Another solid mystery/thriller from Rachel Hawkins! I downed this book in one day, fueled by its fast-paced cocktail of kidnap, murder, greed, and deceit. Told in multiple POVs with the past revealed in a series of letters, this story will pull you in with its satisfying, suspenseful twists.

Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for this complimentary ARC. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.

I think I’m basically a Rachel Hawkins thriller stan now, because this was another solid story that I enjoyed a lot. The main characters had complexities, and they all kind of sucked but in a fun way. The pacing and reveals were timed well, and each one had me like, oh dang! My only complaint is that Cam gets a dual POV with Jules (or a third, if we include Ruby’s letters) but we don’t get as much from him as we do with Jules. His attitude and reasonings were believable, but we just scratch the surface with his emotional baggage, while Jules lays it all out there. I also don’t super understand why Jules breaks the fourth wall in her POV so much, but it was actually quite funny.

This book got me out of a lull in reading. Very twisty up until the end. I finished the last half in a day. Characters were complex- not blk and white which kept me guessing up until the end.

The Heiress is such a great thriller, without really being a thriller. I loved the twisted family backgrounds and all the unreliable characters. Perfect summer thriller!

I loved the twists and shocking reveals ALL throughout this story! It was a satisfying culmination of events and I would love to reread it as if it were new again!

Thanks to NetGalley for an early read.

Camden and Jules travel to Camden's home in the Appalachian Mountains. His family has owned the home for years...and most of the town. But Camden was adopted by Ruby who at the age of three was abducted and not returned until later, or was she? The rest of the family see Camden as an interloper and are furious that Ruby left the entire estate to him. Camden wants absolutely nothing to do with the family. Secrets are revealed, lives are threatened.... Just your basic family reunion...

A big thank you to St. Martin's Press and NetGalley for providing me with an early copy to read and review.

Wow. This book hooked me from the beginning. With vibes of the Lindbergh kidnapping and Rebecca, I was captivated and had a hard time putting the book down at times.

In typical Rachel Hawkins fashion, it was a twisty mystery with several unexpected turns.

4.25 ⭐️ | Somebody needs to send me some Goo-Gone ASAP because I am still glued to this book after finishing it last night. With this new release, Rachel Hawkins has just solidified her spot on my auto-buy list—she just never misses the mark! "The Heiress" features intelligent plot pacing, savvy characters, and an atmosphere to die for (literally 😉)—what more could a girl want?

This story will transport you to the Blue Ridge mountains of Tavistock, North Carolina, where you'll settle into the harrowing halls of Ashby House, the home of the infamous McTavish family and notorious ruling ground of Tavistock's finest—the notorious Ruby McTavish. When Ruby dies, her multimillion-dollar inheritance is passed along solely to her adopted son, Camden, and by proxy, his wife Jules. But when burning questions of family legacy, lineage, and lies threaten to dissolve all that is owed to Cam, the pair begin to unravel the truth of the past that continues to haunt the McTavish name.

Told in alternating perspectives between Camden, Jules, and Ruby herself, Hawkins weaves together alternating timelines and dangerous motives to create a thrilling story from cover to cover.

I thoroughly enjoyed this read and only bumped it down from a five-star read because I'd predicted a chunk of a major reveal. Would highly recommend picking this one up!!

✨ Big thanks to NetGalley and publishers for sending me a free eARC in exchange for an honest review! ✨

Thanks to Netgalley & the publishers for the Arc! I LOVE Rachel Hawkins and I LOVED this book. I walked around with this book in my hand because I just couldn't put it down. I had to find out all about Ruby & her life, and how it led up to the current events that Camden & Jules are taking part in. Read it! You've got the woods, love stories, murder, betrayal, family drama, relationship drama, Rachel's books just keep getting better and better.

I've read every single one of Rachel Hawkins books and loved them all! I'm telling you, this author can do no wrong. She can write any kind of thriller set anywhere and I'll eat it up! The Heiress is another amazing book by her!

My favorite read of the year. I keep thinking about this book! The characters are so entangled - and it had me captivated. I will definitely be re-reading before publication!

The Heiress is definitely a fun, captivating read with an unlikeable cast that highlights what happens when someone in a family dies, particularly in regards to their fortune. I'm pretty sure I finished this book in a day. I just HAD to know what happened next and couldn't put it down, especially since the mystery concerning Ruby unraveled and became more outrageous with each of her chapters. However, even though I gave it 4 stars, I wouldn't necessarily call this a gothic mystery book. Ruby's chapters definitely had some gothic elements and those were my absolute favorites, but the chapters that took place in the present just reminded me of Knives Out.

Don't get me wrong, I LOVE Knives Out and it's why I gave the book 4 stars. But from reading the summary I was expecting something a bit different? I still loved the book tho, and I definitely loved Ruby in all her messy, imperfect chaos. This is something I'd truly read again.

I really enjoyed myself while reading this suspenseful family mystery. Rachel Hawkins is the queen of dark secrets between the characters in her books, everyone always has a secret and the entire time reading you are dying to figure out just what those secrets are. This book is not an exception. This is about the strange life of the notorious heiress, Ruby McTavish, the historic Ashby House, and the twisted McTavish family. When Ruby Passed away, she left her families entire fortune to her adopted son Camden, only Camden doesn’t want to have anything to do with the money, or the house, after the way he was treated when he was younger. In the wake of this uncle’s death, an email arrives pleading for his return to Ashby house. Camden’s wife, Jules, convinces him to return for a short trip to clear things up with his family and the estate. Jules plays the unknowing wife, but she knows all about Ashby house and she has no plans to leave once they make it there. Everyone is lying, nothing is as it seems, and extreme wealth has some extreme problems…

While this one wasn't my favorite story (it felt a little flat to me), I'll always be first in line for this author's books! She's fantastic.

Great book. Not my favorite of hers but I enjoyed it. It was slow at first and some of the twists were predictable but the last few chapters of the book redeemed itself. Thanks for the ARC NetGalley! 4/5 stars

While I typically love and obsess over everything Rachel Hawkins writes, The Heiress fell a little flat for me. I did enjoy reading it, but I think there were opportunities to really make this book pop (like playing up Jules' role a bit more) or giving a little more depth to Libby. Either way, it was enjoyable.

This was a wonderful book. A great Thor ill er that kept me guessing the whole time. I would recommend this to all thriller lovers!

The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins was quite a ride. I felt like I couldn't read the pages fast enough. It was full of mysteries and you felt like you knew there was big twist coming throughout the whole book. Hawkins' "The Wife Upstairs" is a favorite of mine but this one is a few favorite. It's a twisty family novel that I didn't see coming.

TW/CW: Sex, murder, domestic abuse, death, suicide

REVIEW: I received a free copy of this book from NetGalley and Macmillan publishers and am voluntarily leaving an honest review.

The Heiress is the story of a married couple summoned to the husband’s childhood estate upon the death of the family matriarch. Written through letters and first-person accounts, it is soon obvious that nothing – and nobody – is what they seem to be.

I really enjoyed this book. I found it to be engaging and interesting, and found myself surprised by the twists and turns that make up this book.

This is also a fairly short book, so it’s a quick read both in the pacing and in the pages.

The one problem I had with this book is that (by the end, at least), everyone in this book is very unlikable. There wasn’t a single character I liked or could really relate with, although it bothered me less in this book than it has in others (it was almost like it was SUPPOSED to be that way).

I recommend this book to anyone who likes a good, twisty mystery and the other books of Rachel Hawkins.

The McTavish family is dark and twisty as the house they live in. So many dark secrets that one might not get the answers to all one's haunting questions...

Suspenseful and twisting I loved that all the characters we interesting. Everyone had their iwn motives behind their questionable behaviour... And I loved finding out how all the husbands of The Hieress McTavish met their ends.