Thanks to Rachel’s Random Resources and the author for my gifted paperback to write my honest review.

A HOUSE ON THE EDGE
A DAUGHTER DRIVEN TO OBSESSION
A FORBIDDEN LOVE

Winter 1962. Amelia Tremayne has spent the past ten years in London trying to forget the lonely clifftop house where her father was killed. Tyler House was built shortly before the Second World War on Cornwall’s stormy coast by a wealthy German outsider. Its most unsettling feature is a vast glass dome that bends the light, casting twisted, elongated shadows across the walls.

Amelia’s father, Douglas Tremayne, a noted historian, was researching a controversial book about Tyler House’s Nazi origins – and its links to powerful figures in the local community.

As Amelia begins to uncover the truth about her father’s death, she is pulled into a web of buried secrets – and into a forbidden love that could destroy everything she holds dear.
INSPIRED BY A TRUE STORY

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My Review

House of Twisted Shadows is part of the Wild Cornwall series and can be read easily on its own. Historical fiction is a genre I really enjoy, so I was very eager to begin reading. I also really appreciate the fact that it is based on a true story!

1952, at Tyler House in Cornwall, Douglas Tremayne is found dead. The question is, was it accidental or was there more to it? Ten years later, his daughter, Amelia, returns to the house she has avoided since his death.

Her reason for returning is to find a manuscript he had been working on, one which exposed the Nazi origins of Tyler House and the links to powerful members of the local community. She is convinced his death has something to do with the manuscript. Amelia begins to dig up secrets that could put her in danger.

A captivating historical fiction thriller that kept me immersed from the first to the last page. I have not read the previous books, but it didn’t matter one bit. The storytelling is excellent, and the sense of place is strong. I really conjured the image of the Cornish coastal landscape in my mind’s eye. Such an atmospheric read; I felt like I had been transported right to Amelia so easily.

The deeper she digs, the darker the story turns. I kept turning those pages, and my reading speed increased the further I got. An expertly woven tale!

Praise for J.H.Mann:
‘Powerful, evocative and steeped in atmosphere – J.H. Mann vividly brings Cornwall’s wild, haunting landscape and its legends to life’ – Margaret James, bestselling author of the Denham Family Sagas
‘Vivid details of the landscape, eroding cliffs and crumbling house…the tension grips you and the atmospheric setting of Tyler House draws you in’ – Cheshire Novel Prize

Purchase Links
https://www.amazon.co.uk/House-Twisted-Shadows-Wild-Cornwall-ebook/dp/B0H2WRJDTJ/

https://www.amazon.com/House-Twisted-Shadows-Wild-Cornwall-ebook/dp/B0H2WRJDTJ/

Author Bio 

J.H.Mann is an award-winning journalist and writer living in the South West of England. His second novel, The Echoing Shore, was a Yeovil Literary Prize award winner and the Adult Fiction Winner of the 2025 Selfies Book Awards at the London Book Fair. His third novel, The Silver Tide, has just been shortlisted for the 2026 Selfies Book Awards. He has strong family links with Cornwall. His novels are inspired by the many stories told by his mother and father and his own experiences as a shore-based volunteer for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI). He lives with his wife, Nicola, and their lively whippet Patch.

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