I cannot tell you about my latest read – “the sacrilege of just blurting out what had taken chapters to build, secrets hidden carefully by the author behind countless sleights of hand…” (Kate Morton). And the possibility that you won’t like it as much as I did would hurt too much.
But if you enjoyed Diane Setterfield’s The Thirteenth Tale
or if you are a fan of 
Carol Goodman’s The Lake of Dead Languages – or even Zafon’s The Shadow of the Wind…
if you love to reread Jane Eyre… you might try Kate Morton’s latest – The Distant Hours. 
In her third gothic mystery, this time within a castle during World War II as the setting, Morton uses an undelivered letter reappearing fifty years later to trigger the search into a mother’s past that leads to a delicious unraveling of characters and plot.
Starting slowly and with detailed description that annoyingly slows down the narrative, Morton lost me several times to her nostalgia before yanking me back to the mystery. Satisfying and comforting, the Distant Hours is an escape – easy to get lost in it for a long time, and leaving you a little startled when it ends.
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