Book 26 of 2018

So this is the 3rd book by Ruth Ware I've read (The Woman in Cabin 10 and In a Dark Dark Wood) and I was a little worried - because to be honest, I'd enjoyed both of the others very much, right up until the end.  In a Dark Dark Wood particularly had me reeled in - I checked out from the library where I work and I'd read a large chunk of it on my break and during lunch, and as soon as I got in my car to leave for the day I pulled it out intending to read a chapter or so and I wound up finishing the whole thing and going home late.  So there was no question of how readable, or how enthralling it was, but the ending really disappointed me.  And of course, because I had enjoyed so much of the majority of the book, that disappointment was even keener than it would have been otherwise.  Much of what I remember from the book is colored by that frustration.

So I was excited by this book because it sounded precisely like the sort of thing I love (secrets and a big English manor house), but I was wary, too.  So how was it?