Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, 320 pages.
Noemí Taboada isn't known for being serious. She is a Mexican heiress and a glamorous debutante, flitting between men and other amusements. But when her father receives an unsettling letter from her cousin, Noem
í is sent as her father's emissary to make sure she is alright. What she finds is a crumbling mansion way out in the mountains and an equally decaying family obsessed with their own legacy. The house is silent and moldering, and the hostility she feels immediately soon begins to give way to something more ominous. She went to see if her cousin needed an asylum, but she soon starts to wonder if she may as well.
This book was a little slow hitting it's stride, but once it did it was extremely atmospheric and spooky. I enjoyed seeing the pieces come together as the mystery slowly unspooled into something darker and darker. I think this was a really solid choice to kick off my fall reading, and I'll probably read more by the author.
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