The Will, the moreish new thriller by Rebecca Reid, has been included in the Daily Mail‘s round-up of ‘the best of the year’s novels’.

The review reads: “This twisty, stylish tale of contemporary posh types has the Mordaunts assembling at the family stately home. Granny Cecily has just died and tradition dictates that Roxborough is left not to the next in line, but to whoever the previous owner thinks best. But who is best, given that they all have guilty secrets?”

The Mordaunts aren’t like most families . . .

For one, their family home is Roxborough Hall – a magnificent, centuries-old mansion in the Norfolk countryside. For another, the house isn’t passed down from parent to child – but rather to the family member deemed most worthy.

Cecily Mordaunt is dead. On the evening of her funeral, her family will gather for dinner and each will be given a letter, revealing who is the next custodian of Roxborough Hall.

The house is a burden, a millstone, a full-time job . . . but they all want it. And some are willing do anything to get it.

One family. Eight letters. Who will get what they deserve?

The Will is available now. Grab your copy here or, better, via your local bookshop or Bookshop.org.

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