The Chateau

A Novel

By: Jaclyn Goldis

Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan, Amanda Carlin, Graham Halstead, Elisabeth Lagelée, Emily Lawrence, Jeremy Carlisle Parker, Jackie Sanders

A dream girls trip to a luxurious French chateau devolves into a deadly nightmare of secrets and lies in this “twisty, well-paced murder mystery that never fully lets go” (Sarah Penner, New York Times bestselling author).

Welcome to picturesque Provence, where the Lady of the Chateau, Séraphine Demargelasse, has opened its elegant doors to her granddaughter Darcy and her three friends. Twenty years earlier, the four girlfriends studied abroad together in France and visited the old woman on the weekends, creating the group’s deep bond. But why this sudden invitation?

Amid winery tours, market visits, and fancy dinners overlooking olive groves and lavender fields, it becomes clear that each woman has a hidden reason for returning to the estate after all these years. Then, following a wild evening’s celebration, Séraphine is found brutally murdered.

In the midst of this shocking crime, a sinister Instagram account pops up, exposing snapshots from the friends’ intimate moments at the chateau, while threatening to reveal more.

As they race to uncover who murdered Séraphine—and is now stalking them—the friends begin to suspect each other. Because the chateau houses many secrets…several worth killing for in this “mesmerizing story of betrayal and revenge” (Megan Collins, author of The Family Plot).

Critic reviews

"In this audiobook presented by an ensemble of narrators, a girls’ trip to a chateau in Provence quickly goes awry after Séraphine, grandmother of one of the girls and owner of the chateau, is found murdered in her bed. The tightly woven plot’s backstories are told from the viewpoints of the protagonists, with different narrators voicing each one. The seven narrators are well matched to each other and the tone of the story, with each confidently using French accents where necessary...the narration of the story from Séraphine’s point of view by Jackie Sanders stands out. Her pitch and tone conjure up the image of an indomitable grande dame."

very welll written

read it!! It keeps your interest and you won't figure it out til the end

Couldn’t Put It Down

Kept my attention from the beginning until the very end. The the different narrators made the story even more enjoyable.

Meh

I wanted to love this book, but I couldn’t get past the annoying “friends.” Not happy I wasted a credit.

whodunit?!!

This was kinda giving me The Paris apartment, big little lies, lifetime crime/drama movie vibes.

It was alot of pov passages (mostly about things taking place in the past and what the character was thinking about in that moment)

Also with the 7 main characters and side characters in the story I had to go back and forth sometimes to make sure I kept them all in track but overall this wasn't bad, I really hate there was a cliffhanger!

I kinda hope there is sequel to see what will happen even if it's a short story...I would read it.

Great Character

Great character development and pacing. The story started off interesting enough and by the end it was a story wrapped in a story, wrapped in a twist.