin, and then by the treacherous Dartmoor mists, Zeb is increasingly bewildered by the talk of a curse on the Wyckham men and claims of mysterious monks roaming the corridors. None of his relatives will believe him when he says he has no intention of marrying Jessamine and greed is making everyone paranoid.

When people start disappearing and dying can Zeb escape alive?

This was wonderful, totally OTT and evocative of all those gothic romances with crypts and dungeons and hooded faceless spooks gliding around. Loved every page of it.

I received an ARC from the publisher via NetGalley.

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