ShortBookandScribes #BookReview – The Final Home on the Cliff by Anne Wyn Clark – Quick Guide and Scribes

The Final Home on the Cliff by Anne Wyn Clark is printed by Avon and obtainable in paperback, eBook and audiobook. My because of the writer for sending me a duplicate for assessment.

When a younger widow’s little woman vanishes, might a darkish household secret maintain the reply?

On the demise of her aunt Gwyn, Lowri returns as soon as extra to Gwyn’s house on the distant island of Anglesey, Wales, along with her younger daughter Ruby in tow. Lowri hadn’t seen her aunt in years, however this stunning island presents a contemporary begin.

But immediately, unusual issues start to occur. Ruby insists an previous lady is visiting her when nobody else is watching, and a tattered previous doll retains being left for Ruby to seek out.

Then Ruby goes lacking. Desperately looking for solutions nobody appears to have, Lowri appears to be like to her darkish household previous for clues. However the secrets and techniques she uncovers counsel that Ruby shouldn’t be the one one in peril, and time is working out – for each of them…

A terrifically darkish and twisty story that asks: are you able to ever actually belief these closest to you? Excellent for followers of Ruth Ware, Cass Inexperienced and C.J. Tudor.

Lowri remembers with fondness her childhood visits to her Aunt Gwyn on Anglesey. By no means phased by the truth that her aunt lived in and ran a funeral house, Lowri truly received on higher with Gwyn than along with her personal mother and father. Nevertheless, the visits ceased and Lowri hadn’t seen her aunt in a few years. When she hears that Gwyn has died she returns to Anglesey along with her younger daughter, Ruby. Instantly unusual issues begin to occur: shadowy figures within the backyard, an previous rag doll left round; after which Ruby goes lacking.

The setting is powerful in The Final Home on the Cliff. The funeral house itself is a sprawling place with a whiff of musty scent and darkish corners, and the island of Anglesey is sort of distant and windswept, a reasonably closed group. All of it lends itself to a touch of the sinister and Lowri feels fairly misplaced.

There are many twists and turns within the plot and fairly just a few that I didn’t see coming in any respect. I’m undecided I completely purchased into all of them, particularly in direction of the top, however I loved being alongside for the journey. There are many household secrets and techniques and mysteries involving Lowri’s household and likewise the background of Gwyn’s helpers on the funeral house, Awel and Elis, who have been each actually intriguing characters. I discovered The Final Home on the Cliff to be an ominous and atmospheric psychological thriller.

Anne Wyn Clark was born and raised within the Midlands, the place she continues to reside along with her husband, a sweet-natured cat, plus a chinchilla with angle. She has three now grown-up kids and 6 grandchildren. A lot of her formative existence was spent along with her head in a guide, and from an early age, she grew to relish the sheer escapism afforded by each studying and writing fiction. She has a love of antiquity and a penchant for visiting previous graveyards.