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Get swept away to the enchanting South of France with this "exquisite and shimmering" (Lisa Jewell, New York Times bestselling author of Then She Was Gone) suspenseful historical novel, where perilous secrets lurk under the glitz and glam of seaside wealth. She didnt have an enemy in the world ... until she inherited a fortune. London 1948: Eve Forrester is stuck in a loveless marriage, isolated in her gray and gloomy house when out of the blue, she receives a letter. A wealthy stranger has left her a mysterious inheritance but in order to find out more, she must travel to the glittering French Riviera. There, Eve discovers she has been bequeathed an enchanting villa overlooking the Mediterranean Sea and suddenly, life could not be more glamorous. But while she rubs shoulders with the rich and famous, challengers to her unexplained fortune begin to emerge - challengers who would love to see Eve gone forever. Alone in paradise, Eve must unlock the story behind her surprise bequest - before her unexpected twist of fate turns deadly ... With Rachel Rhyss "thrilling, seductive, and utterly absorbing" (Paula Hawkins, #1 bestselling author of The Girl on the Train) prose, Fatal Inheritance is an intoxicating story of dysfunctional families and long-hidden secrets, set against the decadence of the Côte dAzur.



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Rachel Rhys

Hello and thank you for visiting the author page of Rachel Rhys - though you might also know me as psychological thriller writer Tammy Cohen.People always ask why I write under two names. As with most things, there's no simple answer.Initially I felt that having separate identities for the two very different genres - contemporary psychological suspense and historical mystery - would make it easier for readers to be sure exactly what they were getting.But what I hadn't really expected was that adopting a new name would also free me up to write in a completely new (for me) way. What I hadn't expected was how liberating it would be!My first Rachel Rhys, Dangerous Crossing, was inspired by a handprinted and photocopied journal I found while rummaging through my mum's cupboards. It had been written by a friend of my mum's and recounted a voyage she'd taken in 1938 on an ocean liner travelling from London to Sydney, courtesy of the government's reduced passage scheme aimed at encouraging young working class women to go into service in Australia. The journal detailed every aspect of everyday life on board the ship - from the menus to the Fancy Dress balls to the social and political tensions among the passengers in this volatile pre-war period. I knew instantly it would make a fabulous backdrop for a novel. What if something terrible happened on board that ship, amid all that unrest, all that enforced leisure, all those passengers who could not escape each other? When I started writing it as me, in my usual contemporary style, it felt all wrong somehow. Psychological thrillers are immediate and fast paced with a relentless escalation of suspense. This book seemed to call for a gentler approach, with more time taken to evoke the setting and draw out the characters, building up a sense of the period, with the tension woven lightly through using the most silken of threadsI decided I needed to start over again to develop a fresh style - and so Rachel was born.Whereas my psychological thrillers tend to be domestic based and therefore quite insular and claustrophobic, Rachel Rhys was free to explore the world, escaping from the monotony of everyday life to sip cocktails on hotel terraces in 1940s Antibes, or sun herself on white sand beaches in 1950s pre-revolution Cuba. Rather than travelling inwards to mine the darkness of their own psyches, her protagonists set out across the world on jet planes and ocean liners and the famous Train Bleu with its starched white tablecloths and wood panelled couchettes. And as they travel, they shed the constraints of their humdrum pasts as domestic servants and bored housewives and typists and start daring to imagine a future in which they make their own choices - where to live, what to do, who or even if to marry. Along the way there are mysteries to solve and flamboyant characters to encounter and mimosas to be drunk and silks to be worn. There are sunsets over mountains and palm trees whisp



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