Fairly predictable mystery, but it was still a good read that I enjoyed. I only thought it was predictable because I solved the mystery before the characters did.

One of my favorite authors returns with a new novel set on the Hudson Valley. A young publicist has taken a job with a recluse author who has written only one novel ( a best seller that millions of readers had read and have been waiting for the sequel). Tasked with the assigment of helping write the sequel, the main character(Agnes) meets with the author in her strange and eerie home. What follows is an exciting mystery that will keep you on the edge of your seat! Kudos to the author for another great read.

I am on the fence with Return to Wyldcliffe Heights. I enjoy Goodman’s style of writing and her complex characters, but the pacing seemed too slow, and I felt it was another gothic novel with the same key elements as all the others. Spooky house, check, mysterious atmosphere, check I just wanted to get to the end.

I am really starting to become quite the fan of Carol Goodman. Her characters are always on point, and her stories always have twists that I do not see coming.

Carol Goodman is always a slow-but-good burn and "Return to Wyldcliffe Heights" may be her best work yet.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for this eARC.

Agnes Corey, a junior editor at a small independent publisher, was scheduled to be fired, however she received a reprieve when she is hired to has been hired by author Veronica St. Clair to transcribe the sequel to her 1993, best seller The Secret of Wyldcliffe Heights.

Agnes, discovers the past dovetails with her own history, and that there is a reason St Clair selected her to help her write the truth that inspired the original best selling book.

A fascinating gothic labyrinth mystery, Carol Goodman created an imaginative winner with this novel.