A review by specialk136
The House at Riverton by Kate Morton

4.0

Kate Morton's novels always seem to use the same formula...a young female character seeking to learn a Big Dark Secret from an older female mother figure, all played out in an old grand house with lots of time jumping in between. But darn if that formula doesn't work again. I was honestly thrown by the twist in this story. I liked the implication that one little lie can have such tragic consequences, and that not everything worked out perfectly in the end. It does take a little while to truly get going (I was tempted to yell "What happened at the lake???" multiple times), and the story wouldn't have been hurt had it been about 100 pages less, but I enjoyed it much more than the Distant Hours, and almost as much as The Forgotten Garden.