"Knives Out" meets the "Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo": shifting motives, dead husbands, and a family willing to go to any length to protect their wealth. 

Ashby House and Tavistock, North Carolina were a very vivid setting. I've read a lot of thrillers set in English manor houses, but I actually think that the American setting was what made this book so interesting to me. Exploring the concept of the early American business tycoon and how that legacy would create so much entitlement and rot within the family made for a more interesting commentary on wealth. I also enjoyed the literary allusions to "Macbeth" and "Rebecca".