*Book Tour: The Cursed Girls by Caro Ramsay

Today I'm on the Book Tour for The Cursed Girls by Caro Ramsay*. I received a copy of the book free of charge to enable me to take part in the tour.

Megan Melvick has spent years avoiding her inheritance, the dark and disquieting family estate Benbrae, now home only to her distant, aristocratic father, and her sister Melissa, dying quietly in an upstairs bedroom. Trapped behind her unreliable hearing aids and vulnerable to what others want her to see, Megan is unable to find the answers she wants: why is there a new woman on her father’s arm? And why has their absent mother not returned to say a final goodbye to Melissa?

Benbrae has always been a place of loss and misfortune for Megan, but as the Melvick family diminishes still further, she must ask one final question. If there is a curse on the house, will she be its next victim?

About the Author: Caro Ramsay is the Glaswegian author of the critically acclaimed Anderson & Costello series, the first of which, Absolution, was shortlisted for the CWA's New Blood Dagger for best debut of the year. The ninth book in the series, The Suffering of Strangers, was longlisted for the McIlvanney Prize 2018.

My thoughts?

Megan Melvick has returned home to her grand home - the Scottish country estate she left three years ago. Her sister, Melissa is dying and their father has demanded her presence. 

Coming back brings lots of memories to the fore. It seems the family is cursed. With Melissa dying, Megan being deaf, her mother missing and her papa committing suicide on her 4th birthday many years before.

Her sister says something to her just before she dies and Megan wonders if what she said was for her benefit or someone else's. She casts her mind back to Melissa's wedding five years before when tragedy struck and she lost someone close to her. What is it Jago and her father are hiding from her? Why is her mother's friend, Heather eager to take her friend's place in her father's affections and why is Carla's mother always hanging around. 

The story is told from the alternative views of Megan and Carla and I found the story twisty, atmospheric and un-put-downable. I highly recommend it.