Who doesn’t love a great inheritance story? Whether characters are bequeathed money, companies, property, etc., we enjoy finding out who got what. It’s like a mystery-within-a-mystery when you have to wait along with the characters to find out who got everything, like in Crooked House by Agatha Christie. Then there’s The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin, in which readers find out which stranger will win it all in a competition.
The other side of those stories is that if there are fewer people to inherit, there’s more for whoever is left. Annnnd, that’s usually when the murders start. Sometimes, it turns out the murder was all for nothing, because the will ends up containing a big surprise!
In conclusion, please feel free to leave me all you’ve got, and also everything about inheritance mysteries is a rollicking, murderous good time. Here are five great novels about getting the goods that stand out.
All of Us Murderers by KJ CharlesWhen Zeb Wyckham arrives at Lackaday House on a dark and stormy night, he discovers that his rich cousin summoned him to announce his will. The deal is that whoever marries his cousin’s ward shall inherit everything. Zeb isn’t interested in marriage, but his attempts to leave Lackaday House, he finds he is trapped there with his estranged family and his ex-lover, and someone is looking to thin out the competition. |
 The Sicilian Inheritance by Jo PiazzaIn this exciting mystery, a woman is left the deed to family land in Sicily, but instead inherits family secrets and danger. Sara travels to Italy after her beloved great-aunt dies, where she learns that her great-grandmother Serafina may not have died from an illness like they were once told, but had actually been murdered. And when Sara starts poking around, looking for answers, she puts herself in the path of the same danger her descendants faced. |
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