Description Share Post A Grave Inheritance The Society of Free Spirits Felicity Epps (Hachette) Since the death of her elder sister, Edith, Dolores has been unsettled. It’s not only the fact she is now heiress to the family fortune, but also the myriad of questions left unanswered. Thereafter she seeks help at her deathbed from the doctor next door, and then from the local apothecary. Finally, she is befriended by a medium, Violet, who is certain that she can connect with Edith. However the servants are uneasy. Even the gardener, whom Dolores seeks out for answers, offers that he will not return to her home. What are the strange noises in the night? Then again, who has defaced Edith’s portrait alongside Dolores’s mourning gowns? Ada, the doctor’s daughter, is quick to engage Violet further, while it seems that Dolores’ hysteria is growing to a point that there are concerns for her mental wellbeing! Felicity Epps‘ A Grave Inheritance summons an age such as evoked through Lucy Strange and Pam Smy’s Lockett & Wilde’s Dreadfully Haunting Mysteries: The Ghosts of the Manor. We’ve the same smell of dust and decay, the same trickery and spine tingles. Then again, subtly, this writer guides us to realising Dolores’s real predicament, alongside those of Ada, Violet, and her lady’s maid, Louisa. What are the real opportunities for them? The expectations? Bookwagon welcomes aboard A Grave Inheritance.
