The Cousins by Caron Allan
Independently published 12th December 2025
ISBN 9798277593073
Secrets. Everybody has them.
When Caitlin sits by her grandfather’s side as he lays dying, she thinks she’s about to lose her entire family. Before he passes, he makes an odd comment, leaving her with something to puzzle over, along with a set of old black and white photographs.
Then at his funeral, she meets her long-lost cousins, and soon there are even more questions to answer and puzzles to solve. Where have they been all these years? Why haven’t they been in touch if they care so much about ‘family’?
The past holds secrets. Everybody seems to have something they are keeping to themselves. And that includes Caitlin.
MY REVIEW
I absolutely love Caron Allan mystery novels, she is extremely gifted author who writes page-turning stories. I highly recommend all of Caron Allan’s mystery novels.
Caitlin’s grandfather had a fall, that sadly had taken his life. At Caitlin’s grandfathers funeral, she meets her long-lost cousins.
With Caitlin’s inheritance comes her late grandfather’s London home and a cottage in East Sussex, that has been empty for sometime. The cottage seems to be haunted, but is there a reason strange things that happened in there.
And will Caitlin decide to keep the cottage or sell it?
Then after her cousins tell Caitlin rats are down in the cottage cellar, can her so call cousins be trusted?
About author Caron Allan
Caron lives in Derbyshire, England, where Jane Austen’s Mr Darcy came from. She hasn’t met him yet, but nevertheless clings to the dream. She writes mysteries and crime but sometimes adds in a little dash of romance or fantasy.
Like many writers, Caron always wanted to write stories. She can remember announcing this to her mother when she was eight years old. Caron says, ‘I seem to remember she wasn’t overly impressed.’
Caron started reading adventure stories and mysteries for children when she was around 7 or 8 and graduated to Agatha Christie and Patricia Wentworth (her faves) when around 9 or 10. She has never looked back.
Caron has tried writing literary fiction – she was terrible at it. She has tried writing romance but got bored and killed everyone off. So now she sticks to what she loves – murder mysteries. The Dottie Manderson mysteries are set in the 1930s and feature a terminally-nosy well-to-do young woman, the Miss Gascoigne mysteries are set in the 1960s and a spin-off from the Dottie books, and the Friendship Can Be Murder series are set ‘now’ and written as diary entries by a posh woman, Cressida Barker-Powell, who plans to make the world a better place by getting rid of bad people, starting with her mother-in-law.
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