My Cousin Rachel

A "thumping good read" from a 20th-century master, My Cousin Rachel tells the story of Philip Ashley, a Victorian young man whose placid life in the English countryside is turned inside-out by an older woman -- the beautiful, sophisticated, mysterious widow of his uncle. Did she have a hand in her husband's death? And is she now designedly luring Philip to his doom? Originially published in 1951, My Cousin Rachel is "dramatic, surprising, and masterly...a highly skilled piece of storytelling." (Queen)