The Last Will at Thornmere
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“By dawn he is dead in his bed. Everyone agrees too quickly.”
At ten o'clock tomorrow morning, Gideon Thorne will sign a new will. The Thornes have spent four generations arranging how things look. So when the patriarch dies on the eve of rewriting everything, the family closes around the tidiest suspect: the much-younger second wife. Detective Sergeant Margot Fenn keeps asking the question the house was built to prevent.
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How it begins
Gideon Thorne had carried the indecision for the better part of a year, and it had been heavy the way wet wool is heavy — not dramatically, not all at once, but in the shoulders, in the sleep, in the extra second it took him to rise from a chair. He had assumed the weight was age. Seventy-nine years old, a heart that kept time like a cheap watch, a body that had begun sending him invoices for every decade he’d spent pretending it was infrastructure. But tonight, walking the west border in the last of the June light, he understood that most of what he’d been carrying had never been age at all. It had been the unsaid thing. And the unsaid thing was going to be said tomorrow at ten o’clock in the morning, in the presence of Prudence Aldrich and two witnesses and a fountain pen he had owned longer than he had owned either of his marriages, and then it would be done, and then — he almost laughed at the simplicity of it — then he could rest.
Is this your kind of book?
The Last Will at Thornmere is the country-house mystery — poisoned dinners and tidy stories that fall apart under one stubborn question. It is written for readers who want the patient kind of crime and suspense: plotted, unhurried, and more interested in what people conceal than in how loudly it ends.
This is Book Three of Margot Fenn Mysteries. Each book closes its own case, so it can be read on its own — but the series is built to be read in order, and starting at The Last Supper at Marrowbourne means the connections land the way they were written.
The Margot Fenn Mysteries in order
- The Last Supper at Marrowbournefree
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