Subtle Suspense

My Rating: 5/5

Review: Mary Stewart has such a magical way of creating suspense without much violence and very little evidence of a threat aside from the initial greeting by Conner Winslow to the woman he thought was his long lost cousin. But Mary Grey states quite convincingly that she is not Annabel Winslow, and Conner soon hatches a scheme to get the inheritance he's always felt he deserves. There are secrets buried at the Winslow farm, however, secrets that threaten Conner's plan. Will he turn to murder after all, or will things get turned on him in the end. The build up at the end was quite intense, and I enjoyed every minute of it.

Book Description: As she savored the ordered, spare beauty of England’s northern fells, the silence was shattered by the shout of a single name: “Annabel!” And there stood one of the angriest, most threatening young men Mary had ever seen. His name was Connor Winslow, and Mary quickly discovered that he thought she was his cousin—a girl supposedly dead these past eight years. Alive, she would be heiress to an inheritance Connor was determined to have for himself.