Review: All Things Cease to Appear

All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

A man arrives home to discover his wife murdered and his 3 year old daughter alone with the body. He shows almost no emotion (which makes him an immediate suspect) and flees the town as soon as he can. George Clare then tries to rebuild his life without Catherine, his wife.

The farm house where this happens has already a gruesome story: the farmer and his wife died there too (suicide? accident?) and the house has the "presence" of the woman who lived there before. Their 3 children can't get away from the house, either, and they find their way back as handymen and child minders.

The story goes back and forth between George and Catherine, whose marriage is one big mistake, and the Hale family, the original owners of the farm house.

Although the book is slow paced, it's exactly how the book should be narrated. Also, you always suspect (or even know who the killer is), but I didn't find it was detrimental to the story in any way. On the contrary, it's just another good twist to the plot.

I received an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

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