A review by melaniesreads
The Chateau by Catherine Cooper

5.0

Catherine Cooper sure knows how to write horribly vile characters, this has them in abundance. From Aura the overly protective mother and her awful husband Nick, snooty but sleazy Thea with her extravagance that she loves to rub in peoples faces to clingy Frank and the strange Helen.

Put all these characters together add in a television crew, a chateau with strange goings on and a lavish Halloween party where a murder occurs and you already have a cracking read. But there is so much more to this than even that, Aura and Nick have fled to the Chateau for a new start. What is it they are running from? Helen being more Aura’s age than the young backpacker she seemed to be on her “happy to help” profile and just who or what is behind the things being done to scare her and the children?

This is a creepy read in more ways than one and the plot is cleverly constructed so that it starts with the party and then goes back and forth dropping clues along the way until it reaches in my opinion a very unexpected end with more than one victim and murderer. Not only was I blindsided by the who but the why too!

After really enjoying her previous book The Chalet I knew I would be in for a good read and I am happy to say it was even better than I expected and dare I say it my favourite of the two books.