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Available: 1/21/25

My Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

If you are looking for a juicy thrilling family drama this is the book for you! The twists got me and I didn’t want to put this one down! A must add to your tbr!!!

The Agarwal family gathers on their private island in Scotland for a very anticipated family reunion. All of them have secrets they would die to keep hidden. Is this really a reunion to celebrate their supposed unity as a family, or will they be victims of their own greed?

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Dark & twisty, this book will want you to keep coming back for more! The story starts off with a murder & it's the readers job trying to ifgure out who did it. The characters are each hiding something and when stuck on a remote island, it gets dangerous fast. Definitely a must read for 2025!

Thank you NetGalley and Pamela Dorman Books for the ARC, all opinions are my own.

What a clever psychological trigger filled with family dynamics that lead you to making greedy questionable decisions. The book was filled with twists keeping me at the edge of my feet. These characters are truly unlikeable and I was here for it!

Thank you Netgalley and Penguin Group for gifted E-book

Wow. The Inheritance by Trisha Sakhlecha really took me by surprise. This part of the blurb “Most family reunions end in tears. This one will end in murder.” was more than enough to get my interest, but it didn’t truly prepare me for how much I would end up enjoying this book. This is a smart, well crafted, totally surprising suspense filled mystery/thriller. Take a wildly dysfunctional family (with many characters you’ll not like…nor are you meant to) put them an in isolated locale, jack up the stress and tension, and then watch them go at each other. I’d never read anything by Ms. Sakhelecha before but if the rest of her books are this good then she’s just earned herself a new diehard fan. There so many twists and tons of misdirection that kept me guessing until the very end. Thanks so much to PENGUIN GROUP Viking | Pamela Dorman Books for allowing me to the chance to read and review an. ARC of this wonderful book.

Overall this was a good book! I liked the multiple perspectives and the intricate family drama. It was certainly a slow burn, and the ending was a bit of a letdown.

This one was slow to get my interest, but once I started to know the characters better my focus was on finding out who would inherit the family business and what might occur to make that happen. Everyone seems suspect but that still didn't prepare me for the twist at the end.

This was a well-done family drama with a nice mystery thrown in. It is so moody and the vibes are fantastic. I loved the secluded island setting. Locked rooms or secluded places in mysteries and thrillers are some of my favorites and this was no different. I loved how the atmosphere played into the plot in this book. The dual point of view was fantastic. I really enjoyed getting to know the entire family through the different perspectives. As with any family drama, everyone in the play has secrets they’d rather not reveal, but as time goes on the secrets come out. I loved who we knew someone was passed away at the beginning but then we spent the entire book trying to figure out who it could be. There were so many red herrings that steered me down the wrong path, I ate it up. The ending was so twisted I really enjoyed it.

If you’re looking for a fantastically done secluded mystery, then you need to check this one out.

High stakes family drama in a moody setting? Yes please! From the description alone, I knew that I had to read The Inheritance -- and it definitely did not disappoint! I loved Trisha Saklecha's writing style and character development, she kept me hanging on for the entire ride. A must read for domestic thriller lovers everywhere!

I loved how this book took you along through the past of this family and then wove you between the family relationships. You could see how the secrets everyone had were eating away at people. I thought it was so well written. I also think it was so fun to read because I could see a real family hiding the truth like this and saving each other. I do kind of wish Zoe had lived or the baby had lived to carry on the story a bit.

The Inheritance is a twisty dysfunctional family saga and I absolutely loved it. I loved that it was different in the fact that we also had the mystery of who was actually dead along with who did it in the beginning. This book is shocking and twisty, I think it is a great read.

Thank you Pamela Dorman Books for the gifted digital ARC!

I won't get too into the weeds with my review here on NetGalley since I don't want to spoil anything, but I'll post more of an in-depth review about why I had a hard time with this one on Goodreads.

The story was sooo good there were just multiple storylines that I found deeply unsettling and downright triggering. It took this one from fantastic to just okay for me.

I definitely won't hesitate to read this author again in the future!

The Inheritance pub date is January 21, 2025.

Book Title: The Inheritance
Author: Trisha Sakhlecha
Publisher: Penguin Group Viking/Pamela Dorman Books
Genre: Mystery Thriller, Women’s Fiction
Pub Date: January 21, 2025
My Rating: 3.8 Stars
Pages: 352

The story is told Then and Now from the POV of Myra and Zoe.

Myra has a broken heart after a failed relationship and losing her baby.
Zoe lives with her in-laws in New Delhi and is having a hard time dealing with her mother-in-law Shalini's controlling behavior.

From the beginning, we know one of them is dead- Hmmm Which one?

The Agarwals gather on a remote island to talk through the sale of their company that has been run by Raj, the patriarch, and subsequent inheritances that will be bequeathed to their 3 grown children.

This domestic thriller with put you right in the middle of the Agarwal dysfunctional family
Raj and Shalini – Parents
Myra – The eldest child - Owen her husband
Aseem – Middle Child and only son. Zoe – his wife
Aisha – The youngest and a bit of a wild child. - Gabe her boyfriend
Twisted story had me guessing. The ending was a surprise and was satisfying.

Thank You to NetGalley and Penguin Group Viking/Pamela Dorman Books for this amazing early eGalley.
Publishing Release Date scheduled for January 21, 2025.

It took longer than I would have liked to get into this book, but once I got there, wow! What a twist!!! Very messed up and had me SEETHING! Books that can make you feel strong emotions are my favorite. It's worth a read. I intend to try her other books.

Thank you to Netgalley and Ms. Sakhlecha's team for allowing me an ARC copy of this book.

If you're into super twisty thrillers, this book is for you. This is the first book in awhile that I didn't figure it out. It keeps you guessing until the end. Although a couple of characters in the book really infuriated me, this book kept me on the edge of my seat and loving every minute of every plot and sub-plot written.

Lesson learned: never marry a mama's boy.

3.75 ⭐️

THE INHERITANCE by Trisha Sakhlecha is an atmospheric dysfunctional family novel. I thought the author laid an excellent groundwork in the remote Scottish setting. The rich Indian family is retreating to daughter Myra's private island, ostensibly to figure out how the father's is leaving his inheritance to his three children. Daughter Myra needs a huge influx in cash to ready her posh resort to open.

Son Aseem has most recently helped his father out with the company after his father had health problems, and due to that extra work thinks he should be promised more of the company. His influencer wife Zoe has tried her best to fit in with the family, but she feels like she will never fit in.

And youngest daughter Aisha is the flighty one, and she arrives with a new beau that no one trusts.

Told mostly from Myra’s and Zoe’s perspectives, I thought this brought a nice balance to the story, from both an “insider” family perspective and an “outsider” perspective.

The guts were good here, but I felt the story wasn't that propulsive after the establishing groundwork was developed. There was a long lag before anything happened. However, the last 10%-15% was exactly what I was looking for in terms of gasping. It did not disappoint! So even though the pacing had some troubles in my mind, I thought it was an intriguing story. And I really enjoyed learning more about the Indian culture.

Okay, stop what you are doing. When this book comes out in January, add to the top of your TBR. Wow!! This was so good and I did not see that ending coming!!!

This family is a mess and the secrets slowly unravel as you start diving in. This is a fantastic thriller read. Thank you NetGalley for this arc. I highly recommend!!!

Read this one in a day, it was that engaging, at least, at the start. Meeting the family and the dynamics of each character and their histories was kept me turning the pages but by the 50% mark I was anxiously waiting for the thrilling drama of this plot to begin unfolding. It did not. There was some misdirection that I thought had some potential but it got all wrapped up in a simple explanation that left me wanting. The last half of the book stretched as the family dynamics begin to unravel and I'm waiting for that big thrilling moment...only to be disappointed again. This book has a sudden shift in POV's that doesn't make much sense and then an epilogue is added to give readers the final reveal that wasn't surprising and left me disappointed. The writing was good, characterization good, plot had potential but I'm getting a bit tired of the overused plot device the ending of this story (and SO many others) are delivering to readers that just makes the story feel unresolved.

Wow. I did not see that one coming! It’s very rare that I can’t figure out “whodunnit” but definitely did not get it right this time! This is a very fast paced one that just keeps you on your toes!

Not a fan. It was a very slow burn and not as much of a thriller as I had hoped. Writing was good, just couldnt get into the story.

Murder Mysteries aren't really my thing - this one is an exception!

I love how the story unfolded and the twists that I never saw coming. I enjoyed the drama-forward story, but it got a little heavy handed at times. The author really tried to make each chapter end on a cliffhanger, which got old about halfway through. There was enough drama built in, so those endings felt a little silly, like they were trying too hard.

In the end, I thoroughly enjoyed it though.
I had all kinds of guesses, but did not figure this one out.